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Åsa Lundqvist

Åsa Lundqvist

Professor

Åsa Lundqvist

The politics of persuasion. : Opinion-shaping activities and gender equality in Sweden, 1960-1970

Författare

  • Åsa Lundqvist

Summary, in Swedish

In this paper, the role and significance of opinion-shaping and persuasion activities are explored through an analysis of the activation of women in the Swedish labour market in the 1960s, highlighting the ways in which gender equality ideals became infused in these activities through a process of ‘transformative state feminism’. The analysis draws on qualitative data including archival material and interviews. Activation policies in the 1960s emphasised the ideology of full employment including the importance of increasing women’s participation in paid work, hence paving the way for a dual-earner family model. The concrete measures associated with implementation of such policies were carried out by the National Labour Market Board (AMS), and included retraining and advanced training courses but also a number of innovative opinion-shaping activities. Two of these are analysed in this paper: a radio series called ‘Housewife switches job’ and the establishment of a so-called ‘activation inspector’. Following this analysis, the underlying ideas permeating such opinion-shaping activities and the actors who infused ideals of gender equality into the process are examined. In conclusion, lessons for the ongoing transformation of traditional gender relations and prospects for future advances in gender equality are discussed.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi
  • Sociologiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2019-07-25

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

243-256

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work

Volym

29

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

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

Nyckelord

  • Sweden
  • activation policies
  • persuasion
  • opinion-shaping
  • gender equality
  • dual earner model

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1030-1763