Topic of thesis: Welfare State, Gender and Family Policies in Albania: Opportunities and Obstacles to Women’s Employment
Abstract: This project aims to explore several aspects of family policies in Albania, their implications for women’s employment patterns and their impact on the gender allocation of unpaid work. Through a thorough policy analysis, interviews with policy-makers and in-depth interviews with women (and men) it aspires to identify (i) the degree to which family policies commodifydecommodify women and familialise/defamiliase care in Albania (ii) how gendered division of labour is assumed and implicitly or explicitly promoted when policies are prepared or adopted by policy makers and (iii) what reconciliation strategies employed women (and men) adopt to cope with the demands of paid and unpaid work. The goal of this project is to contribute to the welfare state literature and debate by empirically analyzing a rarely explored post-socialist context and adding insights on the interaction of macro-micro factors affecting women's employment, with a special focus on family policies.
Research interests: Gender, Migration, Welfare and Care regimes, Power Inequalities, Social Stratifications, Gender and Labor Markets
Graduated from: BA in Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey MA in Central European university, Budapest, Hungary
Degrees obtained: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Master of Arts in Gender Studies
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