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The relationship between family and work: tensions, paradigms and directives
[working paper]
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University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)
Abstract After decades of promoting the reconciliation of work and family life from a gender-equality perspective, to date discourses and related social policy paradigms replace and reframe the once European agenda on gender-equality and put the gender issue in a much broader policy agenda of new social risk... view more
After decades of promoting the reconciliation of work and family life from a gender-equality perspective, to date discourses and related social policy paradigms replace and reframe the once European agenda on gender-equality and put the gender issue in a much broader policy agenda of new social risks. This working paper first states that a gender-neutral social policy on reconciliation of work and family life stagnates because of four crucial dilemmas. New social policy paradigms have developed since the 1990s, each having particular assumptions on risk-sharing, public and private responsibility and the position of the individual vis-à-vis the state and the community. These paradigms will be analysed in relation to the European Union policies regarding reconciliation of work and family life. We will detect some traces of these paradigms in the Lisbon agreements and its amendments. We will conclude that indeed the gender-equality agenda, as well as family life, has been submitted to the new convention of the competitive knowledge based economy; The social investment paradigm is the most prominent of the three paradigms in this new agenda, however it is mixed up with elements from the other paradigms and therefore current policies agendas lack coherence.... view less
Keywords
EU; social policy; gender role; international agreement; family; affirmative action; gender mainstreaming
Classification
Social Policy
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
European Politics
Method
applied research
Free Keywords
new social risks; gender dilemmas; policy paradigms; EU reconciliation policies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
City
Edinburgh
Page/Pages
50 p.
Series
Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe, REC-WP 11/2009
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications