Working Hours and Gender Equality: Examples from Care Work in the Swedish Public Sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 508-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Jonsson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Care Work ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Skuespillerfaget som lønarbejde og kønskonstruktion

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Sjørup ◽  
Charlotte Kirkegaard
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Stereotypical Roles

The article is based on a survey concerning gender equality among artists in Denmark, conducted in 2007. It particularly focuses on the situation of actresses as modern, well-educated and gender equality conscious women, placed in a dilemma between their own desire to deconstruct and reconstruct images of gender in their work and the traditional, gender-stereotypical roles offered to them. They moreover are the victims of late working hours and low salaries, making it very difficult to maintain themselves financially and to live a life as independent working mothers. Ageing is also a very difficult bodily experience for the actresses, who will often be excluded and replaced by younger actresses. There is however a battle going on between the gender equality oriented actresses and the primarily male directors and instructors, in charge of allowing modernisation of gender roles in films and theatre. In sum, the article explores how gender is constructed culturally and how femininity might be reformulated to challenge heteronormative gender stereotypes.

scholarly journals A New Service Class in the Public Sector? The Role of Femonationalism in Unemployment Policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
Paula Mulinari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Service Class ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Care ◽  
The Creation

This article aims to explore the content embedded in the figuration of ‘foreign-born unemployed women’ and how discourses of gender equality are used to create an emerging racialised service class within the Swedish public sector. Influenced by the concept of femonationalism, the article explores how the introduction of the Extra Services unemployment reforms facilitates the creation of a service class whose purpose is to make it possible for the regular workforce to continue to function despite cutbacks and the neoliberal management of professional care work in the public sector. The study identifies a shift in the discourse, where, while migrant women continue to be represented as victims in public discourses concerning unemployment, they are also represented as being lazy and unwilling to work, qualities that legitimate the need for more repressive interventions towards the group, often described as feminist interventions that will rescue migrant women and their children.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI GENDER DALAM NOVEL-NOVEL ANAK KARYA PENULIS ANAK

LITERA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Else Liliani
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis study aims to describe identities, roles, and gender relations in children’s novels.The data sources were six children’s novels published by Dar! Mizan.The six novels werepurposively selected. The data were collected by repeatedly reading the novels, recorded,and classified based on the problem formulation categories. They were analyzed usingthe framework of feminist literary criticism, namely woman as a reader. The results ofthe study are as follows. First, gender equality has not been manifested because there isstill gender identity stereotyping. Characters with two identities, feminine and masculine,are described as weird characters. Second, there is inequality in the distribution of genderroles. Female characters have roles in public and domestic sectors and male charactersplay roles in the public sector only. Third, existing relations show varied but recognizablepatterns. The relations are manifested in different forms depending on contexts, sexes,ages, social classes, cultures, and descendant factors.

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