ABSTRACT
Gender division of work in households has been the norm in years without any great outspoken concern – except from feminists – and regarded as a matter of private agreement within households. Gender division of paid work has by contrast become a more and more important issue in public debate and politics. This is reflected in an enormous amount of literature within the last 20 years on segregation and how to measure segregation (see among others Jenson et al., 1988; Walby, 1990; Rees, 1992; Blackburn et al., 1993; Walby 1997; Gonäs et al., 1999; Rubery et al., 1999; Gonäs et al., 2001; Blackburn et al., 2002; Charles, 2003; and Löfström, 2004 for discussion and further references).
