Request pdf on jan 1 2014 sirin sung and others published gender and welfare states in east asia confucianism or gender equality find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Contributors address questions about gender equality in a confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape from korea and taiwan where confucian culture is deeply embedded through china with its transformations from confucianism to communism and back to the mixed cultural. Nowhere do welfare states promises bring gender equality in practice even in scandinavian countries women earn less care more and have less power than men we shall compare east asian . 6 gender in welfare regimes equality legislation in a confucian context how can we understand the gender logic underpinning the welfare states systems of east asia does the comparative literature which has largely been concerned with western welfare states whether in the three worlds of welfare capitalism esping andersen 1990 or in gender based analysis of the male breadwinner model . Contributors address questions about gender equality in a confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape from korea and taiwan where confucian culture is deeply embedded through china with its transformations from confucianism to communism and back to the mixed cultural environments of hong kong and japan