Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part III)

Friday, 11 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES003 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC06 Family Research (host committee)
RC19 Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy

Language: English

This panel expects to contribute to ongoing research and discussions regarding ‘new family policy’ meaning new understandings and forms of provision to provide support to the caring function of increasingly diverse and complex family units. The three broad areas we include under the rubric of family policy are cash transfers to families and children, parental leave provision and childcare services. We welcome papers that critically question the universalising appeal of work-life balance policies mostly designed to cater for the needs of the ‘nuclear family’ and focus on how policy responds to diversity and change in family life especially with a gender and intersectional lense. Examples of such diversity are lone parent families, families in transition, families with a severely ill or disabled child, multi-generational and large families. From the perspective of policy, we are interested in papers that address the need for inclusive, flexible and complementary policy designs and mechanisms. Research looking at the outcomes of specific family policy is also of interest. We welcome contributions that employ different theoretical (such as for instance feminist interpretations of social policy reform) and analytical frameworks and adopt different methodological approaches. We also welcome single country cases and comparative approaches both from the Global North and South.
Session Organizers:
Ivana DOBROTIC, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Margarita LEÓN BORJA, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
Oral Presentations
Pre-Motherhood Social Inequalities and Their Effect on Work-Life Balance
Teresa JURADO GUERRERO, UNED, Spain; Victoria BOGINO, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain; Irene LAPUERTA, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), Spain
New Approaches to the Study of Work-Family Balance in Spain
Almudena MORENO MINGUEZ, University of Valladolid, Spain; Manuel MEJIAS, University of Valladolid, Spain; Sara GARCÍA CUESTA, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Choosing between Alternatives: Lived Experiences of Women Heading Mother-Only Families in Spain
Adriana OFFREDI RODRIGUEZ, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Livelihood Choices, Gender and Fertility in Rural China
Yuying TONG, USA; Mengke ZHAO, China
Distributed Papers