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SammendragTildekker likestillingsargumentasjonen overfor minoritetskvinner en annen intensjon enn kjønnslikestilling? Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i en tekstanalyse av Meld. St. 6 (2012St. 6 ( -2013 En helhetlig integreringspolitikk. Mangfold og fellesskap. Analysen viser hvordan kjønnslikestilling brukes som et styringsprinsipp for å få flere minoritetskvinner i yrkesarbeid. Likestillingsdiskursen ser ut til å tildekke en antakelse om at minoritetskvinner kan ha en svak arbeidsmoral. Slik blir likestilling «løsningen» på et velferds-og integrasjonsproblem med tanke på de minoritetskvinnene som ikke «vil» arbeide, mens målsettingene om valgfrihet og mangfold i stor grad ser ut til å dreie seg om symbolikk.Nøkkelord: minoritetskvinner, likestilling, arbeidslinja, arbeidsmoral, valgfrihet Abstract: The work ethic disguised as gender equality? Do arguments for the gender equality of women from minorities have an altogether different intention? The point of departure for this article is text analysis of a Report to the Storting (white paper) no. 6 (2012-2013) A Coherent Integration Policy. Diversity and Community. It shows that gender equality is being used as a steering principle bringing women from minorities into the labour market. The gender equality discourse appears to conceal an assumption that these women have a poorly developed work ethic. In this way gender equality becomes the welfare and integration «solution» for women from minorities «not willing» to enter the labour market, while the goal of freedom of choice and diversity is to involve only symbolic gestures.

Alongside the publicly service, supplementary and alternative models have arisen in the welfare state. This article considers aspects of privatization within the social services field, based on qualitative interviews with seven Norwegian social workers who today work as private consultants. The study reveals private consultancy as a professional strategy, through improved career and salary prospects, and where professional independence, higher appreciation of the professions competency and improved earnings are given as motives. The interview subjects point at how bureaucracy can both steer and inhibit the position, and how they, through private consultancy can regain their professional identity and self-esteem. The study additionally points to other and "new" ways in approaching the values and methodology of the field, as through privatization one can utilize the versatility and depth of knowledge from social work, used in untraditional ways and settings.