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The process of tertiarization stands in a mutually reinforcing but nevertheless contradictory relation with the decreasing gender inequality. On the one hand, women are being integrated into the labor market through the expansion of service jobs, which at the same time increases the demand for household-related and social services in particular. On the other hand, the pronounced request for flexible work in many service sectors corresponds with the gender regimes prevailing in many countries, which predominantly support only partial participation of women in the labor force. The resulting fragmented service labor markets with de-standardized employment relationships and incomes that do not provide a living wage, however, do not fundamentally contribute to the elimination of gender inequality. Even the comparative advantage of women in terms of communicative and interactive skills, which is commonly assumed at first, has less of a positive effect on their labor market integration than might be expected because the social construction of gender largely involves the devaluation of the typically feminine.