Feminist- social policy
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- Created on: 28-04-13 18:56
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- Feminist - social policy
- Social policy to reinforce patriarchal ideas about roles
- e.g. tax and benefits policies may assume husbands are the main wage-earners
- = women find it difficult to claim benefits in their own right = reinforces women's dependence on their husbands
- LEONARD - although maternity leave policies benefit women they also reinforce patriarchy in the family
- by encouraging assumption that childcare is responsibility of mothers
- EVALUATION
- Not all policies directed at maintaining patriarchy e.g. equal pay, discrimination laws etc.
- Whether or not social policy promotes patriarchy depends on the country
- DREW - found in more equal societies family policy based on equality between men + women
- Social policy to reinforce patriarchal ideas about roles
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