Global Pandemic and the Veiled Crisis of Care in Turkey: Politics of Social Reproduction and Masculinist Restoration
Titelübersetzung:Globale Pandemie und die verschleierte Krise der Pflege in der Türkei: Politik der sozialen Reproduktion und maskulinistische Restauration
Autor/in:
Akkan, Başak
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4, S 31-49
Inhalt: Drawing on feminist debates about social reproduction and care while looking closely at gendered care politics and gender-insensitive containment measures, this article critically explores the politics of care in Turkey in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so by engaging with the theoretical debate over "social reproduction as a site of crisis" (Fraser 2016, 2017) and provides a contextualised reflection on the contested features of the crisis of care in a highly gendered political setting where a familialist regime defines gender relations. Because such regimes expect women to increase their burden of care in times of crisis, the pandemic’s gender-insensitive containment politics fundamentally strengthened the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. The article explores the combination of gendered vulnerabilities related to increased unpaid care work and degraded conditions experienced by care workers during lockdowns as a manifestation of the crisis of care in Turkey. Besides neoliberal capitalism, as suggested by Fraser, Turkey's rising authoritarian conservatism also characterises the crisis of care, which has implications for gender inequalities. Accordingly, this article invokes the conceptual framework of "masculinist restoration," as suggested by Kandiyoti (2016, 2019) and argues that women’s situatedness as care providers has been losing its positional power as a cultural element of the familialist regime in Turkey. Instead, this situatedness is being enforced as a political project that aims to institutionalise familialism to secure patriarchal domination in a society, which therefore pertains to a veiled crisis of care.
Long-term care and gender equality: fuzzy-set ideal types of care regimes in Europe
Autor/in:
Bartha, Attila; Zentai, Violetta
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 4, S 92-102
Inhalt: Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by different providers, to regulate the quality of services, and overall to recalibrate the work-life balance for men and women. These reforms are embedded in different family ideals of intergenerational ties and dependencies, divisions of responsibilities between state, market, family, and community actors, and backed by wider societal support to families to care for their elderly and disabled members. This article disentangles the different components of the notion of ‘(de)familialization’ which has become a crucial concept of care scholarship. We use a fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to investigate care policies and work-family reconciliation policies shaping long-term care regimes. We are making steps to reveal aggregate gender equality impacts of intermingling policy dynamics and also to relate the analysis to migrant care work effects. The results are explained in a four-pronged ideal type scheme to which European countries belong. While only Nordic and some West European continental countries are close to the double earner, supported carer ideal type, positive outliers prove that transformative gender relations in care can be construed not only in the richest and most generous welfare countries in Europe.
Schlagwörter:Europa; Europe; Pflege; caregiving; Familie; family; gender; Gleichheit; equality; Migrant; migrant; care regimes; familialization; fuzzy set ideal type analysis; long-term care
SSOAR Kategorie:Gesundheitspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Sammelrezension: Aktuelle Forschungen zu Mutterschaft und Elternschaft
Autor/in:
Visel, Stefanie
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 28 (2019) 1, S 153-156
Inhalt: Sammelrezension: 1) Marie Reusch, 2018: Emanzipation undenkbar? Mutterschaft und Feminismus. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. ISBN 978-3-89691-291-6. 2) Lisa Yashodhara Haller, 2018: Elternschaft im Kapitalismus: Staatliche Einflussfaktoren auf die
Arbeitsteilung junger Eltern. Frankfurt/M., New York: Campus Verlag. ISBN 978-359350-777-4. 3) Melanee Thomas, Amanda Bittner (Hg.), 2017: Mothers and Others: The Role of Parenthood in Politics. Vancouver: UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-3458-2.
Blood is Thicker than Water: Family Ties to Political Power Worldwide
Titelübersetzung:Blut ist dicker als Wasser: Familienbindungen und weltweite politische Machtbeziehungen
Autor/in:
Jalalzai, Farida; Rincker, Meg
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 4, S 54-72
Inhalt: This article analyzes the relevance of family ties for the recruitment of chief executives - presidents or prime ministers - with special emphasis on gender. Based on a cross-national data-set examining political chief executives from 2000-2017 in five world regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and North America), we test several hypotheses and present four main results. First, belonging to a political family (BPF), is an advantage to entering national executive positions around the world, for both democracies and non-democracies. Among those with a sizeable number of executives in this period, regions range from 9 percent (Africa) to 13 percent (Latin America and Europe) of executives BPF. Second, executives’ family ties are more powerful (with a previous chief executive) in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and more direct (with an immediate family member) in Asia and Africa. Across the globe, women only made up 6% of chief executives in the time period. Third, females who manage to become chief executives are more often BPF than their male counterparts, particularly in Asia and Latin America. Fourth, regardless of region, family ties nearly always originate from men, not women.
