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Gender regimes, employment and family. What is gender
equality?Ulla Björnberg
Department of SociologyGothenburg University
Sweden [email protected]
Paid work and gender equality
• Implications for gender equality is dependant on region and class
The problem of care and gender equality
• The extended family decreasing source of care
• Migrant women as workers domestic workers
• Extension of public care
Care as a class problem
• Poor families• Lower and middle educated women-• Higher educated women• Childlessness as an option
Gender regimes
• Care – a concern for men and women• Commodification of care • Leave schemes – maternity leave,
Paternity leave, parental leave• Men and care – how to make them take on
care• Regulation of working conditions
Conclusions
• Unequal sharing of care and domestic work is a main reason behind social reproduction of gender inequality
• The extended intergenerational caring family is decreasing
• The care problem is locally and globally interlinked
• Men as carers must be more focussed in policies
• Regulations of working conditions globally and locally