Is Ursula von der Leyen really going too far?

Abstract

This article proposes to address the multiple issues challenging the provision of care facilities for children and the elderly in Germany. Is a paradigm change really taking place? Focusing on the specifics of the welfare system and considering the German feminist movements which traditionally are suspicious of state interventions and against the diminishment of femocrats initiatives, it will be argued that the degenderization of care duties might not be changing as rapidly as expected. New lines of oppression might develop that engage feminists to rethink the care issue which has evolved from one of gender and class to one of ethnicity and nationality.