Public policies and social investment: what consequences for women’s social citizenship?

Beginning in the mid-1990s, the social investment perspective for social policy spread across the OECD world and into Latin America. Whereas the social policy paradigms of post-1945 citizenship regimes left space for claims-making by women’s movements in the name of equality, the social investment p...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jenson, Jane
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Estudos de Sociologia 2012
Materias:
Acceso en línea:http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/4929
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-048&d=article4929oai
Aporte de:
Descripción
Sumario:Beginning in the mid-1990s, the social investment perspective for social policy spread across the OECD world and into Latin America. Whereas the social policy paradigms of post-1945 citizenship regimes left space for claims-making by women’s movements in the name of equality, the social investment perspective reduces this space, and this despite the “gender awareness” that is integral to the perspective. This article assesses the extent to which and the ways in which the social investment perspective, despite being characterized by “gender awareness”, represents a threat to feminists project for equality in social citizenship.