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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Representations of women researchers in Finnish print media : top researchers, multi-talents and experts [Representaciones de mujeres investigadoras En la prensa escrita finlandesa: investigadoras de élite, multi-talentos y expertas]
- 2016
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In: Investigaciones Feministas. - Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid. - 2171-6080. ; 7:2, s. 203-224
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Women’s underrepresentation in the scientific community is currently on the agenda of science policy, both in Europe and internationally. The significance of media as a provider of female role models, on the one hand, and in reproducing stereotypical images of scientists, on the other hand, is often mentioned in this context. However, there is relative lack of research on how women researchers are depicted in the media, especially outside US and UK contexts. Finland provides an interesting context to study media representations of women in research, as a relatively gender equal and research intensive setting seen from a global perspective.The media representations of women researchers in Finland were explored by analyzing person interviews in Finnish printed media: newspapers, women’s magazines and magazines aimed for general public. The data consists of 107 interviews of women researchers from all fields of research, published in 1997-2014. Overwhelming majority of the interviews was written by female journalists. The analysis focuses on both social and linguistic aspects of the interviews from a gender perspective. Women researchers were found to be represented by a variation of frames, the most common of which were the Expert and the Top Researcher. Their family context was frequently mentioned, and the interviews frequently commented their appearance(e.g. hair, physique, way of moving).The fact that the interviewees’ family context was often highlighted in the interviews may serve to convey a message that it is possible and common to combine a career in research and family. One main result of the study was the diversity of representations of female researchers,compared to US and UK studies. The diversity of the media images of female researchers suggests that the media may provide important role models for young women, encouraging women to choose research as a profession.
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- Axelsson, Tobias, 1979-
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När män möts som pappor : Fadrandets politik och praktik i det jämställda och pappavänliga Sverige
- 2019
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis analyses how fathering is done and how fathers are constructed through the separate organising of men as fathers in meeting places for fathers on parental leave in Sweden. The study is located within the Swedish gender regime, characterised by its dual-earner/dual-carer model, progressive parenthood and daddy politics, and universally-oriented parenting support, making it a relatively gender-equal and father-friendly society.Theoretically and methodologically, the thesis draws on a feminist perspective. It uses ‘doing gender’ theory, and is informed by critical realism. The material is based on 25 observations at two fathering spaces, seven semi-structured interviews with fathers, and six policy documents on parenting support. Qualitative content analysis is used to analyse the material.The findings show: first, meeting places for fathers on parental leave can be understood as fathering spaces. Second, these fathering spaces are child-oriented settings and constitute somewhat of an exception within gender-neutral gender regimes. Third, fathering spaces function as transitional sites in which fathers manage different aspects of responsibility and relations to their own selves, to children, to mothers, and to other fathers. Fourth, three approaches to separate organising of men as fathers are identified: a) anti-separate; b) pro-separate; and c) gender paradoxical. The identified arguments for separate organising can be located along two parallel continua: one that stretches from individual to collective argumentation, and another that stretches from general to gender-specific argumentation.The thesis contributes to research on childcare and masculinities, and fathers’ experiences of parental leave, and to knowledge about separate organising of men as fathers. It also contributes to research and policy debates on daddy politics and parenting support by critically discussing fathering in terms of autonomy, dependence, and masculinity politics.
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GEXcel Work in Progress Report Volume XVII : Proceedings from GEXcel Themes 11–12, Visiting Scholars: Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scienti!c Organisation(s)
- 2013
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Editorial proceedings (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The contributions to this volume are the results of the activities carried out within the frame of GEXcel eleventh and twelfth research theme, Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scienti!c Organisation(s). It comprises work-in-progress papers produced by the !fteen visiting scholars working under themes 11–12. All !fteen GEXcel vising scholars stayed at Örebro University, Sweden, different periods during spring and autumn 2011.The report is of a work-in-progress character, and the papers presented here are to be elaborated further. The reader should also be aware that due to the fact that, as this is a report of working papers, some minor editorial modi!cations have been made to some papers, but the language of those contributed by non-native speakers of English has not been speci!cally revised.We thank Gunnel Karlsson and Mia Fogel for all their assistance in the arrangements of Research Themes 11–12.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al.
