Restructuring of pension systems and gender arrangements in Germany and Great Britain
Titelübersetzung:Restrukturierung des Rentensystems und Geschlechterarrangements in Deutschland und Großbritannien
Autor/in:
Meyer, Traute; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit
Quelle: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS); Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert; Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Soziale Ungleichheit - kulturelle Unterschiede"; Frankfurt am Main, 2006. S 1407-1416
Inhalt: "Over the last decades pension reforms have had to address the change of the gender arrangements in many European countries from the traditional housewife marriagetowards modernised forms. This brings with it a need for a re-structuring of pensions away from housewife based towards individualised systems, which recognise periods of leave and part-time work of parents. The aim of this paper is toassess in what way such new demands were considered in pension reforms. We ask to what extent they survived along side other pressures and what contradictions andnew problems of gender inequality have developed in pension systems as a consequence. The paper compares Germany and Great Britain, societies with similar gender arrangements and modernisation paths, which at the same time represent different welfare regimes." (text extract)
Schlagwörter:problem; international comparison; welfare state; reform; Federal Republic of Germany; Rente; Großbritannien; sozialer Wandel; woman; Rentenversicherung; Reform; pension; internationaler Vergleich; Problem; Great Britain; social change; pension insurance; Wohlfahrtsstaat