The power resources approach long neglected gender in distribution analysis.

Evidence

Until the 1980s the role of gender was by and large neglected in analyses of distributive processes and welfare states. This neglect also has characterized work within the power resources approach, which has primarily been used in attempts to analyse the role of socio-economic stratification and class in the development of social rights. — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface, 14

Categorization

• QUESTION: If unpaid caring labor is excluded from resource measures, what does ‘power resources’ systematically fail to count?