CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Kiss-Pal, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Care Matters: The Effects of Family Policy Systems on Women's Political Participation |
| Summary | Women’s inclusion is lagging in the political sphere, whereas their academic and economic achievements have been steadily increasing. This research argues that failure of resolving how care work is distributed results in hampering women’s political participation; and thus, family policy systems are major mechanisms that influence whether women engage in political activities. It is established by using qualitative comparative analysis that most OECD countries still do not invest in gender inclusive social policies to help in women’s care work. The implication of this finding on political participation is probed by multilevel logistic regressions, where family policy systems are taken as the contextual factors that mitigate crucial individual resources and predictors. Findings suggest that family policy models that do not invest in gender equality measures contribute to the political participation of women on welfare, but they have negative effects on both working and domestic women. On the contrary, gender inclusive policy systems that invest in institutions to help with childcare and incentivize men to share care work attenuate most individual differences among women and increase their participation collectively. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/kiss-pal_anna.pdf |
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