Preface; Gender and well-being: the role of institutions, Elisabetta Addis, Paloma de Villota, Florence Degavre and John Eriksen; Section 1 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives: Gender and welfare regimes in historical perspective: the development of welfare policy in Englan and Wales from the Poor Law to Beveridge, Bernard Harris; Scandinavian gender equality: competing discourses and paradoxes, Anette Borchorst; Too much famil and too much gender inequality: women's and men' total work in Mediterranean countries, Lina Galvez Munoz, Paula Rodriguez Modrono and Monica Dominguez Serrano; A social-reproduction and well-being approach to gender budgets: experiments at local government level in Italy, Tindara Addabbo, Giovanna Badalassi, Francesca Corrado and Antonella Picchio.; Section 2 Gender, Well-Being and the Provision of Care: the Family and the Household: Home care and cash transfers: the search for a sustainable elderly-care model, Annamaria Simonazzi; Transnational caregiving between Australia, Italy and El Salvador: the impact of institutions on the capability to care at a distance, Laura Meri and Loretta Baldassar; A good step forward but not far enough: the provision o care credits in European pension systems, Athina Vlachantoni

Section 3 Gender and Well-Being in the Labour Market: Gender (in)equality in the labour market and the southern European welfare states, Sara Falcao Casaca and Sonia Damiao; Reconciliation of work and family in Greece: policy responses and dimensions o public debate, Laura Alipranti-Maratou and Anna Nikolaou; Perceived work-life conflict among Swedish women in dual earner families, Linda Lane and Margareta Back-Wiklund; What makes French employees so happy with their balance between family and work?

The impact of family-friendly policies, Ariane Palhe and Anne Solaz; Index.