Scandinavian transformations: Labour markets, politics and gender divisions

How robust are the Scandinavian models of women's labour market integration at a time of increasing external pressures? Scandinavia has had the record of the highest employment rates among women in the industrialized world, w hich has traditionally been explained by Scandinavian countries' particular political-institutional models. This article analyses continuity and chang e in gender divisions in employment, unemployment and flexible work forms i n Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the turbulent 1990s, and discusses these pa tterns in relation to (re)configurations of policy frameworks.