Women's Studies 2260 Chapter Notes - Chapter Orloff: Social Reproduction, Social Forces, Corporatism
30 Jan 2020
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Social provisions (social assistance, public services) affect gender state. Welfare state = as interventions by the state in civil society to alter social forces. One school of thought emphasizes the ways in which state social policies regulate gender relations and contribute to the social reproduction of gender inequality through a variety of mechanisms. Men tend to claim rights as workers and women claims rights as families. Concerns over population decline may be the reason for strong rights for working women in. While weak states provided greater political opportunities for women"s political activism, they had fewer capacities for enacting and financing generous social policies and women"s movements were not yet strong enough to press for better outcomes. Programs for women are inferior to programs for men. When this happen, women gain more rights and are more likely to be in the workforce.
