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Table 2 Examples of Meaning Units, Codes, Category and Theme

From: Gender (in)equality among employees in elder care: implications for health

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But isn't it that you have a certain predisposition for some things.

Predisposition

Gendered Specialization

Justifying gender inequalities with individualism

There are some [of the elderly], that don't have any relatives, that have ragged clothes and things like that, but all of us can't sew, that's the way it is, and then those who can sew can do it.

Using sewing skills

  

Hair is a typical women's job. If we take that.

Women's job

  

I mean, of course a man could learn how to do that as well but he can be much better at something else that a woman is much worse at.

Gendered competences

  

Then you might as well do a swap of work tasks.

Swap of work tasks