abstract: 'The failure of orthodox economic policies to generate growth and

  eradicate poverty has led to renewed interest in social policies. The

  return to `the social'' has seen contending conceptualizations of social

  policy, premised on different values, priorities and understandings of

  state responsibility, vying for influence. This article argues that the

  currently dominant agenda of social sector restructuring is likely to

  entrench gender inequalities in access to social services and income

  supports because of its failure to recognize the structures that

  underpin those inequalities, which are pervasive across labour markets

  and the unpaid care economy. Despite the `pro-poor'' and occasionally

  `pro-women'' rhetoric, the design of social policies remains largely

  blind to these gender structures. Addressing them would require a major

  rethinking of dominant approaches, placing redistribution more firmly at

  the heart of policy design, valuing and supporting unpaid care, and

  providing incentives for it to be shared more equally between women and

  men, and between families/houscholds and society more broadly.'
affiliation: 'Razavi, S (Corresponding Author), UNRISD, Palais Nat, CH-1211 Geneva,
  Switzerland.

  UNRISD, Palais Nat, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.'
author: Razavi, Shahra
author_list:
- family: Razavi
  given: Shahra
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00416.x
eissn: 1467-7660
files: []
issn: 0012-155X
journal: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
keywords-plus: 'HEALTH SECTOR REFORM; GENDER EQUALITY; WELFARE; CITIZENSHIP; SERVICE;

  STATE; WOMEN; WORK; TIME'
language: English
month: MAY
note: 'Global Conference on Unpaid Work and the Economy, Levy Econ Inst Bard

  Coll, Annandale on Hudson, NY, OCT 01-03, 2005'
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '71'
pages: 377-400
papis_id: 4f4d95001aad88f17292801e973f0120
ref: Razavi2007returnsocial
times-cited: '25'
title: The return to social policy and the persistent neglect of unpaid care
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000247314700001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '38'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies
year: '2007'