Gender Equality and Inequality in Kosovo

Abstract

According to them, "[Women] became targets of interpolation into 'mothers who should ensure the biological survival and progress of the nation' and the 'guardians of home and privacy.' [...]instead of the former (mostly economically enforced) 'proletarianism' and (politically enforced) 'emancipation,' an ideological model of domestication of women was introduced" (Hassenstab, Ramet, & Hassenstab, 2015, 49). The authors also highlighted high levels of unemployment during the shift to a market economy, which likely served as further justification for these changes, ensuring that men were more likely to have jobs at the expense of women. [...]after the rise of the market economy, opposition to socialism was used to link these policies with the specter of socialism, fomenting opposition to providing these benefits to women (Hassenstab, Ramet, & Hassenstab, 2015).