This article argues that gender equality programmes in universities and colleges may
operate as a form of 'moderate feminism', producing contradictions through simultaneously …

What explains the surprising growth of work-family policies in several West European
countries? Much research on the welfare state emphasizes its institutional stickiness and …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. This book highlights the way in which …

The introduction of Universal Credit, a new social assistance benefit for working age people
in the UK, constitutes radical welfare reform and entails a significant intensification and …

This review forms part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's programme to develop a set of
evidence-based anti-poverty strategies for the UK. The remit was to identify and analyse …

Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British
government, but relatively little is known about the day-to-day functioning of these great …

For generations, women have experienced disadvantage in the social security system. This
book analyses fresh empirical evidence which demonstrates the gendered impacts of the …

In industrialized countries women have increasingly become a target group for active labour
market policies, or 'activation'. However, to date, the burgeoning literature on activation has …

This article examines gender discourses embedded in gender equality policies in the health
sector. Gender mainstreaming was first adopted by a number of international and …

Promoting certain kinds of gender equality—such as promoting and supporting female
participation in paid work or male engagement with unpaid care work—is costly. Yet, there …