Borchost Feminist Thinking About the Welfare State

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Borchost Feminist Thinking about the Welfare State
Question: How have feminist scholars' studies on the welfare state and their analyses influenced research on the welfare state?
Evidence: Borchost also differentiates gender-friendly welfare states and gender equality where the feminist approach to policies and social movements challenge the dominant narratives on how best to achieve equality. In the Nordic region, the states work more closely with the feminist movements to advance feminist concerns, and feminist struggles have influenced the promotion of social democracy and welfare. There are differences in welfare states and welfare policies, but feminist paradigms have also provided new insights on welfare states.  For example, feminist scholars often focus on single mothers in their analyses on welfare states and the male breadwinner role, which provides insights into how state policies influence social welfare outcomes. The states intervene in promoting social welfare, but there are differences in how they consider the place of gender in welfare states.
Weakness: While the article was a feminist critique of welfare states, the writer did not address the differences between feminist scholars and policy-makers to promote gender equality in welfare states. Addressing what affects access opportunities in welfare states would also have provided more insights into gaps in feminist research on welfare states and policies.
Gornick and Meyers 2008 Creating gender-egalitarian societies
Question: What policies would advance greater gender egalitarianism?
Evidence: Most research on work and family focuses on women. Still, Gornick and Meyers recognize the need to focus on men if there will be a successful promotion of gender equality and gender-egalitarian soc...