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- Edström, Charlotta, 1974-
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Is there more than just symbolic statements? : Gender equality as part of Swedish state educational politics
- 2005
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för lärarutbildning och forskning. - Umeå : Fakultetsnämnden för lärarutbildning vid Umeå universitet. - 1404-7659. ; :3, s. 103-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sweden is, in terms of gender equality, a country with an international reputation as a progressive country. This paper reports on an analysis of gender equality as part of Swedish state educational politics with a special focus on early years’ education. The first part of the paper is an introduction while the second part concentrates on the documentary analysis itself with the focal point being the period 1994–2004. The Swedish version of gender equality, jämställdhet, is visible in policy statements in different documents. Some statements are in line with more feminist interpretations while the formulations in the legally binding documents tend to be more open-ended. Concrete state measures aimed at achieving gender equality are generally more limited. Two stable foci are: getting more male staff into early years’ education and more girls into science and engineering. The mid 1990s onwards saw an increased emphasis on early years’ education and on gender equality.
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- Edström, Charlotta, 1974-
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Pedagogues’ constructions of gender equality in selected Swedish preschools : a qualitative study
- 2014
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Ingår i: Education Inquiry. - : Routledge. - 2000-4508. ; 5:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a small-scale qualitative study of gender equality discourses as constructed and employed by pedagogues in three Swedish preschools. The aim of the study is to describe and analyse the preschool pedagogues’ constructions of work on children's gender equality, while also examining local variations and the influence of societal discourses and structures on the more localised discourses used in the particular preschool settings. The goal is to highlight how the pedagogues, through statements and discussions in interviews and documents, construct and position themselves and the children in relation to different discourses and current norms. The study is based on interviews with nine pedagogues from three preschools and an analysis of documentation from these preschools. The pedagogues’ constructions of gender equality in interviews and documents mainly relate to preschool pedagogy, although there is also some consideration of the future labour market. The pedagogues position themselves as ‘lead characters’, and children as ‘recipients’ or as ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ who are to be treated either as unique individuals or as two uniform opposing groups. Gender-equal girls are positioned as strong(er), brave(r) and (more) independent, whilst gender-equal boys as (more) socially and linguistically competent. Although there are some differences between the preschools, in line with heteronormative masculinity the primary focus is on ‘redoing’ the girls, especially traditional ‘girly’ girls.
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- Edström, Charlotta, 1974-
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Preschool as an arena of gender policies : The examples of Sweden and Scotland
- 2009
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Ingår i: European Educational Research Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 1474-9041. ; 8:4, s. 534-549
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As many countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have developed more universal provision for early childhood education during the last decades, preschool increasingly has become a central policy arena. Gender politics, especially with an aim to promote female labour market participation, but also policies addressing children and preschool staff, constitute one vital aspect. This article analyses staff responsibilities for promoting gender equality inpreschool in Sweden and Scotland. These countries represent different welfare regimes, but also display common features, both influenced by tradition and recent transnational policies and discourses. Based on national policy documents from 1970 to the early 2000s, this study shows that gender equality has continuously been brought up in the Swedish context since the 1970s, but entered the Scottish context at a later stage. Since the late 1990s, such questions have been addressed in both countries. In both cases, teachers are constructed as role models who should promote certain gender values and provide children with opportunities. The Swedish curriculum places more emphasis on similarities between girls and boys, while the Scottish counterpart tends to emphasize difference more, paying attention to boys and the need for male role models. Scottish gender policies are influenced by the travelling discourse of ‘the boys’ underachievement crisis’, whereas Swedish gender policies in preschool demonstrate little of this.
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- Edström, Charlotta, 1974-, et al.
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The famous Nordic Gender Equality and what’s Nordic about it : Gender equality in Finnish and Swedish education
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Studies in Education. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 1891-5914 .- 1891-5949. ; 33:4, s. 300-313
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article highlights similarities in the politics and practices linked to gender equality in education in Finland and Sweden from the 1970s to the 2010s, with special consideration given to the alliance between heteronormativity and marketisation as well as their influence. State and gender equality project documentation is analysed. In both countries, the main focus of attention has, in line with heteronormativity, been on the labour market and the directing of the girls towards science and technology, along with publicly funded, short-term projects. The results indicate that the alliance between heteronormativity and marketisation has increasingly reproduced the genders as competing dichotomous categories with one sex losing to the benefit of the other.
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- Edström, Charlotta, et al.
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Troubling Gender Equality : Revisiting Gender Equality Work in the Famous Nordic Model Countries
- 2016
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Ingår i: Education as Change. - : UNISA Press. - 1682-3206 .- 1947-9417. ; 20:1, s. 10-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article concerns gender equality work, that is, those educational and workplace activities that involve the promotion of gender equality. It is based on research conducted in Sweden and Finland, and focuses on the period during which the public sector has become more market-oriented and project-based all over the Nordic countries. The consequences of this development on gender equality work have not yet been thoroughly analysed. Our joint empirical analysis is based on discourse-analytic methodology and two previous empirical studies. By analysing interviews conducted with people involved in gender equality work, this article emphasises the effects of market-oriented and project-based gender equality work in education and working life in Sweden and in Finland. The findings highlight an alliance between projectisation and heteronormativity that acts to regulate how gender equality ought to be talked about in order for its issues to be heard. A persistently constructed 'remedy' to 'the gender equality problem' is that girls and women are positioned as 'needing' to change more than boys and men, by adopting more traditionally 'masculine manners' and choosing to work in more 'masculine sectors'. The findings also show that the constitutive forces of these discourses provide little leeway for critical perspectives.
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- Edström, Sonja, et al.
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Antidepressants and survival in glioma : a registry-based retrospective cohort study
- 2024
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Ingår i: Neuro-Oncology Practice. - : Oxford University Press. - 2054-2577 .- 2054-2585. ; 11:2, s. 125-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Depression and treatment with antidepressant medication is common in patients with malignant glioma. However, the extent to which antidepressants may affect the disease is not fully understood. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate possible associations between treatment with antidepressant medication and survival in glioma patients.Methods: We performed a registry-based cohort study including 1231 patients with malignant glioma (WHO grade 2, 3 and 4) having undergone surgery, and 6400 matched controls without glioma. All data was extracted from the RISK North database, which contains information from multiple national population-based registries in Sweden.Results: Treatment with antidepressants is more common in patients with malignant glioma (27%), compared to controls (16%), p<.001. Treatment with antidepressants after surgery for glioma was significantly associated with poorer survival. These effects were observed both for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and non-SSRIs. In grade 4 glioma, SSRI treatment was associated with a HR of 3.32 (95% CI 2.69–4.10, p<.001), and non-SSRI treatment a HR of 3.54 (95% CI 2.52–4.99, p<.001), compared to glioma patients without antidepressants. In grade 2-3 glioma, the HR for SSRI treatment was 3.26 (95% CI 2.19–4.85, p<.001), and for non-SSRI treatment 7.71 (95% CI 4.22-14.12, p<.001).Conclusions: Our results demonstrate a negative association between antidepressant medication and survival in glioma. Further research will be needed to clarify causation.
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