UNIT 21 CHAPTER 2

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BEVERIDGES' ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER ROLES WHAT WERE THEY?	WOMEN DO 'VITAL WORK' LOOKING AFTER HUSBAND, CHILDREN AND HOUSE WOMEN WOULD STOP WORKING ONCE THEY MARRY LOWER BENEFITS THAN MEN AS MEN HAD RESPONCIBILITY FOR UPKEEP OF HOME
WHO WERE UNDERVALUED BY THE WELFARE STATE?	SINGLE WOMEN PROVIDING CARE AT HOME
WHAT DID BEVERIDGE NOT ANTICIPATE WOULD HAPPEN THAT DID IN THE 1960'S AND 1970'S?	A RAPID INCREASE IN THE DIVORCE RATE NO BENEFIT FOR SEPERATED/DIVORCED WOMEN
WHAT IS UNIVERSALISM?	The goal of making benefits and services (including health +social care) available to everyone, irrespective of their status and whether they can pay or not. Services paid for by taxation, social services, means tested
FLAWS IN BEVERIDGES WELFARE STATE POST-WAR INADEQUATE BENEFITS AND PENSIONS	increasing number of people on social security benefits found didn't have enough benefit to live on - level of benefit set too low many people were then means tested to claim national assistance - Beveridge wanted to do away with means testing

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