Outshoorn, J.

This article analyzes to what extent the "care-gap"-that is, too few carers looking after increasing numbers of the elderly has become part of the problem definition of the demographic shift in the Netherlands in reports of the major scientific policy advisor to the government. Do these reports still assume a gender order in which women are informal carers and men are breadwinners? What notions about gender are circulating, and is the gender order challenged by policy recommendations?