ABSTRACT
One of the greatest changes that has taken place in gender relations is concerned with the care of children. Since the second feminist movement of the 1970s women have put the issue of exclusion of ‘one half of humankind’ from participation in societal matters on the political agenda. One of the main issues concerned their exclusion from the labour market because of the ideology of a gendered normal biography demanding a far reaching division of tasks between men and women: he the breadwinner; she the mother and housewife.
