The paper argues that welfare is satisfying human needs. It is a multidimensional phenomenon and is constructed through gendered processes. The author distinguished five dimensions of welfare: having, loving, being, doing, deciding. The dimensions are illustrated and discussed connected to the debates on the public-private divide, the distribution between care and wage work, Welfare models and inequality regimes, social and political citizenship. only subscribers can see the full article

This article seeks to assess the impact of the Lisbon Strategy in implementing gender policies in six Italian regions. Reviewing the stages of community action, the research brings out the difficulties linked to putting into effect the Lisbon agenda, which has met with the marginalization of aspirations to social justice, as well as strong resistance, particularly in the South, linked to the impossibility of controlling measures autonomously due to a lack of fixed frameworks and more stringent binding mechanisms. only subscribers can see the full article

The need to receive and give care has long remained hidden in the division of labour between community and family and between men and women. As a result, for a long time both dependence on care and the responsibility for providing it were not recognized as fundamental rights of citizenship. A partial exception was that of maternity leave. There is also a continuing asymmetry in the way in which the care needs of various subjects are recognized and the unpaid or paid work of those who respond to these needs. This marginality risks becoming more problematic at this time.only subscribers can see the full article