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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 198 pages. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
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- 1. Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia; Sirin Sung and Gillian Pascall2. Work-family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime?; Sirin Sung3. Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women's Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime; Sook-Yeon Won4. Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan; Jessie Wu5. Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities in Rural China; Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen R. Fisher and Ping Guo6. Confucian Welfare: A barrier to the Gender Mainstreaming of Domestic Violence Policy in Hong Kong; Lai Ching Leung7. Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash Against 'Gender Freedom'; Kimio Ito8. Prime Ministers' Discourse in Japan's Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than Confucianism; Emiko Ochiai and Kenichi Johshita 9. Conclusion: Confucianism or Gender Equality?; Gillian Pascall and Sirin Sung.