Women, Power And Policy

Women, Power and Policy offers a powerful new analysis of policy-making for gender equality, in particular childcare services. It provides an overview and revision of nondecision-making theory and offers the first comprehensive application of this model to the marginalisation of policy for women.This book provides an accessible account of childcare policies in Britain and beyond. It challenges pluralistic notions by uncovering the reasons why certain policy interests are marginalised, and uses a feminist re-examination of nondecision-making theory to discuss the relationship between policy and gender. In examining the progress of women's initiatives and childcare, Marchbank considers subjects including:
-- the history of childcare policy, particularly during the Second World War
-- childcare policy and women's economic activity across Europe
-- the covert and overt barriers to equality-based policy-making
-- strategies and counter-strategies for policy-makers and campaigners
-- detailed, analytic case studies of actual policy-making.This accessible, engaging text is invaluable for students and academics in areas including women's studies, politics and social policy.