Schlagwörter:Führungskraft; executive; Präsident; president; Ministerpräsident; minister-president; politische Elite; political elite; Rekrutierung; recruitment; politisches System; political system; politische Macht; political power; gender-specific factors; Familie; family; internationaler Vergleich; international comparison; family ties; executive; political recruitment; gender, democracy
SSOAR Kategorie:politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 30 (2018) 1, S 96-119
Inhalt: Educational expansion, the massive increase of women’s labor force participation, and assortative mating have reduced asymmetries in educational achievements and in career resources between women and men in virtually every Western society. This paper provides an analysis of the association between partners' education, parenthood, and spouses' relative labor supply in East and West Germany. Education is considered from two angles: as an indicator for resources on the labor market or as an indicator for gender attitudes. We apply cross-sectional data from the 2011 German Microcensus, comprising 57,366 couple households. For our estimations, we use General Linear Models. Because of high case numbers, we are able to estimate several interaction effects in statistical powerful detail. We find that (1) a woman's share of paid work is higher, the higher she is educated; (2) women with higher education than their male partners realize higher shares of relative employment (in comparison to other women); (3) women rarely realize a share of 50% or higher on average in any educational composition; (4) especially young children have a huge impact on women's labor supply; and (5) women's comparative educational advantages are more important for their share of paid work in West than in East Germany. Neither interpretation of relative education can explain the overall picture of couples’ division of paid work alone. Depending on parenthood, the age of the youngest child in the household, and the regional context, either normative, or economic exchanges between partners seem to drive the association between relative education, and relative labor supply of women. We demonstrate the usefulness of two theoretical approaches of framing education as an explanatory concept.
Schlagwörter:Partnerschaft; partnership; Bildungsniveau; level of education; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Elternschaft; parenthood; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Familie; family; Federal Republic of Germany; alte Bundesländer; old federal states; neue Bundesländer; New Federal States
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Quelle: Österreichisches Institut für Familienforschung an der Universität Wien; Wien (Forschungsbericht / Österreichisches Institut für Familienforschung an der Universität Wien, 25), 2018. 111 S
Inhalt: Die in den letzten Jahrzehnten gestiegene Frauen- und in weiterer Folge Müttererwerbstätigkeit, gepaart mit einer Flexibilisierung in der Arbeitswelt mit unterschiedlichen Arbeitszeiten der einzelnen Familienmitglieder führt zu weniger gemeinsam verbrachter Zeit als Familie. Der nun vorliegende Forschungsbericht Nr. 25 untersucht die Zeitbelastungen österreichischer Familien und deren Wunsch nach mehr Familienzeit. In weiterer Folge werden unterschiedliche Arbeitszeitmodelle besprochen, die es Familien ermöglichen können, mehr Zeit miteinander zu verbringen und Praxisbeispiele auf staatlicher bzw. kommunaler und betrieblicher Ebene gegeben. Abschließend werden Vorschläge zur Novellierung im Arbeitszeitrecht auf gesetzlicher Ebene, in Kollektivverträgen und in Betriebsvereinbarungen dargelegt.
