Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile. Focusing on four major reform episodes health, pensions, childcare, and maternity leave Silke Staab unveils the complex interplay of factors that have shaped the successes and failures of actors pursuing positive gender change in social policy. She shows that even in highly constrained settings positive gender change is possible, but that its scope and quality are bound to vary in response to sector-specific institutional constraints and opportunities.

Provides a thorough understanding of the gendered politics of gradual change in a highly constrained setting Focuses on Chile, a particularly interesting case where large-scale policy change is very difficult to achieve Combines an assessment of reform outcomes from a gender perspective and traces the political processes that have brought them about

Autorentext

Silke Staab is a research specialist at UN Women in New York, USA. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester, UK. Her work on gender, politics and social policy has been published in journals like Social Politics , Development and Change , and Third World Quarterly . She is also co-editor of Global Variations in Political and Social Economy of Care (with S. Razavi, 2013).

Inhalt

List of tables.- List of figures.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of acronyms.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Gender, Politics and Social Policy: A Feminist Institutionalist Perspective.- Chapter 2: (En)gendering Change in a Highly Constrained Setting.- Chapter 3: Health Reform (2002-2004).- Chapter 4: Pension Reform (2008).- Chapter 5: The Expansion of Childcare Services (2006-2010).- Chapter 6: Maternity Leave Reform (2011).- Chapter 7: Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change. Bibliography.- Index.