«Gender and Well-Being: Work, Family and Public Policies»

 

COST Action A 34

2005-2009

 

 

 

«Gender and Well-being: Work, Family and Public Policies», G&WB~Net  aims to provide new methodologies about production and well-being access from a multidisciplinary approach. We aim to discuss the methodologies that enable to understand the process by which women and men in different countries and different social and cultural contexts generate and access well-being during their life course. The multidisciplinary approach, the multidimensional notion of well-being and the specific perspective chosen, based on women’s historical experience of individual and collective quality of life, will allow to identify the individual, familial and public strategies used to generate and facilitate access to adequate, equitable and sustainable living conditions. Historical approach, will afford patterns about the different strategies involving well-being provision production and distribution, with the aim of contribute to the most accurate understanding of the nowadays situation of European citizens in the access to life quality and well-being.