Child Care in Post-communist Romania between Familialist Ideology, Labour Market and Gender Roles
Autori:
Ionela BALUTA
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 227-242
How to cite this article:Baluta, I. (2014). Child Care in Post-communist Romania between Familialist Ideology, Labour Market and Gender Roles. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 46, 227-242. |
Abstract:
Child care is an issue that should be studied as a social and political process
involving several dimensions of public policies, social representations, cultural
values and social practices. This article starts from the premise that child care is
a key indicator for the well-being and family policies of modern democratic
societies and of their gender regimes. It seeks to analyse the Romanian postcommunist
legislative framework and public policies architecture regarding the
child care regulations, provisions and ideologies. After a brief survey of the
principal concepts employed, the author refers to a brief historical context, the
Communist period being indispensable for understanding the political, economic
and social factors affecting child care since 1989. The second part of the article
examines the post-communist policies concerning child care and equal opportunities
(the state of legislation, statistics, government strategies and the resources
deployed). The main hypothesis of the article is that in post-communist Romania,
at the level of legislation and public provisions, child care is implemented through
the lens of a political ideology and within some public policies strongly influenced
by familialism, while labour market is governed by competitions and neo-liberal
perspective. Thus, the principle of gender equality plays a marginal role in child
care provisions.
Keywords:
child care, public policies, familialism, labour market, gender equality.
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