Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality

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Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality

SAXONBERG, steven

Basic information

Original name

Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality

Authors

SAXONBERG, steven (752 Sweden, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION, HOBOKEN, WILEY, 2009, 0144-5596

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

50400 5.4 Sociology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.857

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/09:00107129

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00687.x

UT WoS

000271252100010

Keywords in English

Gender; Family policy; Freedom of choice

Changed: 29/4/2020 14:20, Mgr. Michal Petr

Abstract

In the original language

This article argues that policies that promote gender equality actually also increase freedom of choice. Thus, despite the neo-liberal criticism that welfare policies limit choices and privatization and market solutions increase freedom of choice, this article concludes that market-liberal welfare regimes offer less choice than the Nordic type of social-democratic welfare regimes, which have openly striven to promote gender equality. They do so by making it easier for mothers to choose to work (by making day care available and making it easier for fathers to stay at home with children) and by giving fathers the ability to choose to spend more time with children. However, within the realm of such policies, it is still possible to offer more or less freedom of choice, for example, by making parental leaves either extremely flexible or rigid in how they are utilized. Interestingly, it turns out that, in the real world, policies that promote gender equality even offer greater freedom of choice for the group of women considered to be 'family oriented' as well as for lesbian and homosexual couples.

Cite

SAXONBERG, steven. Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality. SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION. HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2009, vol. 43, No 6, p. 666-679. ISSN 0144-5596. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00687.x.

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SAXONBERG, steven. Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality. \textit{SOCIAL POLICY \&{} ADMINISTRATION}. HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2009, vol.~43, No~6, p.~666-679. ISSN~0144-5596. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00687.x.

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