@article{Elomäki_Mesiäislehto_2022, title={The COVID-19 crisis and gender equality in Finland}, volume={15}, url={https://fjsr.journal.fi/article/view/125105}, DOI={10.51815/fjsr.125105}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">This article assesses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on gender equality in Finland, based on the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">findings of a research project funded by the government’s analysis, assessment and research activities. Finland provides an interesting case, as in some respects it could be argued to represent the best-case </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">scenario. The article shows that the employment and social impacts of the crisis were gendered, and that </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">the crisis made visible long-term gender equality problems in the Finnish society. The article suggests that the impacts on gender equality were nevertheless relatively small and short term. The lightness of the restriction measures, high levels of gender equality, and the Finnish welfare state contributed to this outcome, even if the protection provided by these factors was not complete. Despite the Finnish government’s commitment to advancing gender equality, the adopted recovery and support measures were not particularly gender sensitive. </span></p> </div> </div> </div>}, journal={Finnish Journal of Social Research}, author={Elomäki, Anna and Mesiäislehto, Merita}, year={2022}, month={Dec.}, pages={63–72} }