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Abstract

Gender equality policies risk contributing to the reproduction of gender inequality. This is what I will call the Gordic Knot of gender equality. It is caused by the paradox that the policy reproduces the binary understanding of gender and that gender discourse creates the conditions for what is meaningful to say, do and change. In the article I discuss how Nancy Fraser’s theory of justice can help in solving this paradox and the dilemmas following it. I also criticise Fraser and add new perspectives and tools based on research into the labour movement in Denmark and Britain.