The Welfare State and the Gender Dissimilarity Index in Homelessness: A Comparison of Norway, Belgium and Poland

Q2 Social Sciences

Critical Housing Analysis Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.13060/23362839.2021.8.1.519

M. Mostowska

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Abstract

This article investigates the structural underpinnings of gender dissimilarities in homelessness from a comparative perspective. The Gender Dissimilarity Index is introduced as a simple measure for quantifying the unevenness of the distribution of men and women across the ETHOS-light categories. Three gendered aspects of the welfare state are considered and compared for Norway, Belgium, and Poland: employment and childcare, housing, and homelessness policies. Based on available data, it appears that the most uneven distribution of genders may indicate a combination of the promotion of the male breadwinner model and relatively broad support for people who are homeless, but also the shortage of affordable housing. A more gender-balanced homeless population may be the result of a combination of housing-led approaches and degenderising policies. However, a similar distribution may be attributed to states with implicitly genderising policies coupled with ‘traditional’ attitudes towards gender roles and a lack of adequate responses to women’s needs.

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福利国家和无家可归者的性别差异指数:挪威、比利时和波兰的比较

本文从比较的角度探讨了无家可归者性别差异的结构基础。性别差异指数是一种简单的衡量方法，用于量化男女在ETHOS-light类别中分布的不均匀性。本文考虑并比较了挪威、比利时和波兰福利国家的三个性别方面:就业和儿童保育、住房和无家可归者政策。根据现有的数据，性别分布最不平衡似乎表明，男性养家模式的推广和对无家可归者的相对广泛的支持，以及经济适用房的短缺，这两者结合在一起。一个更加性别平衡的无家可归人口可能是住房主导的方法和去性别化政策相结合的结果。然而，类似的分布可能归因于隐含性别化政策的国家，加上对性别角色的“传统”态度，以及缺乏对妇女需求的充分回应。

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Critical Housing Analysis Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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期刊介绍： Critical Housing Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on critical and innovative housing research. The journal was launched in January 2014 and publishes two online issues annually. Critical Housing Analysis is published by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Critical Housing Analysis aims to provide on-line discussion space for researchers who come up with innovative, critical and challenging ideas and approaches in housing-related research. The unique function of this journal is to facilitate rapid feedback on critical and innovative ideas and methods developed by housing researchers around the world. We are especially keen to publish papers that provide: 1.Innovations in methods, theories and practices used in housing-related research. We especially welcome papers applying original research strategies (such as, mixed and interdisciplinary methods) and international comparisons with a strong sense for contextual and institutional differences. Papers should provide new and fresh research perspectives allowing a deeper understanding of housing markets, policies and systems. Innovations need to be justified but they could be “work in progress”, i.e. their findings may not yet have been fully verified. 2.Critiques of assumptions, methods and theories used in housing-related research. Such critical evaluations must be well-founded (empirically or by consistently logical argument) and convincing. However, there is no particular need to provide a solution to the problems that have been identified. 3.Critiques of applied housing practices and policies in particular cultural and institutional contexts, especially for those countries that are less represented in mainstream housing policy discourse. The critical assessment of policies must be analytical, should propose new perspectives and lead to wider policy implications.