Population ageing represents fundamental challenges for future long-term care. Needs threaten to exceed the resources of the family and the welfare state. The present gender bias in care provision is hardly sustainable for ageing societies, and new forms of social inequalities may arise and conflict with other priority goals such as a fair distribution of public services and equal opportunities in work for women and men. This motivates an interest in exploring the interaction between formal and informal c are from a gender perspective. The present project will investigate the barriers and possibilities for equal opportunities in long-term care. The project is organized along three main issues: (i) the gendered nature of formal and informal long-term care, (ii) the gendered effects of informal care on labor force participation, and (iii) the gendered effects of user fees. The main empirical basis of the project is the LOGG and NorLAG surveys supplied with contextual data on municipalities and qualitative in terviews. The surveys provide rich data, indicators and measurements on care exchanges, norms and values, labor force participation and other issues relevant for the present proposal. An additional ambition of the project is to inform policies that will s upport equal access to, fair consequences of, and a fair distribution of, public benefits in this area.