The Widows of the Gasworks: Gendered Path Dependency and the Early Dutch Welfare State
In this article the focus is on the gender implications of the early Dutch welfare state and the status of male and female breadwinners and their dependents in social insurance and poor relief in the Netherlands around 1900. Barbara Nelson's model of two gendered channels (workmen's compensation acts versus mothers' aid laws) in early U.S. social policy serves as a point of reference. The author concludes that, compared to the United States, social policy in the Netherlands did not start as extremely gendered. The assumption of Dutch second‐wave feminists that the Dutch welfare state was male... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2003 |
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Oxford University Press
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| Schlagwörter: | Article |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26633775 |
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In this article the focus is on the gender implications of the early Dutch welfare state and the status of male and female breadwinners and their dependents in social insurance and poor relief in the Netherlands around 1900. Barbara Nelson's model of two gendered channels (workmen's compensation acts versus mothers' aid laws) in early U.S. social policy serves as a point of reference. The author concludes that, compared to the United States, social policy in the Netherlands did not start as extremely gendered. The assumption of Dutch second‐wave feminists that the Dutch welfare state was male breadwinner–minded from the very beginning does not hold water.