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Age-Gender Relations in the Academic Profession : Putting the Challenges of Early Career Academics into Context
- 2019
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In: Gender, Age and Inequality in the Professions. - New York : Routledge. - 9780815358572 - 9781351052467 ; , s. 193-212
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter focuses on academic professions. Some initial clarifications are made between the academic profession (as a whole), and specific disciplinary professions. Different combinations of such professions are found in different organizations, such as universities and research institutes. We move on to examine the gendered, aged and age-gendered features of these academic professions, including vertical and horizontal divisions. A particular important aspect is the long time span of entry and early career, and increasingly the lack of permanent professional positions. This can mean that even very well established academics and researchers remain on temporary contracts all their working life, or only gain a permanent position late in their career. In many countries, especially in Europe, there is increased awareness and policy development focusing on the entry level in academic careers, including the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. This applies both at a general level and in terms of gendered dimensions. We discuss early career experiences, empirical studies of early careers in academia, and key policy developments, and how these add to the study of gender, power and professions more generally at a time of their reconfiguration in many arenas.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al.
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Gender equality
- 2016. - 1
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In: The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies<em></em>. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 9781405196949
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gender equality can be understood as part of the long-term historical struggles for equality and democracy. In this process, gender equality interventions are important tools in enhancing women's rights and participation, yet this striving for greater gender equality is by no means unproblematic, for example, as demonstrated by LGBTQI+ movements. There are many arguments for gender equality – feminist transformation, gender justice, gender difference, realization of individual and collective potential, and its fuller use – and many ways of framing gender equality. Within liberal feminism, gender equality involves realizing the potential of women and men equally within the current gender order. In gender-resistance feminism, the gender order cannot be made equal through gender balance, as men's dominance is too strong. Rebellion feminists seek to take apart the gendered social order by multiplying genders or doing away with them. Gender policy operates differentially at organizational and occupational levels, and in public and private sectors, with extremely variable historical contexts. Major supranational bodies, such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the Council of Europe, have been prominent in promotion of gender equality. Various critiques of gender equality are outlined. Future challenges facing gender equality and gender equality policy are noted.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al.
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Interrogating violence against women and state violence policy : Gendered intersectionalities and the quality of policy in The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK
- 2016
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In: Current Sociology. - London : Sage Publications. - 0011-3921 .- 1461-7064. ; 64:4, s. 551-567
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article builds on feminist scholarship on intersectionality to address violence against women, and state policy thereon. It takes up the challenge of analysing the complex, situated and spatial relationship between theorizing on violence against women and state policy on such violence. Drawing on extensive comparative European data, it explores the relations of gender and intersectionality, conceptualized as gendered intersectionalities, by examining how multiple inequalities are made visible and invisible in state policy and debates in the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Attention is paid to different forms of gendered intersectionalities in policy, for example, tendencies to degender violence against women. A key aim of the article is to investigate how comparative analysis can be a starting point for assessing if, how and to what extent the inclusion of multiple inequalities could increase the quality of policy, for both reducing and stopping violence, and assisting those subject to violence.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al.
