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Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2022
This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of women in the militar... more This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of
women in the military professions in Scandinavia and Finland,
investigating the shifting roles played by military labour demands and
politics of gender equality. It provides the first comparative overview of
these developments in the Nordic region. The analysis demonstrates
the importance of historical continuity in women’s military participation.
Due to military labour demands, women were throughout the post-war
decades recruited into a range of auxiliary, voluntary and hybrid
capacities in the Scandinavian armed forces. The reforms opening the
military professions to women in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the
1970s were the outcome of a double crisis, as military needs for the
regulation of these women’s organisational status coincided with new
political demands for gender equality in the labour market.
Corresponding reforms in Finland were delayed by the country’s lack of
continuity in women’s military participation as well as its sufficient
supply of male military personnel. A common Nordic model of gender
and military work nonetheless emerged in the 1990s, marked by equal
rights to military participation for women on a voluntary basis,
combined with mandatory military conscription for men.
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2022
This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of women in the militar... more This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of
women in the military professions in Scandinavia and Finland,
investigating the shifting roles played by military labour demands and
politics of gender equality. It provides the first comparative overview of
these developments in the Nordic region. The analysis demonstrates
the importance of historical continuity in women’s military participation.
Due to military labour demands, women were throughout the post-war
decades recruited into a range of auxiliary, voluntary and hybrid
capacities in the Scandinavian armed forces. The reforms opening the
military professions to women in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the
1970s were the outcome of a double crisis, as military needs for the
regulation of these women’s organisational status coincided with new
political demands for gender equality in the labour market.
Corresponding reforms in Finland were delayed by the country’s lack of
continuity in women’s military participation as well as its sufficient
supply of male military personnel. A common Nordic model of gender
and military work nonetheless emerged in the 1990s, marked by equal
rights to military participation for women on a voluntary basis,
combined with mandatory military conscription for men.