A gender-inclusive welfare state requires childcare, maternity leave, and independent pensions.

Evidence

One can then ask what kinds of goods and services would be appropriate for a female head of household to keep her and her family alive and well. In addition to worker compensation, she would need maternity leave. To maintain her income (i.e., remain employed) she would need childcare. She would need a pension plan tied not just to the income of her spouse (not just survivor benefits). Thus to really take into account the concerns of women in the population, particularly as (single) heads of households, we need to reconceptualize the welfare state. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1442

One can then ask what kinds of goods and services would be appropriate for a female head of household to keep her alive and well. In addition to worker compensation, she would need maternity leave. To maintain her income (i.e., remain employed) she would need child care. She would need a pension plan tied not just to the income of her spouse (not just survivor benefits). Thus to really take into account the concerns of women in the population, particularly as (single) heads of households, we need to reconceptualize the welfare state. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 586

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supplies the analytic machinery behind the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s core move: contested categories get redefined by whose needs the definition serves.
• SEED: Angle: ‘The definition is the policy’ — how the operative definition of a social program silently decides which lives count as covered.
• XREF: Directly connects to the feminist welfare-regime literature (Orloff, Esping-Andersen) and to critiques of male-breadwinner social policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1442; Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 586