Abstract

RODRIGUEZ GUSTA, Ana Laura. One social policy, three distinctive gender effects: the local implementation of a conditioned cash transfer program in Argentina. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.22, pp.559-576. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article examines the local implementation of a conditioned cash transfer program in Argentina named Plan for Unemployed Heads of Household (Plan Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desocupados). It seeks to analyze how municipal governments construct gender identities and, in so doing, offer different opportunities for the population of men and women that receive public social assistance. By addressing implementation of the plan in three local councils in the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), we pose the following questions: what are the actual actions and practices developed to implement the plan and what are the ideas that sustain them? In what ways do those actions and practices bring about consequences on the social organization of gender, this is, on the responsibilities and roles socially assigned to men and women? In more abstract terms, this article aims at illustrating the virtuous and adverse transformations that occur in the implementation of a social policy, depending on the municipal local management. As a consequence, the gender effects of the conditioned cash transfer programs, as long as they imply decentralized implementation, should be examined taking into account the local realities of their management.

Keywords : Gender discursive regime; Social policy; Gender public policies; Municipal management.

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