Title: Gender Ideology - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Gender Ideology
Gender Ideology
Social Movements and Gender
1.3 Gender and Framing Processes
Handbook of Income Distribution
12.6.3.1.3 Social Norms: Doing Gender and Identity
Social Welfare Policies and Gender
4 Gender and Explanations of Social Welfare Policies
Migration
The Impacts of Migration on Sending and Receiving Societies
Women in Buddhism
Women in Mahāyāna Buddhism
Extensive/Intensive Methods
Definitions
Viewing 21st Century Motherhood Through a Work-Family Lens
Negotiating between Work and Motherhood
Maternal and Paternal Employment, Effects of

Content: Other studies have emphasized the role of women's political mobilization and the institutional setting in shaping social welfare policies. In attempting to explain the late introduction of social insurance schemes and the early adoption of maternal welfare measures in the US, Skocpol ( 1992) underlines the importance of the state in politicizing gender identities that lead groups to mobilize, the correspondence between the form of political organizing and the structure of the state that allows or thwarts a group's influence on policies, and policy legacies. Along similar lines, O'Connor et al. ( 1999) suggest an explanatory framework made up of the following elements: social movement mobilization and orientation, political party configuration, the political opportunity structure, and the institutional context and legacy. The movement's orientation involves its political strategy to achieve gender equality, specifically the movement's attitude toward the state and its gender ideology, whether emphasis is on sameness or differences between the sexes. Political party configuration refers to the strength of left, center and right parties. The political opportunity structure is defined as access