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KMID : 1124020090250030001
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Korean Social Security Studies
2009 Volume.25 No. 3 p.1 ~ p.27
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Reform of Work-Family Reconciliation Policies and Women`s Social Right: A Case Study of United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands
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Kim Young-Mi
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Abstract
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This paper examines how women’s social rights have been restructured in the reform of work-family reconciliation policies, focusing changes in United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands. By doing so, this study analyses the recent changes in the bases of entitlement of women’s social rights, and their implications for gender dimension of citizenship rights. The postwar British, German and Netherlands’s welfare state was founded on the basis of concepts of citizenship that assumed division of labor between the sexes in family life and has had characteristics of strong male breadwinner model. Therefore, women’s social rights have been based mainly on the status of mothers/ wives, and the social right as a worker have been underdeveloped. However, recently radical changes has occurred in United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands. The governments of this three countries have committed to reinforcement of women’s social rights as a worker by expansion of child care facilities, advancements in parental leave policies. The changes can broadly be summarized as an emphasis on employment(of married women, particularly), an emphasis on responsibility of parents(especially, fatherhood) and an emphasis on social partnership within the framework of the mixed economy of welfare. Despite limitation, the reform of work-family reconciliation policies in three countries certainly marked a significant progress towards a more individualistic concept of citizenship the promotes women’s
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KEYWORD
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welfare state, work-family reconciliation, women`s social right, women`s Labour rights, care work, welfare mix, parental choice
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