The societal organisation and welfare state support of social care and the relationship between social care and the employment sector is one of the central criteria for a classification of European societies according to equal social rights and integration opportunities of men and women. The chapters in this part discuss the effects of different welfare state policies and care arrangements for the access of women as carers to social rights. The conventional model of the relationship of social rights and social integration with participation in the labour market is analysed theoretically and the modification of this model in the course of the more recent developments of the care arrangements in different welfare states is shown empirically. In a growing number of European societies – as has long been the case in the Nordic countries – social rights due to carers are being granted. This is resulting in the emergence of new patterns of social integration.