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What Works in Improving Gender Equality International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rummery, Kirstein.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource 190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- What Works in Improving Gender Equality
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol Policy Press 2021
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means and how we can achieve it by adapting best practices in childcare and long term care policies from other countries.
- Contents:
- What could make it likely that transferring the Partnership Model would fail to deliver improved gender equality?
- Which model, and which aspects of that model, should policymakers invest in to stand the greatest chance of improving gender equality?
- Five Long-term care and gender equality
- Introduction
- Universal Model of long-term care provision
- Partnership Model of long-term care provision
- How do these models lead to better gender equality?
- How do the different elements of these models work?
- The Universal Model
- The Partnership Model
- What aspects of these models could be transferred to other national contexts?
- What do we know about policy transfer? Which policies are likely to fail or succeed in different contexts, and why?
- Which elements of the Universal Model could be successfully transferred and lead to improved gender equality?
- What could make it likely that transferring the Universal Model would fail to deliver improved gender equality?
- Which elements of the Partnership Model could be successfully transferred and lead to improved gender equality?
- Four Childcare and gender equality
- Universal Model of childcare provision
- Partnership Model of childcare policy
- The Partnership Model
- What are the ideas, institutions and actors that make these models work?
- What could make these models not work to improve gender equality?
- Childcare, long-term care and gender equality
- Responsibilities of the state, the market, communities, families and individuals
- Advantages
- Drawbacks
- Key lessons and transferable features
- Notes of caution
- Achieving gender equity?
- Summary
- Three The Partnership Model of care policy
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- Childcare, long-term care and gender equality
- Key transferable features
- Summary
- Front Cover
- What Works in Improving Gender Equality: International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Tables
- One Gender equality and care policy: why look comparatively?
- How to use this book
- What do we mean by gender equality?
- Childcare and gender equality
- Long-term care and gender equality
- Why look at policies comparatively?
- A note on methods and findings
- Two The Universal Model of care policy
- Denmark
- Iceland
- Sweden
- Notes:
- What are the ideas, institutions and actors that make these models work?
- Description based upon print version of record.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-3048-X
- OCLC:
- 1244624916
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