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Interrogating violence against women and state violence policy through gendered intersectionalities and intersectional gender : local, national and transnational contexts
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper arises from collective work within the 5-year Swedish Research Council project, “Feminist Theorizings of Intersectionality, Transversal Dialogues and New Synergies”, organised within GEXcel Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (Örebro-Karlstad-Linköping Universities), with specific focus on violence seen as inequalities (Hearn, Sociological Review, 2012; Current Sociology, 2013). The larger project examines intersectionality in gender studies, in relation and dialogue with the diverse, sometimes conflictual, theoretical and political positions in feminist debates (Walby, Armstrong, Strid, 2012; Strid et al. Social Politics, forthcoming). The project is designed against this background of rich, diverse feminist traditions for theorizing of intersectionality, and informed by tensions between these traditions. This paper takes up this challenge in terms of violence, especially violence against women, and state policy thereon, addressing the place of violence in contemporary state regulation and intersectional gender relations. The paper examines the complex, situated and spatial relationship between theorizing on violence against women and state policy on such violence (Hearn and McKie, Policy & Politics, 2008; Violence Against Women, 2010). This focus continues feminist traditions on multiple linkages between practice, politics, policy and theory, in local, national and transnational contexts. More specifically, drawing on extensive comparative European data at local, national and transnational, it explores the concepts of gendered intersectionalities and intersectional gender by examining how multiple inequalities, long been prominent in feminist activism and intervention on violence, are made (in)visible and conceptualized in state gender-based violence policy and debates. Attention is paid especially to tendencies to degendering strategies in violence research and state policy. A key aim of the paper is to investigate how analysis can be a starting point for assessing if, how and to what extent the inclusion of multiple inequalities could increase the quality of policy, for both reducing and stopping violence, and assisting those subject to violence.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al.
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Understanding gender : some implications for science and technology
- 2011
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In: ISR. Interdisciplinary science review. - : Maney Publishing. - 0308-0188 .- 1743-2790. ; 36:2, s. 103-113
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gender relations and gendered power relations are major defining features of science and technology. This article addresses the question of how to understand gender, and considers their various implications for science and technology. Gender and gender relations can be understood as operating and as relevant to science and technology at several levels: who does science and technology; how science and technology are organized; and the construction of knowledge in science and technology. We review five underlying formulations that inform both policy interventions and theorizing around gender and science - gender based on sex; masculinity/femininity and sex roles; categoricalism, structure and plural structures; poststructuralist, discursive and deconstructive approaches; the material-discursive.
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- Hoffart, Amund Rake, 1988-
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Intersectional intersectionality? Interpretative politics in metacommentaries on intersectionality
- 2021
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The claim that intersectionality has become a dominant paradigm for feminist scholarship and activism constitutes the backdrop to this study. One central arena for making such claims is the genre of metacommentaries on intersectionality. This genre often responds critically to the development of intersectionality into a paradigm and focuses on how the dispersal of intersectionality into ever-new contexts carries with it a series of missteps and breakdowns. The paradigmatisation of intersectionality is seen as problematic: its successes lead to failures; its popularity to a loss of radical edge; its travels to uprooting. This critique instigates a form of storytelling that attempts to bring intersectionality back to where it belongs. In this study, three responses to the paradigmatisation of intersectionality are identified. All work to pin it down and shape it as a proper object: to define its meanings, connect with its roots and realise its potential. These responses are read as themselves contributing to paradigmatisation, positioning the genre of metacommentaries as both “against” and as an important part of this process.This thesis develops a critique of the gestures of correction inherent in the metacommentary responses. A central finding is that the construction of a proper form of intersectionality is contrasted against an improper other, known as “additivity”, a way of conceptualising the relationship between social categories as separate and independent, making it possible to add them to each other. More importantly, additivity serves as a conceptual placeholder for a long list of methodological no-go areas, such as essentialism, exclusion and binary thinking. Thus, in the metacommentaries, a starkly oppositional relationship is constructed: through making additivity into a pejorative, intersectionality becomes an imperative. A paradoxical effect of overstating this binary is that it reinforces the very theory/practice gap that is singled out as causing missteps and breakdowns in intersectional scholarship. Instead of struggling to resolve the problem of additivity at a metatheoretical level, it is suggested that we need to dissolve the exceptionalism that guides the corrective impulse and to acknowledge our collective implication in additive modes of thought.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-
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Finland
