Do Working Mothers Oppress Other Women? The Swedish “Maid Debate” and the Welfare State Politics of Gender Equality

Bowman, John R.; Cole, Alyson

doi:10.1086/599289

Cited by 23 publications

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“…The European climate for debates about caregiving is very different, because there has been a long history of institutionalized state protections and economic provision to support mothers' caregiving work outside the marketplace (Morgan & Zippel, 2003). Using market mechanisms to provide care is deeply controversial, as the public debate over employing maids in Sweden has shown (Bowman & Cole, 2009). The relatively smaller significance of markets and unpaid community labor in providing essential care work makes the state's role in the regulation of time—the institutionalization of normal working hours, days, weeks, and years—an exceptionally interesting circuit to follow.…”

Section: Considering Carework As Institutionally Intersectionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families

Ferree¹

2010

J of Marriage and Family

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The challenge feminist scholarship posed to family studies has been largely met through the incorporation of research on gender dynamics within families and intersectional differences among them. Despite growing attention to gender as performance and power in more diverse families, the more difficult work of understanding the dynamics of change among institutions including the family and using intersectional analyses to unpack relationships of power is only beginning. Reviewing the contributions researchers have made in these areas over the last decade and applying the idea of circuits to the study of care work, this article points to promising practices for both improving research on gender and families and contributing to the slow drip of institutional change.

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Section: Considering Carework As Institutionally Intersectionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families

Ferree¹

2010

J of Marriage and Family

226

276

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“…Inequality ensures a ready pool of poorly paid service workers and domestic employees to help out those who can afford to pay (Misra, Woodring, & Merz, ). Where societies place a premium on equality, there is cultural resistance to exploitative labor practices, objections that are uncommon where reigning ideologies justify income disparities (Bowman & Cole, ).…”

Section: A Domain Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying Housework Across Nations

Treas

Lui

2013

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Long motivated by microlevel paradigms, the study of housework has been revitalized by research emphasizing macrolevel influences. Common trends and persistent differences across the developed world underscore the importance of country context. Gender specialization, gender equality, and socioeconomic (in)equality are cultural and structural domains that channel domestic behavior in predictable directions. By demonstrating the country-tocountry differences in the causes and consequences of domestic arrangements, this research points to 5 questions that set a course for studies of housework in comparative context.

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“…A heated debate about tax deductions for household services started in the beginning of the 1990s (Bowman & Cole 2009;Öberg 1999;Platzer 2004). It was early on named "the maid debate" ("pigdebatten"), which, of course, referred to the class society of the early twentieth century when a big proportion of young women were live-in maids.…”

Section: Tax Deduction For Domestic Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%