TY - JOUR AU - Zimmerman, Mary PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - GENDER AND SOCIAL POLICY JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/gender-and-social-policy SP - AB - This course considers gender divisions and inequalities in relation to the social policies of contemporary Western welfare states and their social, cultural and historical underpinnings. State policies are viewed as major forces in shaping the gendered lives of women and men and in maintaining gender inequalities. The central problem we will be examining throughout the semester is to identify and understand how state policies contribute to gendering the daily lives of men and women. ER -