- 2009
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In: The Gender Challenge in Research Funding. - Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. - 9789279105999 ; , s. 96-97
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Finland
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In: International Handbook on Gender Roles. - Westport, Connecticut - London : ABC-CLIO. - 0313283362 ; , s. 59-76
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Gender and gatekeeping of excellence in research funding : European perspectives
- 2010. - 1
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In: GenderChange in Academia. - Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. - 9783531168326 ; , s. 43-59
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Women continue to be a minority among European researchers. Access to funding is one of the keys to success in academic careers, both for women and for men, providing essential support for research and publications. Indeed, the role of competitive funding is increasing in many European national settings and success in the competition for research funding is now often used as a measure of scientific excellence at both individual and institutional level. Those who decide on allocation of research funding play thus an important gatekeeping role shaping the research system.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Gender challenges in research funding : Nordic and European perspectives
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Academic careers continue to be gendered, in the Nordic region, Europe and globally. Access to research funding is one of the keys to success in academic careers, providing essential support for research development and publishing. Success in the competition for external research funding is currently used as one measure of scientific excellence at both individual and institutional levels. International research on the allocation of research funding and gender has not demonstrated a systematic gender bias in men’s favour, but has produced rather contradictory results on different funding systems and instruments. However, excellence-marked funding has been shown to be especially gender biased. In external competitive funding the national research funding agencies play an important role. In Europe, the research funding organisations in the Nordic countries, especially Sweden and Norway, have been among the most pro-active in engaging with gender (in)equalities in the funding systems throughout the 2000s (see, e.g., EC 2009). On the basis of ongoing and recent Nordic and European research projects the authors are engaged with (including a gender equality review of the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Science [Riksbankens Jubileumsfond] grant allocation processes, and a new four-year H2020 project GRANTeD), and recent policy initiatives, the presentation discusses gender challenges in research funding dynamics. These have been identified across the funding process and cycle, in: patterns of application behaviour, peer review, evaluation criteria and procedures, excellence initiatives, policies and practices of funding bodies, access to data by gender, decision-making, and the very allocation of funding. Until recently, how gender and other key power axes may intersect in the funding cycle is relatively rarely addressed in policy and monitoring in this arena, with the intersection of age and gender perhaps as an exception in this respect.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-
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Gender Discrimination in the Promised Land of Gender Equality
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In: Higher Education in Europe. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0379-7724 .- 1469-8358. ; 25:2, s. 221-228
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- For many years, Finland has been known as a country that promotes gender equality in all walks of life, particularly in the domain of higher education. Yet here, too, women academics encounter the glass ceiling and subtle forms of gender discrimination. In particular, the author cites the practice of filling professorships by invitation rather than by open competition as one that discriminates against women. It seems that the Finnish gender equality law of 1987, although certainly well intentioned, fails to provide for appropriate sanctions for poor compliance.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-
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Gender equality in Nordic academia : advances and challenges
- 2019
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In: RODNA RAVNOPRAVNOST U VISOKOM OBRAZOVANJU. - Novi Sad, Serbia : Akademska knjiga. - 9788662632791 ; , s. 63-73
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The five Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – are considered high achievers in global comparisons of overall gender equality of society (World Economic Forum, 2017a). Political will in the region to advance gender equality in academia is high. Gender equality promotion in higher education, academia, and research has been on the national policy agendas for four decades, since the late 1970s and early 1980s, through various national level interventions and measures, especially so in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Gender equality is addressed in the university legislation in Norway and Sweden, and in Finland the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination legislation especially gives educational institutions a duty to promote equality and prevent discrimination. Universities in Finland, Norway, and Sweden have for decades been legally obliged to engage in equality planning. These three countries also show the highest proportion of women on scientific boards in the European Union, approaching gender parity, and the highest proportion of women among university Vice-Chancellors in the EU. Despite this, unequal gendered structures in academic careers and gender segregation of disciplinary fields prevail. Taking the proportion of women among full professors as one indicator of gender equality in academia, the Nordic region does not excel in a European comparison, neither in the share of women in the professoriate, nor the pace of diminishing the gender gap among professors. This article interrogates the Nordic paradox of high overall gender equality in society, political will, and active policy regulation to advance gender equality in academia and science, on the one hand, and the unequal gendered structures in academic careers and inequalities in resource allocation, including research funding, on the other. Some differences and similarities between the five Nordic countries will be highlighted and discussed, along with historical developments, policy landscapes, and continuing resistances to advancement of gender equality, both within and outside academia.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Gendering excellence in technological reseach : a comparative European perspective
