What Works in Improving Gender Equality ─ International Best Practice in Childcare and Long Term Care Policy

Drawing on comparative research from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, and the Netherlands, this book provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means across countries, what the implications of this meaning are for childcare and long-term care policies, and how other nations’ best practices can be adapted in any nation. It provides realistic and feasible policy solutions for a variety of issues, from what role individuals, families, communities, the market, and the state can play, to what difficulties might need to be overcome in different policy contexts. The first book to collect international best practices in childcare and long-term care, it discusses not only what works in achieving gender equality, but why.

Kirstein Rummery is professor of social policy and codirector of the Centre on Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling as well as a senior fellow at the collaborative Centre on Constitutional Change.Craig McAngus is based at the University of Stirling an associate of the Centre on Constitutional Change.Alcuin Edwards works in the UK Department of Health and has over twenty years of experience in policy making.