ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how social policies reflect and influence concepts of gender
in the German and British welfare states because concepts of gender are deeply
rooted in the structure of institutions. Germany and Britain have always varied
dramatically in their family policies and in their treatment of lone mothers. The
movement towards a single European market and closer political union, and indeed
harmonization of social policies and an ever-closer relationship between family
policy and employment policy has not changed this (Daly 2005, 392).
