This article considers some of the changes and continuities in social protection in Latin
America through a focus on the ways in which motherhood is positioned as key to the …

In order to provide a coherent perspective of gender differences in the world of work, this
paper argues, the many intersections of paid and unpaid work must be brought to light. It is …

This paper has three main objectives. First, to describe the principal elements of new
approaches to social policy in Latin America, in order to further understanding of the new …

Abstract The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the 'Beijing Conference') was a
landmark in policy terms, setting a global policy framework to advance gender equality. Ten …

Women's movements made important contributions to ending the period of authoritarian rule
in Latin America, but their participation in the reconstruction of democratic politics has been …

Within Argentina and beyond, the characteristics of work are changing as work becomes
increasingly informal and precarious. Drawing on interviews conducted with informal …

Abstract In Latin America as elsewhere in the world, gender bias and masculine prerogative
have prevailed in social policy as in social life more broadly, with entitlements resting on …

This study assesses the probability that an older person in Bridgetown, Barbados receives
financial, functional and/or material support from their adult children according to the …

This study examines the likelihood that older adults and their children in Bridgetown,
Barbados engage in exchanges of financial, functional, and material support and the extent …

Home-based work has recently gained increasing attention, particularly in the context of
globalization. One line of literature argues that as firms compete to survive in the global …