abstract: 'Cross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender

  inequality tend to overlook socio-economic divisions among women. This

  article challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have

  uniform effects on the economic attainments of women, arguing that the

  impact of state intervention is necessarily conditioned by women''s

  relative advantage or disadvantage in the labour market. Based on

  Luxembourg Income Study microdata for 21 advanced countries, the paper

  analyses gender wage gaps among highly skilled and low skilled men and

  women. The findings suggest that welfare state policies interact with

  socio-economic position: they limit the economic rewards of highly

  skilled women, but do not adversely affect, and by some measures

  actually benefit, those who are less skilled. Highlighting the

  advantages and disadvantages of social policies for different groups of

  women, the article concludes that more research is needed to explore

  differentiated approaches to reconciling work and family, rather than

  addressing universal work-family tensions.'
affiliation: 'Mandel, H (Corresponding Author), Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Sociol, IL-69978
  Tel Aviv, Israel.

  Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Sociol, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel.'
author: Mandel, Hadas
author-email: hadasm@post.tau.ac.il
author_list:
- family: Mandel
  given: Hadas
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/esr/jcq061
files: []
issn: 0266-7215
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
keywords-plus: '7 INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; SEX SEGREGATION; FAMILY

  POLICIES; LABOR-MARKETS; EARNINGS; REGIMES; GAP; PAY; MOTHERS'
language: English
month: APR
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '69'
orcid-numbers: Mandel, Hadas/0000-0002-2521-0069
pages: 241-262
papis_id: 6b8483615d157f42d9cb9f043208ba72
ref: Mandel2012winnerslosers
researcherid-numbers: Mandel, Hadas/AAC-8497-2022
times-cited: '94'
title: 'Winners and Losers: The Consequences of Welfare State Policies for Gender
  Wage Inequality'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000302304800006
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '63'
volume: '28'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2012'