Gender And Welfare States In East Asia

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Gender and Welfare States in East Asia Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publish Date: 2014/01/22 Synopsis: "Is a Confucian cultural climate hostile to gender equality in families and public decision-making? What is the impact of gender equality legislation in East Asia? Approaches to these welfare regimes have ignored gender, while gendered accounts of welfare have neglected East Asia

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Comparisons with Western welfare states show strong economies with life expectancy in Japan and South Korea above those of Western social democracies but in contrast there are extremely large gender gaps in employment, earning,unpaid work and parliamentary representation and conjoined with this low fertility rates and and minimal public social spending on childcare and early education. In this volume, contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian contextacross...

^ Gender And Welfare States In East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan. NeweggBusiness. ISBN 9780230279087 (revised Feb 2017)