TY  - JOUR
A1  - Garritzmann, Julian L.
A1  - Schwander, Hanna
T1  - Gender and attitudes toward welfare state reform: Are women really social investment promoters?
T2  - Journal of European social policy
N2  - This article contributes to the study of the demand side of welfare politics by investigating gender differences in social investment preferences systematically. Building on the different functions of social investment policies in creating, preserving, or mobilizing skills, we argue that women do not support social investment policies generally more strongly than men. Rather, women demand, in particular, policies to preserve their skills during career interruptions and help to mobilize their skills on the labour market. In a second analytical step, we examine women’s policy priorities if skill preservation and mobilization come at the expense of social compensation. We test our arguments for eight Western European countries with data from the INVEDUC survey. The confirmation of our arguments challenges a core assumption of the literatures on the social investment turn and women’s political realignment. We discuss the implication of our findings in the conclusion.
KW  - social investment
KW  - gender
KW  - welfare state reform
KW  - attitudes
KW  - public opinion
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62213
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-622139
SN  - 1461-7269
N1  - The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Hanna Schwander would like to thank the Swiss National Science Foundations for generous funding of the project ‘Disentangeling the gender vote gap – a refined analysis of womens political realignment’ (PZ00P1 161234). Julian L. Garritzmann received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
SP  - 253
EP  - 266
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -