Dilemmas of citizenship:Tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state

Feministiske forskere har stillet vigtige spørgsmål om forholdet mellem multikulturalisme og lighed mellem køn og om forholdet mellem kvinders rettigheder og respekt for kulturel diversitet. Formålet med kapitlet er at diskutere udfordringerne fra immigration og multikulturalisme set fra de nordiske velfærdsstaters perspektiv gennem analyser af forholdet mellem lighed mellem køn og respekt for diversitet. Fokus er på de kønnede konflikter og spændinger mellem køn og etnicitet i den danske model for medborgerskab. Feminist scholarship has asked important questions about multiculturalism and gender equality and about the relation between women's rights and respect for cultural diversity. The objective of this chapter is to discuss the challenges from migration and multiculturalism from the context of the Nordic welfare states by looking at the tensions between gender equality and respect for diversity. The focus is on the gendered conflicts and tensions between gender and ethnicity in the Danish approach to citizenship