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Issue №13. December 2007

Engendering Pension Policy in Different Welfare Regimes

Chen Fen-ling

Associate Professor, College of Humanities and of Social Sciences, Yuan Ze University.

Welfare schemes for old-aged income security are important systems to prevent the elderly living in poor. Every country employs various kinds of old-age payments to keep the living quality of the elderly. Feminists regard pension provision, like other kinds of social insurance schemes, as a product of patriarchal welfare states. Because the qualifications and payments of pension are usually earnings-related and prefer full-time, long working history workers, women are vulnerable to the current pension system. As women’s traditional roles are separated from the labor market, many women’s careers are interrupted by child care and family care responsibility. Even if women stay in the labor market for the whole life, wage discrimination and other kinds of discrimination between genders still exist. Gender inequality of the welfare system is well known, but researchers rarely attempt to measure the gap between genders in welfare. The author tries to determine which form of a welfare system offers a gender equality mechanism. The article also analyzes “gender traps” in welfare schemes and the ways in which welfare schemes reproduce, reinforce, widen or weaken gender inequality.

Keywords

Old-age social security, old-age pension, welfare, feminism, patriarchal welfare state, wage discrimination, “gender traps” in welfare schemes, gender inequality, existing welfare system.

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