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UNIT 21 CHAPTER 2
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- 1BEVERIDGES' ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER ROLES WHAT WERE THEY?WOMEN DO 'VITAL WORK' LOOKING AFTER HUSBAND, CHILDREN AND HOUSE
WOMEN WOULD STOP WORKING ONCE THEY MARRY
LOWER BENEFITS THAN MEN AS MEN HAD RESPONCIBILITY FOR UPKEEP OF HOME - 2WHO WERE UNDERVALUED BY THE WELFARE STATE?SINGLE WOMEN PROVIDING CARE AT HOME
- 3WHAT DID BEVERIDGE NOT ANTICIPATE WOULD HAPPEN THAT DID IN THE 1960'S AND 1970'S?A RAPID INCREASE IN THE DIVORCE RATE
NO BENEFIT FOR SEPERATED/DIVORCED WOMEN - 4WHAT IS UNIVERSALISM?The goal of making benefits and services (including health +social care) available to everyone, irrespective of their status and whether they can pay or not.
Services paid for by taxation, social services, means tested - 5FLAWS IN BEVERIDGES WELFARE STATE POST-WAR INADEQUATE BENEFITS AND PENSIONSincreasing number of people on social security benefits found didn't have enough benefit to live on - level of benefit set too low
many people were then means tested to claim national assistance - Beveridge wanted to do away with means testing
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