- 2010
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In: Journal of Technology Management & Innovation. - 0718-2724. ; 5:1, s. 127-139
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gender patterns in technological and engineering research careers were explored in the EU funded 13-country study PROMETEA in 2005-2007, including old and new EU member states, and Serbia, the Russian Federation and Chile. Drawing from this study, the article analyses the gendering of key arenas of excellence in technological and engineering research from a comparative international perspective, with a focus on research funding, publishing, scientific prizes and awards, and patents. A central challenge for gender-sensitive science and research policy is how to combine the promotion of scientific excellence with the promotion of gender equality. Exploring the gendering of excellence in technology and engineering research is of special interest because of the strong position this field enjoys in national, European and international research policy and in national research policies, and also because it continues to be the most male-dominated research field. Furthermore, the article discusses methodological challenges of this type of comparative research.
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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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Reports (peer-reviewed)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-
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Interrogating Science Policy in a Pro Gender Equality Setting : The Case of Sweden
- 2018
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper interrogates science policy-making through a gender lens in a country setting that strongly promotes gender equality as a societal value and as an explicit policy goal. The paper asks: can something be learnt from this kind of a setting to benefit the implementation of the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Swedish society has among the smallest societal gender gaps in global comparison. With its long term history of gender equality policy and actions, and the current social democratic-green coalition government declaring itself as a “feminist government”, it provides an interesting societal setting for this kind of exercise. Gender mainstreaming the activities of public authorities is a strong policy line, including, among others, public research funding and innovation agencies, and recently universities. The paper addresses the question in what ways are gender dimensions integrated in Swedish contemporary science policy. How are problems in this arena articulated, defined, and contested? How are gender dimensions taken into account in the governance and steering of science, in science policy strategies, and in the activities of different key stakeholders and inter-organisational activities? How does international collaboration, specifically within EU and the Nordic region, reflect on how gender dimensions are taken into account in the Swedish science policy landscape? What kind of dilemmas and contradictions can be identified? The empirical material consists mainly of science policy documents, and is supported by material generated through participant observation in some science policy arenas, such as research funding agencies and governmental advisory committees, as well as media coverage. An emerging issue in gendering of science policy-making that is of high relevance to the SDGs is highlighting the gender dimension of research content in funding of research, in addition to the gender distribution of scientific labour force and among gatekeepers and decision-makers in science.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-
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Nordic Countries and the Nordic Region : Gender Research and Gender Studies in Northern Europe
- 2018
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In: Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung. - Wiesbaden : Springer Nature. - 9783658125004
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Globally, the five countries of the Nordic region – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – are known to be among the most gender equal societies. However, gender segregation in labour market and education are persistent, and gender inequalities in academia and research show many patterns similar to elsewhere. Noteworthy for the region is a long tradition of Nordic regional collaboration through inter-governmental and inter-parliamentary organisations, as well as in research and non-governmental organisations; this has had a significant impact on the development of gender equality, gender research and Gender Studies on both regional and national levels.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Recommendations for Action on the Gender Dimension in Science, EU FP7 Report to the European Commission : Authors: Pollitzer E., Crane E., Dale H., Blaszczuk A., Hearn J., Husu L., Kikis-Papadakis K., Margetousaki A., Urban C., Reimer R., & Strähle M.
- 2010
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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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In: Book of abstracts. - : International Sociological Association. ; , s. 328-328
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)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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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-, et al.
