Drew argues most European Union countries are now moving towards more individualistic gender regimes
policies such as publicly funded healthcare do not come cheap, involve major conflicts about who should benefit from social policies and who should pay them
can't assume there will be an inevitable march of progress towards gender equality
since global recession in 2008, cutbacks in government spending have led to pressure on women to take more responsibility for caring as state retreats from providing welfare
during this period trend towards neo-liberal policies in which family encouraged to use market rather than state to meet their needs,
private pension provision and private care of the old
differences between European countries show that social policies can play an important role in promoting or preventing gender equality in the family