Adaptation or Diffusion of the Swedish Gender Model?

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ID23249040
AuthorsChristina Bergqvist (0000-0003-4985-6785), Ann‐cathrine Jungar (0000-0002-7203-9495), Ann-Cathrine Jungar
Year2000
Pages160-179
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGendered Policies in Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230378056_9
OpenAlexW1546444456
ISBN9780230378056
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In the late 1980s, Helga Maria Hernes (1987) formulated the thesis that the Scandinavian welfare states have gone further than other welfare states in achieving equality between the sexes. Since then, Sweden has joined the European Union (EU), and questions have been raised about the extent to which EU membership may change the Swedish gender model and/or influence thinking on gender issues in other member states and at EU level. Hernes (1987, p. 135) was not claiming that equality had been fully achieved, only that the Nordic welfare states were potentially women-friendly. An important aspect of women-friendly policies is that they give women the opportunity to participate in public life and to reconcile motherhood with paid work. Compared to most EU member states, Sweden has a long history of policies encouraging women’s participation in the labour market and enabling parents to combine family life and employment.

Adaptation (eye) · Demographic economics · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Gender equality · Labour economics · Member states · Opportunity structures · Political science · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Work (physics) · Working life · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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