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What Works in Improving Gender Equality - Kirstein Rummery, Craig McAngus, Alcuin Edwards

What Works in Improving Gender Equality

International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy
Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2021
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-3048-6 (ISBN)
CHF 22,65 inkl. MwSt
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.
Publishing rationale
•A topical short which fits with our existing list
•Draws on original and international ESRC research
•Written by respected authors with a clear vision for the project
•Has a clear focus on what works and policy recommendations
Unique selling point:
This is the only book that provides accessible information on international best practice in childcare and longterm care, and discusses what works and why in achieving gender equality and how it can be applied elsewhere

Kirstein Rumery is a professor of social policy at the University of Stirling, a senior fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change, and co-director of the Centre on Gender and Feminist Studies. Craig McAngus is a research fellow at the University of Stirling and fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change. Alcuin Edwards has worked for over 25 years as a policy officer and advisor to the UK government on health policy and children’s policy.

1. Why Does Gender Equality and Care Policy Matter?
2. Making Care Policy in the UK: Understanding the Role of Gender Equality
3. Applying the Nordic model: What Works in Sweden, Denmark and Iceland?
4. Applying the Market and Family Model: What Works in Germany and the Netherlands?
5. Developing Policy in a Context of Devolution: The Role of the Third Sector and Activists
6. Implementing Policy: What Could Work in the UK and the Devolved Administrations?
7. Conclusions and Policy Recommendation

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 50 Tables, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-4473-3048-X / 144733048X
ISBN-13 978-1-4473-3048-6 / 9781447330486
Zustand Neuware
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