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- Blomqvist, Martha, et al.
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"You Feel The Threat From Asia". Onshore Experiences of IT Offshoring To India
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 2245-0157. ; 5:4, s. 41-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the experiences of employees and managers in Swedish companies that offshore IT services to India, focusing on how implementation of offshoring is changing the work organization and working conditions for software developers onsite. Our analysis highlights the fact that the working conditions have been significantly redesigned in several different ways because of offshoring, most obviously due to the need for knowledge transfer between the onshore and the offshore working sites. The study illustrates how employees and managers onsite utilized different strategies for knowledge transfer and how these strategies were more or less successful, sometimes due to resistance from employees. The article concludes that, although offshoring contributed to a separation of conception from execution in these companies, there were few signs of routinization of daily work tasks for onsite employees. Instead, it was the routinized and noncore tasks that were offshored while project management tasks were taken over by onsite staff, which meant that they ended up in a superior position vis-à-vis their Indian colleagues as new global hierarchies were created. Power relations at work, both within firms and between firms, are thus brought to light.
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- Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer, et al.
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Micro Change Agents for Gender Equality : Transforming European Research Performing Organizations
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Sociology. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 2297-7775. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the experiences of micro change agents for gender equality in seven European Research Performing Organizations in seven different countries. The micro change agents were all participants of an international collaborative project consortium, implementing gender equality plans (GEPs), and funded by the European Commission during 4 years. The analysis draws on empirical data consisting of information submitted by the micro change agents during these 4 years and collected using three different monitoring tools, developed within the project to follow the progress of the implementation efforts, but also to provide an arena for individual and collaborative reflection and knowledge exchange between the partners. The aim of the article is to present a systematic analysis of the change practices that these micro change agents experienced as useful and important for promoting gender equality in their different organizational contexts. A total of six such micro change practices are identified, emerging from the empirical data: 1. communicating, 2. community building, 3. building trust and legitimacy, 4. accumulating and using resources, 5. using and transferring knowledge, and 6. drawing on personal motivation. The findings illustrate the multifaceted character of micro change agency for gender equality, particularly in a time-limited project context with a designated funding period. The results from this study can be useful when developing gender equality strategies, policies and practices and can also be used to empower gender equality micro change agents that face challenges while trying to implement GEPs and promote structural change in any kind of institution.
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- Dahmen-Adkins, Jennifer, et al.
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Most Significant Change: Closing the Gender Gap in Research
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Gender Research ICGR 2019. - Reading, UK : Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. - 2516-2802 .- 2516-2810. - 9781912764150
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- Engwall, Kristina, et al.
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Är det privata politiskt? : Barnfri i ett barnvänligt samhälle
- 2011
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Umeå : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 18:2, s. 126-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Childfree in a “child-friendly” society “Children are the future!” In Sweden there is a political ambition to make it possible for men and women to reconcile work with parenthood. As in many other countries, there is also a pronatalistic discourse where children are seen as an important contribution to the future nation. How do child-free women and men experience living in a “child-friendly” society? If children are perceived as a contribution to society, what do childfree people offer society? Do the childfree experience a dichotomy between childfree people and parents? The article draws on interviews with 30 childfree women and six childfree men. It discusses three issues: the labour market, the Swedish redistributive tax system and how childfree argue about their contribution to society. Childfree women and men accept that parents have problems reconciling work with parenthood, but sometimes get irritated that their time is less valued than parents’. They argue in favour of a “childfriendly” society, but are more hesitant about a “parent friendly” labour market. Likewise, the interviewed Swedish child-free men and women accept the tax system whereby they support children and their families. The interviewees reject the idea that having biological children is the only way to be useful to society and give other examples such as voluntary work, helping out other children and paying taxes. Some of them have also noticed how the pronatalistic discourse, often on the Internet, is underpinned by racist arguments. Compared to the USA, there are very few Swedish childfree communities on the Internet. The harsher arguments of the pros and cons of parenthood are instead written as comments on Internet articles. A more open discussion between parents and childfree women and men might open up for more political standpoints concerning childfreeness.
