Gender regimes, employment and family. What is gender equality?

1. Gender regimes, employment and family. What is gender equality? Ulla Björnberg Department of Sociology Gothenburg University Sweden Ulla.Bjornberg@sociology.gu.se

2. Paid work and gender equality • Implications for gender equality is dependant on region and class

3. The problem of care and gender equality • The extended family decreasing source of care • Migrant women as workers domestic workers • Extension of public care

4. Care as a class problem • Poor families • Lower and middle educated women- • Higher educated women • Childlessness as an option

5. Gender regimes • Care – a concern for men and women • Commodification of care • Leave schemes – maternity leave, Paternity leave, parental leave • Men and care – how to make them take on care • Regulation of working conditions

6. Conclusions • Unequal sharing of care and domestic work is a main reason behind social reproduction of gender inequality • The extended intergenerational caring family is decreasing • The care problem is locally and globally interlinked • Men as carers must be more focussed in policies • Regulations of working conditions globally and locally