Gender and welfare states in East Asia : Confucianism or gender equality? / edited by Sirin Sung, Queen's University Belfast, UK and Gillian Pascall, University of Nottingham, UK.

"Is a Confucian cultural climate hostile to gender equality in families and public decision-making? What is the impact of gender equality legislation in East Asia? Approaches to these welfare regimes have ignored gender, while gendered accounts of welfare have neglected East Asia. Comparisons with W...

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