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Frivillig barnlöshet : Barnfrihet i en nordisk kontext
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Frivillig barnlöshet. - Stockholm : Dialogos Förlag. - 9789175042299 ; , s. 389-399
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Varför avstår vissa från att skaffa barn, hur reagerar omgivningen på detta och hur vanligt är det? Forskarna har vidare studerat skillnaderna mellan mäns och kvinnors barnfrihet och beskriver också hur media skildrar frågan.De nordiska länderna har en politisk ambition att underlätta kombinationen yrkesarbete och föräldraskap. Det finns en strävan att skapa ett "barnvänligt" samhälle. Trots detta väljer omkring 5% av männen och kvinnorna i Sverige att inte skaffa barn.Flera av de intervjuade barnfria beskriver ett socialt tryck. Att aktivt välja att inte skaffa barn är ett livsval som ifrågasätts. Främst kvinnorna upplever kritik och blir anklagade för att vara kalla, egoistiska och "konstiga". Det är problematiskt för många att hantera omgivningens reaktioner. I vårt samhälle finns fortfarande en stark kärnfamiljsnorm som gör att de frivilligt barnlösa kan uppleva sig som ifrågasatta och osynliggjorda i samhället, säger forskarna.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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GRANTeD - Grant Allocation Disparities from a Gender Perspective : Synthesis report on contextual factors, gender equality policy analysis and gender bias risk analysis (Deliverable 5.1.)
- 2022
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- The project GRANteD (Grant Allocation Disparities from a Gender Perspective) started in January 2019, funded within the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, to analyse the occurrence and causes of gender bias in research funding in Europe. Six project partners in five countries investigate from different perspectives and with a multi-method approach factors that may cause gender imbalances before, during and after grant submissions. The project adopts a broad, process-oriented perspective when investigating gender bias in grant allocation, paying particular attention to several different key organisational processes within Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), which structure and systematize grant allocation, such as decision-making processes, review processes, and selection processes.The GRANteD project includes five empirical, multi-level and multi-method, case studies in which gender bias and gender equality policies are studied in-depth, to produce a multi-faceted understanding of complex issues regarding gender disparities in higher education and science, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection. The case study research design allowed for inclusion of five public RFOs in the European Research Area, situated in: Austria, Ireland, Poland, Slovak Republic, and Sweden, respectively. The countries and the core RFOs were selected to achieve not only a geographical spread but also a variety of research funding landscapes. In each of the five core RFOs,one funding instrument, targeting mainly early career researchers, was selected for a more detailed analysis of gender bias in the funding cycle.This GRANteD report constitutes a synthesis on contextual factors, gender equality policy analysis and gender bias risk analysis. It explores, first, national funding regimes and national gender equalityregimes as broader macro contexts of the five core RFOs. This contextual analysis includes how gender equality is or is not foregrounded in the research policies and legislation, as well as gender relations in the research sector. Second, gender equality policies and relevant regulations of the RFOs have been mapped and analysed through timelines, framings, topics addressed, and measures. A grid for assessing gender bias risk in RFOs is introduced in the report as an innovative tool to map potential gender bias risk areas in RFOs, focusing on seven key areas: Strategy; Structure; Language and Communication; Evaluation; Transparency; Accountability; and Monitoring. Third, the five selected funding instruments included in the study are here analysed, adopting a similar framework for identifying potential genderbias risks.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Research Funding Organisations As Change Agents for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion : European Perspectives
- 2023
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Ingår i: Book of abstracts. - : International Sociological Association. ; , s. 328-328
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Research funding organisations (RFOs) are key R&D stakeholders in knowledge production and in development of research careers. How do these organisations address gender and other inequalities in their policies and practices? To what extent do they act as change agents towards equality and diversity with an impact on the whole sector? During recent decades, many national research funding organisations have increasingly become engaged in policies promoting gender equality, diversity, and inclusion Some RFOs are also collaborating increasingly in this area, both nationally and regionally, establishing collaborative networks. An important driver here has been the European Research Area (ERA), in which gender equality is one of priorities. However, the developments in this respect across Europe are complex and uneven, with advanced and ambitious policies established in some national contexts, on the one hand, and very limited and restricted engagements in some others, on the other hand.We compare the developments in national RFOs in five European national contexts, which vary in their research intensity and gender regimes: Austria, Ireland, Poland, Slovak Republic, and Sweden. We highlight advances and challenges in engagement of national RFOs with gender equality, diversity and inclusion, analyse the contextual factors driving development, and ask to what extent do the RFOs integrate intersectional approaches in their policies. The empirical material draws on policy document analysis and qualitative interview and observation research in GRANTeD (Grant Allocation Disparities from a Gender Perspective), a research project funded (2019-2023) by the EU Horizon2020 framework
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- Jordansson, Birgitta, et al.
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Jämställdhet i akademin : Ett sisyfosarbete?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - Uppsala : Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet. - 1654-5443 .- 2001-1377. ; 42:1, s. 3-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Jordansson, Birgitta, 1952, et al.
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Jämställdhet i akademin - ett sisyfosarbete?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - 1654-5443. ; 42:1, s. 3-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gästredaktörernas inledning till ett temanummer om jämställdhet i akademin.
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