A Welfare State Paradox: State Interventions and Women’s Employment Opportunities in 22 Countries1

By Hadas Mandel, Moshe Semyonov. American Journal of Sociology, 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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A World of Difference: International Trends in Women's Economic Status (2011, positive): “…feminists and progressive activists (e.g., generous parental leaves) appear to increase gender inequality with respect to occupational distributions and wages at the same time that they decrease it with respect to labor force participation rates (Pettit & Hook 2009; Mandel & Semyonov 2005, 2006).”
Winners and losers: The consequences of welfare state policies for gender wage inequality (2012, positive): “…family-friendly policies in particular, exacerbate women’s occupational attainments by inhibiting their access to powerful and desirable positions (Mandel and Semyonov, 2006; 2005; Mandel and Shalev, 2009b).2 They argue that the very policies which support mothers by insulating them from labour…”
Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2015, neutral): “Second, women’s representation in managerial positions is lower in the UK than in the US (Mandel and Semyonov 2006; Pettit and Hook 2009).”
Do Employers Prefer Fathers? Evidence from a Field Experiment Testing the Gender by Parenthood Interaction Effect on Callbacks to Job Applications (2017, neutral): “In research on gender differences, fatherhood premiums, and motherhood penalties in the areas of wages and other career-related outcomes, employers’ discriminatory behaviours are often argued to be a possible explanation of observed gender gaps (Mandel and Semyonov, 2006; Gangl and Ziefle, 2009; Byg”
Parental Leave—Possibility or Trap? Does Family Leave Length Effect Swedish Women’s Labour Market Opportunities? (2011, positive): “…and Zweimüller, forthcoming; Rønsen and Sundström, 2002), and perhaps partly as a consequence, research indicates that women in countries with more extensive parental leave rights have greater difficulties reaching and maintaining powerful occupational positions (Mandel and Semyonov, 2005; 2006).”
Is There a Career Penalty for Mothers' Time Out?: A Comparison of Germany, Sweden and the United States (2009, neutral): “Hence, highly educated women with strong career commitment are assumed to benefit from being in a country such as the United States, as statistical discrimination against all women in such a context should be small (Mandel and Shalev 2006).”
Legislating a Woman’s Seat on the Board: Institutional Factors Driving Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors (2014, positive): “National welfare states play a major role in determining women’s economic activities, labor market participation, and occupational opportunities (Orloff 1996; Mandel and Semyonov 2006).”