Razmerje med socialnimi, družinskimi in rodnostnimi politikami

slovenian

2018

volume 25, supl.

Evropski inštitut za komuniciranje in kulturo - EURICOM
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The article addresses the problem of the impact of family and fertility policies on the lives of women. Family and fertility policies are implicitly interconnected, since the particular protection of the family is often argued with the quality of life of children, regardless of the extent to which family policies are explicitly focused on promoting fertility (with specifically designed measures). Policies often address the family in a gender neutral way as a basic social unit, without recognising the historically constructed gender inequalities that reduce women to caregiving activities in and for the family. Depending on the attitude of the state to the family, women and the sharing of care responsibilities, various classifications and typologies of welfare state have developed. States can be typified according to the attitude to care work, according to the role of the male caregiver, or according to the welfare state models, where it is possible to assess the level of de- or re-familialistic policies of the state. The analysis of Slovene family policy shows that it is slowly gaining the characteristics of the pro-birth policy, irrespective of the political parties that run the ministry responsible to develop these policies, although the process is not linear. The results also reveal gender blindness of these policies, since, despite recognising gender inequalities, they do not address the problem in an appropriate way.

12.08.2021