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Scientists of the world speak up for equality
- 2013
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In: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 495:7439, s. 35-38
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- Eight experts give their prescriptions for measures that will help to close the gender gap in national from China to Sweden
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-
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What does not happen : interrogating a tool for building a gender-sensitive university
- 2020
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In: The Gender-Sensitive University. - London : Routledge. - 9780367431174 - 9781003001348 ; , s. 166-176
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Work towards a more gender-sensitive university frequently focuses on such issues as institutional structures, recruitment and evaluation systems, career paths, curricula, gender balance in decision-making, as well as anti-discrimination policies (Fogelberg et al. 1999). Academic careers continue to be persistently gendered in Europe and beyond, and especially in the professoriate strong male domination prevails. This is so despite a significant increase of women at the starting phase for academic careers, and active gender equality policies adopted in academia in many parts of the world. This chapter suggests that a fruitful approach and tool towards building a more gender-sensitive university could be interrogating and focusing more systematically on what does not happen in academic careers and the academic work environment more generally. Previous research has demonstrated how gender discrimination and sexism have not vanished from academic settings when gender discrimination has been legally sanctioned, but rather how they are taking increasingly subtler and more covert forms. This kind of sexism is constituted not only on what tangibly happens to people (as highlighted by #MeToo), but also on what does not happen to them. What happens can be that actually nothing happens in a certain career phase, or what is supposed to happen does not happen. I call these kind of processes non-events. Non-events include silences, exclusions, ignoring, bypassing, lack of support, lack of validation, invisibility, lack of credit, not being listened to, and not being invited along. Those involved in such non-events may have only liminal consciousness on their existence, or perceive them only in hindsight when looking back at their career. They are challenging to observe and respond to if you are at the receiving end. As single events these kind of non-events may appear insignificant and not worthy of attention, but it is the accumulation of them in the work environment and along the career path that is of interest in terms of gender-sensitive university. Examples of non-events are discussed on the basis of empirical interview and observation data from Nordic universities. Furthermore, how the concept of non-events could be used in gender-sensitive management and career training, research leader training and more generally in awareness-raising activities of universities will be addressed.
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- Husu, Liisa, 1953-
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Women's Work-Related and Family-Related Discrimination and Support in Academia
- 2005
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In: Gender Relations: Local and Global. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9780762312146 - 9781849503457 ; , s. 161-199
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Academia remains a male-dominated occupational realm, even though women have made great gains as actors in higher education. The interconnections of work-related and family-related discrimination experiences and work-related and family-related support are analyzed, drawing on over 100 semi-structured interviews with and written accounts of academic women in 11 Finnish universities from all major disciplinary fields. Finland provides an interesting research context, characterized by relatively high gender equality in both academia and society more generally. Exploring academic women in this setting reveals several paradoxes, namely those of: feminization of academia; family-friendly policies; academic motherhood; and academic endogamy.
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- Jousilahti, Julia, et al.
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KOTAMO : Report on the state of equality and diversity in Finnish higher education institutions
- 2022
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The objective of the KOTAMO project (2021–22) has been to examine the state of equality, non-discrimination and diversity among teaching and research staff in Finnish higher education institutions and to propose recommendations for measures to address the problems identified. The study focused on gender equality and ethnic diversity. The report is based on a literature review, a survey addressed to higher education personnel, interviews with personnel and workshops held with personnel and financiers. The project was funded bythe Ministry of Education and Culture and implemented by Demos Helsinki, Oxford Research,Includia Leadership, Innolink, Inkeri Tanhua (Equality Research Helsinki), Liisa Husu and Kaskas.The report showed that Finnish higher education institutions still have a great deal of work to do in promoting gender equality and ethnic diversity and that they need support in this work. The main challenges are related to the inadequate implementation of equalit yand non-discrimination plans, the relatively low number of women and ethnic minorities at the highest career stages in universities, non-transparent recruitment processes, poorer career development among ethnic minorities (when compared to the majority population),discrimination experienced by these minorities, and a non-inclusive working culture.Promoting equality and diversity requires actions, support for higher education institutions and more research.
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