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Taking care of the public/private split: Strategies to separate motherhood from work
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7336-8015
2008 (English)In: Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, no 3, p. 131-155Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

In 1969 the Swedish government opened up for municipalities to formally employ childminders. The history of this group of workers parallels the growth of women’s participation in the labour force and Swedish gender equality policies. But the history of childminders is also a story of strategies to separate private motherhood from professional day care. As the work of childminders take place in private homes, and as childminders almost always have children of their own to take care of – the division between motherhood and work needs to be constantly negotiated.

Public record material, union-employer-agreements and in-depth interviews with childminders are analysed in this article. From this material it is possible to conclude that the public/private-split is, in different ways, upheld at the policy level, at the level of labour market as well as in the everyday work practises of childminders. The article argues that childminders take great responsibility for u pholding the private/public division and that the institution and discourse of motherhood iscongruent with the private/public split and thus can be used as a strategic tool to uphold this division.

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Kyoto: Ritsumeikan University , 2008. no 3, p. 131-155
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-82627OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-82627DiVA, id: diva2:1435847
Available from: 2020-06-05 Created: 2020-06-05 Last updated: 2020-06-16Bibliographically approved

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