Schlagwörter:Arbeitszeit; Arbeitszeitpolitik; women's employment; Erwerbsarbeit; Belastung; Arbeitszeitflexibilität; working time flexibility; international comparison; Gesetzesnovellierung; Familie; stress; gainful work; family; internationaler Vergleich; amendment; working hours; policy on working hours; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Familienzeit
SSOAR Kategorie:Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen, Familienpolitik, Jugendpolitik, Altenpolitik
When working isn't enough: Family demographic processes and in-work poverty across the life course in the United States
Autor/in:
Van Winkle, Zachary; Struffolino, Emanuela
Quelle: Demographic Research, 39 (2018) , S 365-380
Inhalt: [Background:] In-work poverty, a phenomenon that engenders social exclusion, is exceptionally high in the United States. The literature on in-work poverty focuses on occupational polarization, human capital, demographic characteristics, and welfare generosity. However, we have no knowledge on the effects of family demographic processes on in-work poverty across individuals' life courses. [Objective:] We estimate the risk of in-work poverty in the United States over the life course as a function of family demographic processes, namely leaving the parental home, union formation and dissolution, and the transition to parenthood. [Methods:] We use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and fixed effects regression models with interactions between age and each family demographic process to estimate age-specific associations between these processes and the probability of in-work poverty. [Results:] In-work poverty is a common phenomenon across the life courses of our study cohort: 20% of individuals are at risk of in-work poverty at every age. However, the risk generally decreases for men and increases for women across the life course. Leaving the parental home, entering parenthood, and separation increase, while marriage decreases the risk of in-work poverty. While the associations between marital statuses and in-work poverty are stable over the life course, the associations between parental home leaving and fertility with in-work poverty vary by age. [Contribution:] Our findings demonstrate the importance of family demographic processes over and above traditional stratification factors for the risk of in-work poverty. Associations between family demographic processes and in-work poverty estimated for all age groups may be grossly underestimated.
Schlagwörter:Erwerbsbeteiligung; demographic factors; life career; Armut; Familie; wirtschaftliche Faktoren; Einkommensunterschied; USA; Elternschaft; exclusion; difference in income; family; economic factors; Exklusion; labor force participation; demographische Faktoren; Lebenslauf; gender-specific factors; Ungleichheit; parenthood; inequality; poverty; United States of America; family processes; working poor
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Bevölkerung
Quelle: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BIB); Wiesbaden (BiB Daten- und Methodenbericht, 1-2017), 2017. 128 S
Inhalt: In den Jahren 2012 und 2016 führte TNS Infratest Sozialforschung im Auftrag des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) in Wiesbaden Erhebungen zum Thema "Familienleitbilder in Deutschland" durch. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind kulturelle Leitbilder im Kontext von Familie, also subjektive und kollektiv geteilte Vorstellungen von bspw. einer "normalen Familie", einer "guten Partnerschaft", dem "richtigen Alter" zum Heiraten, der idealen Kinderzahl oder von Elternschaft. Grundgesamtheit ist die Wohnbevölkerung Deutschlands im Alter von 20 bis 39 Jahren. Für diese Population wurde auf Basis des Dual-Frame-Ansatzes (unter Einbezug von Mobilfunk-Telefonnummern) eine repräsentative Stichprobe gezogen und mittels CATI-Verfahren telefonisch interviewt. Befragt wurden 5.000 Personen im Zeitraum vom 27. August bis zum 15. November 2012. Ein Interview dauerte durchschnittlich etwa eine halbe Stunde. In der zweiten Erhebungswelle 2016 sollten möglichst viele dieser Zielpersonen erneut befragt werden. Kurzbefragungen in den Zwischenjahren 2013 und 2014 dienten dazu, das Panel stabil zu halten. Im Jahr 2016 konnten daher insgesamt 1.835 Personen erneut befragt werden. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, den Einfluss von normativ-kulturellen Leitbildern auf das generative Verhalten, Partnerschaften, die Rollen von Müttern und Vätern und andere Phänomene des Familienlebens zu analysieren. Durch das Längsschnittdesign soll untersucht werden, wie stabil Familienleitbilder im Lebensverlauf sind und welche Faktoren zu Änderungen beitragen. Außerdem soll geklärt werden, welchen Einfluss Familienleitbilder auf Familienformen, -entwicklungsverläufe und das Geburtenverhalten nehmen. Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert unter methodischen Aspekten die Feldarbeit der zweiten Erhebungswelle von der Finalisierung des Erhebungsinstrumentes mittels Pretest über die Bildung der Bruttostichprobe, die Realisierung der Interviews bis hin zu Gewichtung und Datenaufbereitung.
