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Long-term care and gender equality: fuzzy-set ideal types of care regimes in Europe
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Abstract Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by diff... view more
Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by different providers, to regulate the quality of services, and overall to recalibrate the work-life balance for men and women. These reforms are embedded in different family ideals of intergenerational ties and dependencies, divisions of responsibilities between state, market, family, and community actors, and backed by wider societal support to families to care for their elderly and disabled members. This article disentangles the different components of the notion of ‘(de)familialization’ which has become a crucial concept of care scholarship. We use a fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to investigate care policies and work-family reconciliation policies shaping long-term care regimes. We are making steps to reveal aggregate gender equality impacts of intermingling policy dynamics and also to relate the analysis to migrant care work effects. The results are explained in a four-pronged ideal type scheme to which European countries belong. While only Nordic and some West European continental countries are close to the double earner, supported carer ideal type, positive outliers prove that transformative gender relations in care can be construed not only in the richest and most generous welfare countries in Europe.... view less
Keywords
Europe; caregiving; family; gender; equality; migrant
Classification
Health Policy
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
care regimes; familialization; fuzzy set ideal type analysis; long-term care
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 92-102
Journal
Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 4
Issue topic
Division of labour within families, work-life conflict and family policy
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed