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- Engström, Lars-Gunnar, 1965-, et al.
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Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Extended Working Life Policies. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030409852 - 9783030409845 ; , s. 439-447
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Extended working life in Sweden is discussed using the old age pension reform of 2001 and debates and policies following this reform as a starting point. Extended working life is also discussed in relation to flexible work, unpaid caregiving, employers’ attitudes toward older workers and working environment. The implications of different outcomes of an extended working life for men and women and possible health effects are considered. Several issues with gender as well as health implications have to be further analyzed and evaluated to ensure not only financial sustainability of the pension system but also equal opportunities for men as well as for women both in an extended working life and in life after retirement.
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- Krekula, Clary, 1959-, et al.
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Communicating equality through policy documents : On legitimacy, double logic and stable translations
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 26:11, s. 1606-1620
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses gender mainstreaming (GMS) as a strategy to implement gender equality in public work organizations by analysing discourse in terms of the theoretical notions of translation and circulation in organizations to shed light on how gender equality and the mainstreaming strategy are formulated in the documents which govern the Swedish fire and rescue services. More specifically, it looks at how the goals regarding gender equality are circulated and translated. The results show that gender equality as a practice is created in the translation of national goals in terms of the local context and its specific gender equality challenges. Furthermore, the article discusses how vague formulations in the documents are stabilized through circulation between the government and the public agency in question. The results indicate the central role played by maintaining stable translations over time and the presence of a double logic of change in the processes, as well as the importance of legitimizing gender equality initiatives.
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- Brandheim, Susanne, 1965-
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A systemic stigmatization of fat people
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this work was to develop knowledge about and awareness of fatness stigmatization from a systemic perspective. The stigmatization of fat people was located as a social problem in a second-order reality in which human fatness is observed and responded to, in turn providing it with negative meaning. Four separate studies of processes involved in this systemic stigmatization were performed.In study I, the association between weight and psychological distress was investigated. When controlling for an age-gender variable, this association was almost erased, questioning the certainty by which a higher weight in general is approached as a medical issue. In study II, the focus was on stigma internalization where negative and positive responses combined were connected to fat individuals’ distress. We found that both responses seemed to have a larger impact on fat individuals, suggesting that the embodied stigma of being fat sensitizes them to responses in general. In study III, justifications of fatness stigmatization was explored by a content analysis of a reality TV weight-loss show. The analysis showed how explicit bullying of a fat partner could be justified by animating the thin Self as violated by the fat Other, thus downplaying the evils of the bullying act in favor of highlighting the ideological value of thinness.The implications of these studies were related and seated in a context comprising a historical aversion toward the fat body, a declared obesity epidemic, a new public health ideology, a documented failure to reverse this obesity epidemic, and a market of weight-loss stakeholders who thrive on keeping the negative meanings of being fat alive. The stigmatization of fat people was intelligible from a systemic perspective, where processes of structural ignorance, internalized self-discrimination, and applied prejudice reinforce each other to form a larger stigmatizing process. In paper IV, it was argued that viewing fatness stigmatization as oppression rather than misrecognition could hold transformative keys to social change.
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- Grip, Lena, 1978-, et al.
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The woman as problem and solution : Analysis of a gender equality initiative within the Swedish Rescue Services
- 2016
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Ingår i: NORA. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 24:2, s. 95-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to study how problem definitions of gender equality affect the possible outcomes of gender equality initiatives. The Swedish Municipal Rescue Services were chosen as the empirical example because they offer a workplace where women are greatly under-represented despite years of gender equality efforts. The article analyses how reasoning around gender equality shapes and constructs problem formulations around gender and equality. This article contributes to the debate on the conditions of gender equality founded on gender equality definitions, and how this relates to the potential for change. The gender equality efforts within the Rescue Services are problematized based on Bacchi’s policy analysis model. We do so by analysing the applications attracted by a call for a gender equality initiative within the Municipal Rescue Services—A Fire Station for Everyone. The article argues that, to some extent, the problem definitions in this case undermine gender equality initiatives as they place women—whom they wish to recruit to the Rescue Services to make it more gender equal in a numerical sense—in a paradoxical position as both problem and solution. Nor do they problematize power issues. It is stated that the given problem descriptions do not leave a lot of room for change, but that the method used to analyse the problem descriptions can be an important tool for understanding why gender equality initiatives may struggle to achieve their intended objectives.
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Jämställdhet, mångfald och svenska räddningstjänster : Om föreställningar och förändringsviljor
- 2012
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna skrift avrapporterar en delundersökning inom forskningsprojektet GeRd – ”Den genuskodade räddningstjänsten”. GeRd är ett mångvetenskapligt forskningsprojekt som bedrivs vid Karlstads universitet. Projektet syftar till att identifiera förutsättningarna för jämställdhet och mångfald inom svenska räddningstjänster, och vidare till att identifiera förändringsmöjligheter. Forskarna ser det också som avgörande att bidra med kunskap som bygger på praktisk erfarenhet och som fortlöpande förs ut i verksamheterna.Resultaten i denna rapport baseras huvudsakligen på en omfattande enkät som distribuerades till olika personalkategorier i 25 stycken slumpvis utvalda räddningstjänster i Sverige våren 2011. Rapporten ger därmed en kvantitativ bild av skilda förhållanden inom räddningstjänsterna i relation till jämställdhet och mångfald, något som tidigare saknats. Den besvarades av 1176 anställda inom räddningstjänsterna. Av dessa var 38 procent heltidsanställda brandmän, 24 procent var räddningspersonal i beredskap, 30 procent fanns i operativ arbetsledning och 5 procent i annan ej operativ tjänst. 94 procent av de som besvarat enkäten var män och 6 procent kvinnor.Rapportens 13 kapitel påvisar tydliga skillnader, både mellan olika räddningstjänster och mellan olika personalkategorier inom dem, beträffande inställningen till det förändringsarbete som pågår i organisationerna. Samtidigt finns övergripande mönster och tendenser i materialet. Resultaten diskuteras i relation till aktuell forskning och teoribildning.
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