Inhalt: In the years 2012 and 2016 TNS Infratest Sozialforschung conducted surveys on the subject of "Familienleitbilder in Germany" on behalf of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) based in Wiesbaden. The study focuses on cultural leitbilder in the context of family issues, such as subjective and collectively shared conceptions for instance of a "normal" family, a "good" relationship, the "best" age to get married, the ideal number of children and of parenthood. The statistical population refers to the resident population of Germany between the ages of 20 and 39 years. For this population, a representative sample was generated on the basis of the dual-frame approach (inclusive of mobile phone numbers) and telephone interviews were conducted according to the CATI-method. 5,000 persons were interviewed in the time period between 27 August and 15 November 2012. An interview lasted approximately half an hour on the average. In the second wave collected in 2016 as many as possible of these subjects had to be interviewed again. Short surveys in the interim years 2013 and 2014 served to keep the panel stable. Hence, in 2016 it was possible to interview all in all 1,835 persons again. The aim of the study is to analyze the impact of normative-cultural leitbilder on generative behavior, relationships, parental roles and other phenomena of family life. The panel design of the study is intended to investigate the stability of family leitbilder in the life course and the factors that contribute to changes. Furthermore, the study is designed to explain the impact of family leitbilder on family structures, family developments and generative behavior. The report on hand documents in methodological terms the field phase of the second wave starting with the completion of the survey instrument by means of pretest, followed by the selection of the gross sample, implementation of the interviews, weighting and culminating in data processing.
Schlagwörter:Familie; family; Leitbild; example; kulturelle Faktoren; cultural factors; Partnerbeziehung; partner relationship; Heirat; wedding; Elternschaft; parenthood; Kinderwunsch; desire for children; generatives Verhalten; reproductive behavior; Familienforschung; family research; Privathaushalt; private household; Normativität; normativity; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Familienform; family structure; Befragung; survey; CATI; computer-assisted telephone interview; Federal Republic of Germany
Egalitäre Geschlechterverhältnisse in Familien und mütterliche Erwerbstätigkeit - Potenziale einer in der Paarbeziehung geteilten Elternschaft: Erfahrungen von Müttern, Vätern, Töchtern und Söhnen
Titelübersetzung:Egalitarian gender relationships in families and working mothers - the potentials of shared parenthood: experiences of mothers, fathers, daughters and sons
Autor/in:
Flaake, Karin
Quelle: Alte neue Ungleichheiten? Auflösungen und Neukonfigurationen von Erwerbs- und Familiensphäre. Opladen (Gender : Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Sonderheft), 2017, S 108-123
Inhalt: Auf der Basis einer qualitativ-empirischen Studie zu Familien, in denen sich die Eltern von Anbeginn an die Verantwortung und Zuständigkeit für die anfallenden Arbeiten - Betreuung und Versorgung der Kinder sowie Hausarbeiten - geteilt haben, werden die Potenziale dargestellt, die eine solche Lebensform für Teilhabe- und Entwicklungschancen beider Geschlechter sowie für die Veränderung tradierter elterlicher Rollen- und Geschlechterkonstruktionen haben kann.
Schlagwörter:Familie; family; Elternschaft; parenthood; Mutterschaft; motherhood; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; Kinderbetreuung; child care; Chancengleichheit; equal opportunity; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; parent-child relationship; Familienarbeit; family work; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2016) 70, S 14-20
Inhalt: Patients' viewpoints are commonly used to assess quality of care in diverse healthcare organizations. This permits managerial decisions to be made based on knowledge rather than conjecture. The purpose of the current study is to investigate quality gap of family health care through measuring differences between clients' perceptions and expectations at Kashan city health centers in Iran.Methodology: A cross-sectional design was applied in 2013. The study sample was composed of 384 women clients of family health services randomly selected from Kashan city health centers. The SERVQUAL questionnaire was used for data collection. Service quality gap was measured by computing the difference between the rating respondents assign to expectations and perceptions statements. For pair wise comparison of the expectations and perceptions the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was used. Internal consistency of the scale was confirmed with Cronbach's Alpha coefficients (.81 for expectations and .84 for perceptions).Findings: In all dimensions of the services a significant (P<0.001) negative quality gap was observed. The maximum quality gap was in the tangibility (-0.60±0.37) and the minimum one was in the responsiveness (-0.41±0.31) dimension. The findings of the research demonstrated that there was negative gap between clients' expectations and perceptions in all dimensions of the services. Thus, family health care managers should apply improvements in all five dimensions of the services.
Schlagwörter:quality; perception; Iran; Gesundheit; Erwartung; Iran; Management; Wahrnehmung; health care; Familie; Gesundheitsversorgung; expectation; public health services; Qualität; woman; management; family; health; Gesundheitsdienst; Patient; patient