ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the challenge from globalization to the Nordic welfare and gender regimes and discusses the potentials and limits of this approach to equality from historical and comparative perspectives. This in turn raises theoretical and normative questions about how to reframe the Nordic approach to equality and justice from intersectional and transnational perspectives. The chapter provides the historical roots of the emergence of the Nordic equality policies and welfare states from a dual class and gender perspective. It presents debates about contemporary challenges to equality policies against the background of changes in the political landscapes of the different Nordic countries. The chapter reflects upon the theoretical and normative challenges of redesigning the Nordic approach to equality and reframing equality policies. Social equality became a core value in the Nordic welfare states as these emerged in the middle of the twentieth century.
