Contents:
Introduction: Gender, welfare state and the market: towards a new division of labour?
Thomas P. Boje and
Arnlaug Leira Section 1: Women's Employment and Welfare Systems 1. Paid work, unpaid work and welfare: towards a framework for studying welfare state variation
Mary Daly 2. Citizenship, family policy and women's pattern of employment
Thomas P. Boje and
Anna-Lena Almqvist 3. Variation within post-fordist and liberal welfare state countries, women's work and social rights in Canada and the United States
Cecilia Benoit 4. Family policy and mothers' employment: cross-national varitions
Janet Gornick Section II. Family Policy - Work and Care in Different Welfare Systems 5. Gendered Policies: family obligations and social policies in Europe
Chiara Saraceno 6. Combining work and family: Nordic policy reforms in the 1990s
Arnlaug Leira 7. Child care policies in Japan: post-war developments and recent reforms
Ito Peng 8. Changing obligations and expectations: lone parenthood and social policy
Jane Millar 9. Solo mothers - how do they work and care in different welfare state regimes?
Jørgen Elm Larsen 10. Labour, gender, and the state
Evelyn Mahon