Working Mothers and the Welfare State

Kimberly-Clark's research approach is a policy-centered approach focusing specifically on gender policy. In this book, she tries to explain through historical comparative methods, "religious practices and religious conflict are the key to the formation of welfare state." He emphasized the relationship between religion as a political force, gender and family ideology, the nature of political party groups and party competition, women's movements, changes in policy heritage, social structure.

This article is a groundbreaking research aimed at identifying changes in multinational welfare states. Specifically, the authors identified three major welfare state clusters: liberalists, corporateists - nationalists, and social democrats. This typology provides a preliminary classification of Western welfare states. The authors identified key indicators of changes in welfare, such as economic, historical and social differences. This article provides a preliminary basis for typology in welfare states and has been extended in complementary research.

A: In most states, we are fundamentally changing welfare programs so as to emphasize work. Prior to welfare reform, the main purpose of the National Welfare Plan was simply to give money. But now the information that my family receives when applying for benefits is that they need a job, the "welfare" program helps them find jobs and they have up to five years cash benefits You can earn. As a result, welfare volume has decreased by more than 60%. This is because as many as 2 million mothers join the labor force, women's household incomes increase, welfare income decreases, and child poverty rate decreases year by year between 1993 and 2000. By the end of the 1990s, the number of poor children in poor households of black and female households reached the lowest level ever. Even after the recession in 2001, even after four years of poverty in children, the poverty rate of children remained 20% lower than in 1993.