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Empowering or depleting women's work? Public sector reform and small-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish eldercare
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7770-9195
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4463-1301
Number of Authors: 22023 (English)In: Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment / [ed] Hazel Conley; Paula Koskinen Sandberg, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, p. 108-121Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter critically explores assumptions underpinning Swedish eldercare policies that small-scale entrepreneurship advances women’s and immigrants’ position in the economy. In contrast, the chapter shows that small-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish home care, in various ways, causes harm to women and immigrant business operators. The harm can be summarised in three main points; (1) small-scale entrepreneurship deprives women and immigrant business operators of financial resources; (2) small-scale entrepreneurship contributes to the undervaluation of care work performed by women and immigrants; and (3) small-scale entrepreneurship particularly harms immigrant women, who are not only deprived of financial resources but also drained of emotional and physical resources. Therefore, the chapter concludes that, in practice, small-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish eldercare transfers risks and responsibilities for care services back to individual women, which is a complete reversal of how the Swedish state hitherto has supported gender equality.

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. p. 108-121
Keywords [en]
Gender equality, Care work, Care professionalism, Marketisation, Intersectionality, Welfare policy
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Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-236664DOI: 10.4337/9781800378230.00017Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85182092487ISBN: 9781800378223 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-236664DiVA, id: diva2:1918593
Available from: 2024-12-05 Created: 2024-12-05 Last updated: 2024-12-05Bibliographically approved

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