The adult worker model family, gender equality and care: the search for new policy principles and the possibilities and problems of a capabilities approach

摘要: There is evidence that policy-makers in most Western welfare states are moving towards a new set of assumptions about the contributions men and women make to families, based on an adult worker model. This paper first examines this shift policy at EU level goes argue there real limits pursuit full model commodification care. In respect gender equality, turn raises issue terms conditions which such made, particularly valuing sharing unpaid work The final part possibilities offered by capabilities approach addressing these issues.