Gender Down Under: Welfare State Restructuring in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand |
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Authors: | Sheila Shaver |
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Affiliation: | Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | Beginning in the mid-1980s, the governments of both Australia and New Zealand embarked upon programmes of economic reform. In the same period, they have also undertaken extensive, if incremental, restructuring of their social policy gender models, away from the male breadwinner family form and towards dual-earner partnerships based on individualized entitlement. This paper examines and compares this restructuring. It aims to identify those respects in which similarities and differences in this restructuring express enduring cross-national differences in social policy, and in what respects simply reflect differences in the timing of otherwise similar developments. |
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Keywords: | Gender Social policy Australia New Zealand |
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