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- Kvist, Elin, 1972-, et al.
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What Has Gender Equality Got to Do with It? : An Analysis of Policy Debates Surrounding Domestic Services in the Welfare States of Spain and Sweden
- 2010
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Ingår i: NORA. - : Routledge. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 18:3, s. 185-203
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As more and more political institutions stress the significance of gender equalitypolicies, it becomes important to investigate the different interpretations and meanings attached tothe concept of gender equality in diverse policy contexts. In this article we are interested inproblematizing visions of gender equality by studying the challenges that the growing amount ofpaid domestic work performed within European households poses for gender equality policies andpractices in two European countries. The aim is to reveal normative assumptions and silences inrelation to gender equality by comparing how “paid domestic work” has been framed in policydebates in Sweden and Spain. As welfare states, Sweden and Spain are generally considered to bevery different, and in policies on care for children and the elderly the differences are perhaps mostapparent. In both countries, however, paid domestic work in the home has become more and morecommon in the last two decades. The rise of paid domestic services in European households hasbeen interpreted as due to the limitations or decline of welfare states, the ageing populations, andthe increasing numbers of dual-earner families. These services are most often provided by women,predominantly of immigrant background, and involve a wide range of tasks, including care work.The phenomenon of an increasing sector of domestic (care) work poses a theoretical andmethodological challenge to gender and welfare studies. This article argues that the analysis ofdebates surrounding domestic service in private households is a useful starting-point for anintersectional analysis by means of revealing the normative assumptions and marginalizationembedded in gender equality policies. It uses a comparative frame analysis in combination withintersectional analysis to assess how interactions between gender, class, race, and sexuality havebeen articulated in the policy debates on domestic services in Spain and Sweden.
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- Andersson, Katarina, 1963-, et al.
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The neoliberal turn and the marketization of care : the transformation of eldercare in Sweden
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Ingår i: The European Journal of Women's Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 1350-5068 .- 1461-7420. ; 22:3, s. 274-287
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The care for older and disabled people has been described as a core area of the Nordic model. The Nordic countries’ welfare model has also been described as women friendly, as women are not forced to make harder choices than men between work and family. The Swedish eldercare system has, during the last several decades, undergone significant changes. Previously, eldercare could be described as universal, meaning a publicly provided, comprehensive, high-quality service available to all citizens according to need and not based on the ability to pay. In later years transformation of eldercare has been influenced by neoliberal politics, which emphasize economic efficiency and cost reduction through competition. Eldercare has become a more diverse multidimensional system, and a private market for home-based eldercare has been created. The numbers of eldercare providers have increased considerably, and new ways of organizing eldercare have been established. In January 2009, the Act on System of Choice in the Public Sector was introduced (in Swedish: Lagen om valfrihetssystem [LOV]). The Act was supposed to provide an opportunity for interested municipalities and county councils to expose their publicly provided services to market competition, and to enable users to choose their providers. This article aims to illustrate how neoliberal reasoning dominated the policy process leading to adoption of the Act on System of Choice in the Public Sector. With the use of a discursive policy analysis the authors specifically explore how neoliberal logic dominated, and also how choice and equality were understood and interpreted in the policy process. They conclude that the neoliberal turn in eldercare claiming to centre on the individual choice of persons in need of care runs the risk of creating unequal care that decentres the eldercare worker and creates precarious work situations.
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- Andersson, Lars M., et al.
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Sverigedemokraternas valfilm förvanskar historien
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Ingår i: Dagens Nyheter, 7 augusti 2018. - 1101-2447.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Ingress: Den koppling som görs mellan socialdemokratisk och nazitysk politik i filmen ”Ett folk, ett parti” saknar vetenskaplig grund, skriver åtta svenska forskare.
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- Andersson, Lars M, et al.
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Vår forskning har kapats av politiker
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Ingår i: Curie: en tidning från Vetenskapsrådet. - 2001-3426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- När vi möter konspiratoriska tolkningar baserade på lösryckta citat ur vår forskning är det vårt ansvar att protestera. Det skriver några av de historiker som menar att deras resultat missbrukats i SD:s valfilm. Här ger de exempel på när användning av forskningsresultat övergår i missbruk.
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- Gunnarsson, Åsa, 1958-, et al.
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Public expenditure for domestic work challenges Swedish gender equality
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In several European countries governments have used various forms of public expenditures to stimulate job growth in the domestic service sector. The reforms have mainly been incorporated into labour market policies with the specific aim of encouraging households to employ domestic workers. This raises several from a feminist perspective interesting questions about public expenditure and the relation between care work, family models and taxation in gender and welfare policies. In this article the conflicting interests of policies and legal principles concerning tax reform is shown, which could ultimately undermine general welfare and gender equality reforms. The Swedish experience is contrasted with the development of public expenditure for domestic services in other European countries. Concluding that the introduction of a tax credit for domestic services could be seen as a transformation of the Swedish dual-earner and dual-carer regime, towards a dual-earner regime where care is once again made invisible
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