From Emancipation through Employment to Emancipation through Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of the Special Labor Market Initiatives (BRYT) and Tax Deduction for Domestic Services (RUT) in Sweden

Kvist, Elin; Overud, Johanna

doi:10.19154/njwls.v5i3.4806

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“…The participants’ labour-orientation reflected labour market initiatives focused on women’s paid work [20]. Having a job was understood to be a path to maturity and acceptance as a respectable and responsible adult in the community:

I mean, you can’t behave at work the way you might have at school – you can’t go around saying ‘Shut up’, ‘Fuck off’, and stuff like that.

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Section: Results and Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The public sector was dominated by women. In addition, there were specific state-driven projects that targeted young women to take employment in male-dominated market sectors [20]. An aim of the Swedish active labour market policy during the early 1980s was that no one under the age of 21 should be unemployed.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This period represented an important transition phase between school and employment for these participants. This period also represented a socio-political breakpoint in the Swedish welfare state with a specific focus on women’s participation in the labour market and emancipation through work [20]. …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The formation of the Swedish welfare state, also referred to as the ‘caring state’ or the ‘people’s home’ [20,45], can be linked to changes in women’s situation, societal position and health condition. In parallel, the feminist movement was influential [45,46].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In parallel, the feminist movement was influential [45,46]. Historically and ideologically, a strong focus on education and active labour market policies has underpinned the Nordic social democratic welfare program [20]. With nineteenth-century roots, an activist struggle for social, religious, and political rights was central to the Swedish welfare project.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions: exploring young femininities and health as shaped by marginalisation and social context. A qualitative study in Northern Sweden

Wiklund

Ahlgren

Hammarström

2018

Global Health Action

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Background: Gender, class and living conditions shape health and illness. However, few studies have investigated constructs of femininity in relation to health and living conditions among young women who are unemployed and marginalised at an early age. Objective: The aim of this research was to elucidate constructs of femininities in relation to structuring living conditions and expressions of health in Northern Swedish women. The time period of interest was the transition from unemployed teenagers to young adults in a social context of high unemployment and societal change across the critical ‘school-to-work-transition’ period of the life course. Methods: Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse data from repeated interviews with unemployed young women, aged 16–33 years, during the 1980s and 1990s. These longitudinal interviews were part of a cohort study in a ‘remote’ municipality in Northern Sweden that began in 1981. All girls who were not in education, employment, or training were selected for interview. An inductive analysis phase was followed by a theoretically informed phase. The contextual frame is the Nordic welfare-state model and the ‘caring state’ with its particular focus on basic and secondary education, and women’s participation in the labour market. This focus paralleled high rates of youth unemployment in northern Sweden during the study period. Results: The results are presented as the theme of ‘constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions’. Within this theme, and framed by dominant norms of patriarchal femininity, we explored the constructs of normative and altruistic, norm-breaking, and troubled femininity. Conclusions: Gender-sensitive interventions are needed to strengthen young women’s further education and positions in the labour market and to preventing exposure to violence. More research on health experiences related to the multitude of constructs of femininities in various social contexts and across the life course is needed to help design and implement such interventions.

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I mean, you can’t behave at work the way you might have at school – you can’t go around saying ‘Shut up’, ‘Fuck off’, and stuff like that.

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Section: Results and Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions: exploring young femininities and health as shaped by marginalisation and social context. A qualitative study in Northern Sweden

Wiklund

Ahlgren

Hammarström

2018

Global Health Action

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Who's there? – Inclusive growth, ‘white rurality’ and reconstructing rural labour markets

Kvist

2020

Journal of Rural Studies

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How Gender Equal Is Sweden? An Analysis of the Shift in Focus under Neoliberalism

Lane

Jordansson

2020

Social Change

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Sweden’s proven ability to enact family-friendly policies to support its gender equality ambitions has made it an exemplar of gender equality to emulate among developing countries. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that while Swedish gender equality has become an important part of Swedish identity, paradoxically, the foundations upon which this identity was built has gradually been eroded––Sweden has shifted from a welfare state with collective solutions and inclusiveness towards one of neoliberal governmental rationalities where individual autonomy and freedom of choice are seen as means of achieving gender equality. This new direction has implications for how gender equality policy is formulated. Using Bacchi’s ‘What is the problem approach?’ this article traces the Swedish gender equality discourse from the 1960s to the present while at every stage interrogating how equality was problematised and what solutions were offered.

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From Emancipation through Employment to Emancipation through Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of the Special Labor Market Initiatives (BRYT) and Tax Deduction for Domestic Services (RUT) in Sweden

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions: exploring young femininities and health as shaped by marginalisation and social context. A qualitative study in Northern Sweden

Constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions: exploring young femininities and health as shaped by marginalisation and social context. A qualitative study in Northern Sweden

Who's there? – Inclusive growth, ‘white rurality’ and reconstructing rural labour markets

How Gender Equal Is Sweden? An Analysis of the Shift in Focus under Neoliberalism

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