The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada
Although policy instruments are often conceptualized as technical or neutral tools through which ideas and outcomes are connected, this article focuses on the discursive dimensions of policy instruments in Canada’s eldercare policy to explore their gendered and gendering logics and effects. Using fr...
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| description | Although policy instruments are often conceptualized as technical or neutral tools through which ideas and outcomes are connected, this article focuses on the discursive dimensions of policy instruments in Canada’s eldercare policy to explore their gendered and gendering logics and effects. Using frame analysis, we examine government acts, public reports and policy documents to uncover how different policy instruments at the federal and subnational levels frame caregiving and the caregiver. In doing so, we identify three distinct and contradictory frames – caregiver as resource, caregiver as worker and caregiver as autonomy – and illuminate their effects for gender equality outcomes. By looking at the implementation of eldercare policies in different provinces and across different government levels, we advance a better understanding of the gendered meanings and effects of instruments mixes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9d392f5d1464a69bb271129a3b5bb832022-12-22T03:37:01ZengOxford University PressPolicy & Society1449-40351839-33732019-10-0138455457110.1080/14494035.2019.16386961638696The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in CanadaFrancesca Scala0Stephanie Paterson1Laurence Richard-Nobert2Concordia UniversityConcordia UniversityConcordia UniversityAlthough policy instruments are often conceptualized as technical or neutral tools through which ideas and outcomes are connected, this article focuses on the discursive dimensions of policy instruments in Canada’s eldercare policy to explore their gendered and gendering logics and effects. Using frame analysis, we examine government acts, public reports and policy documents to uncover how different policy instruments at the federal and subnational levels frame caregiving and the caregiver. In doing so, we identify three distinct and contradictory frames – caregiver as resource, caregiver as worker and caregiver as autonomy – and illuminate their effects for gender equality outcomes. By looking at the implementation of eldercare policies in different provinces and across different government levels, we advance a better understanding of the gendered meanings and effects of instruments mixes.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1638696instrument mixesgender effectspolicy implementationeldercarecanada |
| spellingShingle | Francesca Scala Stephanie Paterson Laurence Richard-Nobert The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada Policy & Society instrument mixes gender effects policy implementation eldercare canada |
| title | The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada |
| title_full | The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada |
| title_fullStr | The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada |
| title_full_unstemmed | The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada |
| title_short | The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada |
| title_sort | gender logic and effects of instrument mixes implementing eldercare policy in canada |
| topic | instrument mixes gender effects policy implementation eldercare canada |
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