Welfare state reform has been a focus of domestic policy making in many European
countries in recent years. Representing almost a third of the EU population and two …

In the 2000s Austrian and German lawmakers introduced policies encouraging families to
outsource domestic work to support employment of wives and mothers. These departures …

Today, what is called “Gender Mainstreaming” is the main strategy of the European Union to
work toward gender equality. The definitions of Gender Mainstreaming explicitly include …

The life course perspective—often neglected in labour market and social policy research—,
is now very much present in European labour market policy, though sometimes implicitly …

For most European countries the aim of the European employment strategy (2000)—
boosting employment among women—has meant promoting employment among mothers …

Three actors–state, market, and family–are the main providers of social welfare in modern
societies. Changes in this 'welfare mix'require support from the population, but citizens' …

Are welfare states and, specifically, the US and Germany, becoming more similar; and what
does that mean for their respective gender regimes? This paper looks at the gender regimes …

This article investigates employment patterns in couple households—and in particular their
variability according to the presence and age of children. The aim of the comparative …

The present paper tries to locate the category gender in terms of social theory. Thus, the
form of functional differentiation of modern society provides the structural framework for …