Migrants attitudes towards female employment

Abstract

This chapter sheds light on whether and to what extent the 14 migrant groups studied in this book share attitudes towards women’s labour market participation with natives - and thereby whether they assimilate to natives’ welfare state attitudes in this area. The chapter thus contributes to the literature on the extent to which these migrant groups assimilate to a predominant value in the Danish welfare state context. Gender relations and family values figures as one of several important elements when discussing these outcomes. Concerns regarding gender roles and gender equality norms among migrants have also been prevalent in public and academic debates in Denmark - and all over Western Europe for a number of years. The overall finding of the chapter is, that most migrants in the 14 groups living in Denmark seem to support progressive gender norms and that their attitudes largely resemble the prevalent ones among native Danish.