Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McKeen, Wendy

Titel

Editorial

Ist Teil von

• Canadian review of social policy (1987), 2016-10 (76), p.I

Ort / Verlag

Toronto: Canadian Review of Social Policy

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Using a variety of research approaches, the articles tackle critical questions pertaining to Employment Insurance (EI) and poverty, pay equity and care work, incarceration and mental health issues, and social housing and stress. [...]the pay equity focus itself does not make visible the fact that women disproportionately work in jobs involving care work, and that the low pay and precarious conditions they experience, reflects the low value that care work is given in society. All of this has made it difficult to discern a single policy problem around which to mobilize. [...]the breadth and diversity of the policy community engaged with this issue makes it difficult to find common ground. [...]the issue includes two book reviews: