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- Lundgren, Britta, 1951-, et al.
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Inledning
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Ingår i: Möjligheter och mellanrum. - Stockholm : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170613272 ; , s. 7-18
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Sörlin, Ann, et al.
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Can the impact of gender equality on health be measured? a cross-sectional study comparing measures based on register data with individual survey-based data
- 2012
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Ingår i: BMC Public Health. - : BioMed Central. - 1471-2458. ; 12:1, s. 795-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate potential associations between gender equality at work and self-rated health. METHODS: 2861 employees in 21 companies were invited to participate in a survey. The mean response rate was 49.2%. The questionnaire contained 65 questions, mainly on gender equality and health. Two logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess associations between (i) self-rated health and a register-based company gender equality index (OGGI), and (ii) self-rated health and self-rated gender equality at work. RESULTS: Even though no association was found between the OGGI and health, women who rated their company as "completely equal" or "quite equal" had higher odds of reporting "good health" compared to women who perceived their company as "not equal" (OR = 2.8, 95% confidence interval = 1.4 -- 5.5 and OR = 2.73, 95% CI = 1.6-4.6). Although not statistically significant, we observed the same trends in men. The results were adjusted for age, highest education level, income, full or part-time employment, and type of company based on the OGGI. CONCLUSIONS: No association was found between gender equality in companies, measured by register-based index (OGGI), and health. However, perceived gender equality at work positively affected women's self-rated health but not men's. Further investigations are necessary to determine whether the results are fully credible given the contemporary health patterns and positions in the labour market of women and men or whether the results are driven by selection patterns.
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- Sörlin, Ann, et al.
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Gender equality in couples and self-rated health : a survey study evaluating measurements of gender equality and its impact on health
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Ingår i: International Journal for Equity in Health. - : BioMed Central. - 1475-9276. ; 10:Art.nr. 37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Men and women have different patterns of health. These differences between the sexes present a challenge to the field of public health. The question why women experience more health problems than men despite their longevity has been discussed extensively, with both social and biological theories being offered as plausible explanations. In this article, we focus on how gender equality in a partnership might be associated with the respondents' perceptions of health.Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey with 1400 respondents. We measured gender equality using two different measures: 1) a self-reported gender equality index, and 2) a self-perceived gender equality question. The aim of comparison of the self-reported gender equality index with the self-perceived gender equality question was to reveal possible disagreements between the normative discourse on gender equality and daily practice in couple relationships. We then evaluated the association with health, measured as self-rated health (SRH). With SRH dichotomized into 'good' and 'poor', logistic regression was used to assess factors associated with the outcome. For the comparison between the self-reported gender equality index and self-perceived gender equality, kappa statistics were used.Results: Associations between gender equality and health found in this study vary with the type of gender equality measurement. Overall, we found little agreement between the self-reported gender equality index and self-perceived gender equality. Further, the patterns of agreement between self-perceived and self-reported gender equality were quite different for men and women: men perceived greater gender equality than they reported in the index, while women perceived less gender equality than they reported. The associations to health were depending on gender equality measurement used.Conclusions: Men and women perceive and report gender equality differently. This means that it is necessary not only to be conscious of the methods and measurements used to quantify men's and women's opinions of gender equality, but also to be aware of the implications for health outcomes.
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- Sörlin, Ann, 1956-
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Health and the elusive gender equality : Can the impact of gender equality on health be measured?
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: All over the world men and women show different health patterns, and therecan be many and various reasons for these differences. This thesis therefore evaluates theimpact of gender equality on health. To do this, we must be able to measure gender equality.In this thesis, we develop two new measurements of gender equality and evaluate the relationshipbetween gender equality and health.Methods: Two cross-sectional studies, one register-based and one survey study, are used tocompare different measurements of gender equality and different measurements of health,and the relationship between them. Differences between men and women in relation to healthoutcome are also discussed in the thesis. The register study, comprising 1 097 202 individuals,is based on public registers and includes information on workplace, income, sickness absence,full-time/part-time work, level of education, parental leave and temporary parental leave.A gender equality measurement, the Organizational Gender Gap Index or OGGI, was constructedand 123 companies in two sectors were ranked using the index. Employees in 21 of the mostand least gender-equal companies were invited to participate in a survey. A second genderequality index was constructed based on respondents’ own reports regarding gender equalityin their partner relationship. The variables measured were income, full-time/part-time work,educational level, and responsibilities for and sharing of household duties and parental leave.Both indices were evaluated using the single question: How gender equal is your workplace/your relationship with your partner? The four measurements were dichotomized and testedfor a relationship to health. Health was measured by three different measurements: registerbasedsickness absence, self-reported sickness absence in the past year, and self-rated health.Results: The thesis has produced two new measurements of gender equality, described above.On gender equality in the partner relationship, we found a difference between men and women.Men perceive higher gender equality than they report, while women report more gender equalitythan they perceive. When it comes to gender equality at work, we found that employees perceivetheir company to be more gender equal than the OGGI index shows. This thesis confirms thefindings that men have better health than women regardless of measurement. However, inthis study we also found that increased gender equality decreases these differences. If employeesperceive their company to be gender equal, they have higher odds of rating their health asgood, and this is especially so for women.Conclusion: This thesis supports the hypothesis that differences in health between men andwomen can be related to a lack of gender equality. When men and women have differentpossibilities and power to shape society and their own lives, their health will be affected throughembodiment of both biological and sociological determinants in accordance with the eco-socialtheory. Increased gender equality will decrease the differences in health between men andwomen through convergence. The theory of convergence explains why men and women areaffected differently by greater gender equality. Greater gender equality will also decrease thesocial injustice between men and women and improve justice in accordance with the theoryof justice to gender.The differences found between the indices and the single question on perceived genderequality make clear the need for “hard facts” as an complement to people’s own views on gender equality.
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- Sörlin, Ann, et al.
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Measuring the gender gap in organizations
- 2011
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Ingår i: Gender in Management. - Bingley : Emerald. - 1754-2413 .- 1754-2421. ; 26:4, s. 275-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to present a register‐based index that could provide a practical tool for gathering information and increasing our knowledge on gender equality at organizational level.Design/methodology/approachBased on Swedish gender policy and information available in public registers, six variables were chosen. For each variable, a gender gap was calculated as the ratio between the sexes, with the larger figure always treated as numerator. The study population consisted of 11,471 persons in 46 companies working in the computer sector, and 32,151 individuals in 77 companies employed in the grocery production sector.FindingsThe results show indices of 1.43‐2.09 for the computer sector and of 1.13‐2.14 for the grocery production sector, both with a normal distribution (one is considered fully gender equal and three least gender equal). Added together, the selected variables provide results that are sufficiently different to enable ranking. The variables vary in importance in the two sectors compared. The smallest index variation was for education and salaries; the largest was for parental leave and the number of men and women employed at the companies.Originality/valueThe index is based on public registers, treats men and women symmetrically, and the results generated by the index are easy to communicate to all stakeholders. This research could provide a useful tool for investigating the extent to which men and women differ in certain variables at company level.
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- Sörlin, Ann, et al.
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Sickness absence in gender-equal companies : a register study at organizational level
- 2011
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Ingår i: BMC Public Health. - : BioMed Central. - 1471-2458. ; 11, s. 548-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The differences in sickness absence between men and women in Sweden have attracted a great deal of interest nationally in the media and among policymakers over a long period. The fact that women have much higher levels of sickness absence has been explained in various ways. These explanations are contextual and one of the theories points to the lack of gender equality as an explanation. In this study, we evaluate the impact of gender equality on health at organizational level. Gender equality is measured by an index ranking companies at organizational level; health is measured as days on sickness benefit.Methods: Gender equality was measured using the Organizational Gender Gap Index or OGGI, which is constructed on the basis of six variables accessible in Swedish official registers. Each variable corresponds to a key word illustrating the interim objectives of the "National Plan for Gender Equality", implemented by the Swedish Parliament in 2006. Health is measured by a variable, days on sickness benefit, also accessible in the same registers.Result: We found significant associations between company gender equality and days on sickness benefit. In gender-equal companies, the risk for days on sickness benefit was 1.7 (95% CI 1.6-1.8) higher than in gender-unequal companies. The differences were greater for men than for women: OR 1.8 (95% CI 1.7-2.0) compared to OR 1.4 (95% CI 1.3-1.5).Conclusions: Even though employees at gender-equal companies had more days on sickness benefit, the differences between men and women in this measure were smaller in gender-equal companies. Gender equality appears to alter health patterns, converging the differences between men and women.
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- Andersson, Ann-Helén, 1979-
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"Jag är baserad på verkliga personer" : Ironi och röstgivande i Kristina Lugns författarskap
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ”I am based on real people,” Kristina Lugn writes in the foreword to her play Nattorienterarna (1999). This quotation summarises the ever-changing concept of the ego which finds expression in Lugn’s writing and which is the focus of this study. Special emphasis is placed on the way in which Lugn tackles the concept of the ego in both her work and her appearances in the media, and also how in recent years she has taken to greater depths this playing with the ego’s changing forms and has, in an ironic way, created different egos which are constant in neither time nor space. The thesis is in part a text analysis of Lugn’s lyrics and drama and in part an examination of Lugn’s appearances in the media – and, in the case of the latter, it touches on intermedial aspects. The analysis discusses how Lugn expresses in different ways in her appearances in the media pathos for groups seen as potentially isolated and vulnerable, of which children constitute a particularly charged category. One argument in this reasoning is that Lugn’s constant nods at and incorporating of the exposed and solitary child’s experience of society’s norms and power order structures is a basis and a reason for the explosive power in her ironic delivery of a critique of power, in her questioning and shaking up of the ordered roles of gender. The purpose of the thesis is to examine the irony and what can be characterised as “the giving of voice” in Kristina Lugn’s literary production, and also how these devices hang together. One chief question is whether it can be viewed that Lugn’s irony is used both as a means of style and as a (literary) political strategy. The concept of the giving of voice is used to illustrate the way in which Lugn as author and role player allows her personae and characters to speak, often in situations of her devising where they are, and feel they are, powerless in different senses, even though she has inevitably, in her capacity as author, the power to edit and dictate. A secondary aim is to present a more nuanced and in-depth picture of Lugn’s writing than that done so far in the reception given Lugn in the media. The study focuses attention on Lugn’s ironic stage-setting of ego positions and the constant playing with fiction and reality which characterises her writing. This is in contrast to the early reception of Lugn as a depressive confessional lyricist, where the fictitious personae were very much likened to the biographical figure of Lugn. Part of this revisionist picture includes a discussion about how central the position of the child is in both Lugn’s work and her appearances in the media. Irony and the giving of voice in her writing is discussed and illustrated with examples from a selection of Lugn’s literary works. Focus is placed on the poetry collections Om ni hör ett skott… (1979), Percy Wennerfors (1982) and Hundstunden. Kvinnlig bekännelselyrik (1989), and also on the theatre scripts Tant Blomma (1993), Idlaflickorna (1993), Nattorienterarna (1999) and Stulna juveler (2000). The selection of the material in the media consists of TV and radio programmes in public service broadcasting and also daily newspapers, evening papers and weekly magazines. An examination of this material is made on the basis of three points in time: that of Lugn’s literary breakthrough as a lyricist; i.e. 1983 and the period around then, the 1990s in connection with Lugn’s transition from primarily that of lyricist to that of dramatist, and the period around the turn of the millennium in connection with the première performance of the play Stulna juveler.
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- Andersson, Erik, 1979-, et al.
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Kollegialt Lärande i Örebros Skolor – KLÖS-projektet : Hur kan lärares kollegiala lärprocesser stödjas i syfte att skapa hållbara strukturer för utvecklingsarbete?
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Projektet KLÖS har undersökt hur lärares kollegiala lärprocesser kan stödjas i syfte att skapa hållbara strukturer för utvecklingsarbete. Målet var att skapa en Örebromodell för kollegialt lärande. En avslutande reflektion kring resultatet är att etableringen av denna modell kräver ett omfattande engagemang och tar tid att få på plats. Det är vår uppfattning att ett flertal aspekter återstår att undersöka. Bland annat är det intressant att undersöka hur arbetet med det kollegiala lärandet fortskrider på pilotskolan. Frågor som är intressanta är: Vilka faktorer har betydelse för att arbetet med kollegialt lärande ska bli permanent och fungera som ett naturligt sätt att arbeta med utveckling av praktiken? Vad blir resultatet av de utvecklingsomgångar som genomförts? Hur följs detta resultat upp och leder det till bestående gynnsamma förändringar? Frågorna handlar om hållbarhet och därmed om hur projektet går från att vara ett projekt som avslutas och glöms bort till att bli ett levande verktyg för utvecklingsarbete som kan göra en verklig skillnad i och för praktiken över tid. Eftersom mycket tid och resurser används till utvecklingsarbete i skolan är det viktigt att det arbete som görs verkligen leder till en konkret och för verksamheten gynnsam förändring. Det innebär att frågan om utvecklings- arbetets hållbarhet är en av de viktigaste frågorna. Det verktyg som utvecklats i projektet och som kommit att symbolisera det kollegiala arbetet på pilotskolan är KLÖS-hjulet. Frågan om hur KLÖS-hjulet 2.0 kan utvecklas och anpassas så att det verkligen blir ett flexibelt och användbart verktyg för att stötta det kollegiala lärandet är kanske den alla viktigaste konkreta frågan. Frågor som är besläktade med frågan om hållbarhet är de som syftar till att undersöka hur det kollegiala lärandet kan bli mer robust. Till dessa hör frågor om hur lärledarens roll kan förstärkas, hur verktyg som stöttar lärares observation och analys av den egna verksamheten kan designas, hur ansvar och engagemang på alla nivåer kan förstärkas och bli synligt samt hur arbetet med kollegialt lärande kan utvärderas. Vi har under projektets gång sett hur lärare behöver stöd i arbetet med att systematiskt identifiera behov i verksamheten för att sedan utforska möjligheter att utveckla och förändra praktiken. Medverkan från forskare som ställt frågor, problematiserat och belyst olika perspektiv har i flera fall varit avgörande för hur ett utvecklingsbehov har identifierats, avgränsats och formulerats som en undersökningsbar fråga. Det är av avgörande betydelse att utvecklingsarbetet inte står och faller med denna medverkan. Verksamheten måste själv ta fram strukturer för hur lärare och lärledare får ett tillfredsställande stöd i sitt utvecklingsarbete så att de har möjlighet att göra kollegialt lärande till en naturlig del av sitt arbete där de känner sig så bekanta med KLÖS-hjulet att de själva kan ställa de frågor som krävs. Således behöver många funktioner, både centralt och lokalt samverka för att vidareutveckla och stötta kollegialt lärande för att utveckla undervisningen i Örebro skolor.
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