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Porträtt Lisa Eklund. Foto: Emma Lord.

Lisa Eklund

Docent | Universitetslektor

Porträtt Lisa Eklund. Foto: Emma Lord.

Children's rights and gender equality in Swedish parenting support: policy and practice

Författare

  • Lisa Eklund
  • Åsa Lundqvist

Summary, in English

The aim of this article is to explore how ‘children's rights’ and ‘gender equality’ are articulated in parenting support policies in Sweden, and how these policies are enacted in practice with respect to the two perspectives mentioned. The analysis builds on key policy documents and interviews with civil servants working on parenting support on local, regional and national levels. The results show that despite national ambitions to enhance and achieve gender equality among parents, gender equality are downplayed in local settings. Important reasons are to be found in a lack of concrete strategies and instructions how to work with gender equality perspectives in cooperation with children's rights perspectives, but also the different interpretations of gender equality and ‘good parenting’ made by the civil servants.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi
  • Sociologiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

32-47

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Family Studies

Volym

27

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Sociology
  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • Parenting support
  • children’s rights
  • gender equality
  • gender equal parenting
  • dual earner, dual carer family model
  • Sweden

Status

Published

Projekt

  • The Politics of Parenting Support: Development, Forms and Agents
  • Family, Migration and Welfare

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1322-9400