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Antoinette Hetzler

Antoinette Hetzler

Professor emerita

Antoinette Hetzler

"Women, Work and Welfare - An Analysis of Social Change in Sweden!

Författare

  • Antoinette Hetzler

Summary, in English

This article focuses on processes of social change in Sweden, an advanced welfare state. it starts by pointing out the failure of contemporary welfare state theory to deal with the imbalance between the goal of equlality and the goal of efficiency in the production and distribution of both capital and social values. Three processes of social change are examined: the marginalization of women in the labor market, increased use of decommodification processes by women, and the delayed entrance of young women into the labor market. It is argued that these processes are strong indicators that gains in equality won by and for women in the advanced welfafe state may be ephemeral. Furthermore, recent research shows that women, anticipating this change, have already readjusted their role within the household to accommodate macro marginalization processes. The article concludes that within the welfare state, equality is forced to take a ack seat to processes that enhance efficiency in the basic relationship between capital and labor

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

12-35

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Sociology Special Edition. Changing Conceptions of Gender

Volym

85

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • women equality
  • labor markets
  • women and work
  • marginalization
  • sociologi
  • sociology

Aktiv

Published