Care Work in a Swedish Nursing Home : Gendered Norms and Expectations
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The picture of a traditional care worker is changing. Nowadays more men and immigrants of different backgrounds are working in nursing homes. This chapter describes and analyses how gender, interacting with ethnicity and sexuality, is expressed by male and female care workers in a Swedish nursing home. What kinds of feminine and masculine stereotypes occur and how is care constructed by different care workers? It seems that the intersection between various identity categories, such as gender, ethnicity and sexuality will create different opportunities and limitations for the care workers in the increasingly diverse nursing homes of the future.
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The picture of a traditional care worker is changing. Nowadays more men and immigrants of different backgrounds are working in nursing homes. This chapter describes and analyses how gender, interacting with ethnicity and sexuality, is expressed by male and female care workers in a Swedish nursing home. What kinds of feminine and masculine stereotypes occur and how is care constructed by different care workers? It seems that the intersection between various identity categories, such as gender, ethnicity and sexuality will create different opportunities and limitations for the care workers in the increasingly diverse nursing homes of the future.
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