Care Policy Determinants and Effects: Convergences and Divergences Across the Americas

Abstract This special issue contributes to scholarship on gendered policies by engaging interdisciplinary conversations, intersectional analyses, and global approaches in four ways. First, we analyze care policy determinants alongside care policy outcomes through a feminist political economy framework. Second, we focus on less studied meso-level determinants of social policies: feminist framings and feminist networks that connect global, regional, national, and local levels. Third, we analyze the effects of multisectoral care policies, including childcare and care for aging and disabled people and ranging from institutional care to home-based domestic work. Fourth, we bring new insights from Latin America together with those of North America, and from researchers situated in universities, policy spaces, or both, using multiple methods to analyze convergences in global care policy determinants alongside divergent effects across and within countries.