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- Title
A State's Gendered Response to Political Instability: Gendering Labor Policy in Semiauthoritarian El Salvador (1944–1972).
- Authors
Griffith, Kati L.; Gates, Leslie C.
- Abstract
Unlike much of the gender and welfare literature, this study examines why a regime that constrains pressure from below would adopt gendered social policies. The Salvadoran case (1944–72) suggests that political instability rather than societal pressures may prompt semiauthoritarian regimes to adopt gendered labor reforms. We extend the motivations for adopting gendered labor reforms to include co‐opting labor by examining gendered labor reforms in the context of El Salvador's historically contingent labor strategy. This gendered analysis helps explain how a semiauthoritarian regime secured political stability and reveals the special appeal gendered labor reforms may have to semiauthoritarian regimes.
- Subjects
EL Salvador; LABOR laws; SOCIAL policy; POLITICAL stability; LEGITIMACY of governments; CONSENSUS (Social sciences); LABOR; LABOR inspection; GENDER mainstreaming; PUBLIC welfare; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2002, Vol 9, Issue 2, p248
- ISSN
1072-4745
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sp/9.2.248