New Labour Policies Flashcards
1
Q
When did New Labour govern?
A
1997-2010
2
Q
Who was the prime minister?
A
Tony Blair
3
Q
Which post-modernist was Tony Blair influenced by?
A
Giddens
4
Q
What was their key idea in relation to family?
A
- focus on acknowledging family diversity but also continuing the New Right
5
Q
Name 4 New Labour Policies?
A
- Cuts to lone parent benefits
- Paid paternity leave 2003
- Civil Partnership Act (2005)
- repealed section 28
6
Q
Cuts to lone parent benefits
A
- to encourage lone parents to work while government ensures cheap/free childcare
- promotes working mothers (unlike New Right)
7
Q
Paid paternity leave 2003
A
men are allowed to take 2 weeks paid parental leave
8
Q
Civil partnership Act 2005
A
- allowed same-sex relationships to be legally recognised (but couldn’t get married)
9
Q
evaluation: what do critics suggest is the real reason fro promoting women to work?
A
- suggest it was actually to cut public spending on welfare/lone parent families
10
Q
evaluation: civil partnership?
A
- was a missed opportunity for full equality (gay marriage)
11
Q
evaluation: despite acknowledging diversity…?
A
- they still held the view that marriage (nuclear heterosexual family) was the best
12
Q
evaluation: positive?
A
improved gay rights - repealed section 28 and civil partnership act)
