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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.
(författare)
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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.
(författare)
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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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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Engwall, Kristina, et al.
(författare)
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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.
(författare)
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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.
(författare)
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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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| 9. |
- Jordansson, Birgitta, et al.
(författare)
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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.
(författare)
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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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- Jordansson, Birgitta, 1952, et al.
(författare)
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Jämställdhet i akademin. Hinder och möjligheter när politik ska bli praktik
- 2022
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Boken tar sin utgångspunkt i det politiskt initierade JiHU-uppdraget (Jämställdhetsintegrering av Högskolor och Universitet) och analyserar de lokala förutsättningarna ute på lärosätena för att arbeta med uppdraget. Boken inleds med en genomgång av det politiskt drivna jämställdhetsarbetet inom akademin från mitten av 70-talet och framåt. Därefter fokuseras på begreppet jämställdhet och jämställdhetsintegrering, hur uppdraget har tolkats ute på lärosätena samt hur det styrs och organiseras. Boken diskuterar även innebörden av akademisk frihet, reaktioner som implementeringen av uppdraget har väckt samt olika strategier för att hantera motstånd.
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- Jordansson, Birgitta, et al.
(författare)
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Jämställdhetsintegrering vid svenska universitet och högskolor : Det politiska uppdraget återspeglat i lärosätenas planer
- 2019
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Ingår i: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning. - København : Center for kvindeforskning, Københavns universitet. - 0907-6182 .- 2245-6937. ; 28:1-2, s. 58-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gender Mainstreaming in Swedish Higher Education: the political directive reflected in institutional plans. The Swedish government’s latest reform of gender inequality in higher education set out to strengthen gender mainstreaming. Following this reform, the Swedish higher education institutions established gender mainstreaming plans for 2017-2019. In this article, we analyse and discuss the content of these plans, focusing on how they describe the organisation of gender mainstreaming, the understanding of gender inequality as a problem, and the planned activities to achieve gender mainstreaming. Drawing on interpretative frame theory, we identify challenges with the aims and scopes of these plans and the definitions they employ, e.g. in attempts to merge gender mainstreaming with the already on-going equal opportunity work based on the Swedish Discrimination Act. We conclude that many institutions have adopted an approach to gender mainstreaming that has the potential for transformation through long-term and sustainable cultural and structural change. To what extent the plans will be fully implemented, however, remains to be investigated, and depends on the organisation of work, commitment of leaders, and legitimacy of practitioners.
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- Jordansson, Birgitta, 1952, et al.
(författare)
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Jämställdhetsintegrering vid svenska universitet och högskolor. Det politiska uppdraget återspeglat i lärosätenas planer.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning. - 0907-6182. ; 28:1-2, s. 58-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artikeln är skriven inom ramen för ett forskningsprojekt baserat på det politiska uppdraget att Jämställdhetsintegrera svenska universitet och högskolor perioden (JiHU) 2017-2019. Specifikt fokuserar texten på de handlingsplaner som resp lärosäte upprättade i maj 2017. Vi analyserar och diskuterar innehållet i planerna utifrån hur de beskriver organiseringen av uppdraget, hur de förstår jämställdhetsintegrering och vad slags konkreta insatser som skrivs fram. Analysen tar en utgångspunkt i olika tolkningsramar. Slutsatsen är att flera lärosäten skriver fram en förståelse som skulle kunna ha en transformerande potential genom sitt fokus på långsiktig och hållbar förändring både sturkturellt och kulturellt. Huruvida detta kommer att bli framgångsrikt är beroende av legitimiteten, både i organisationen och utifrån kunskap om makt och genus.
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- Jordansson, Birgitta, et al.
(författare)
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Lokal styrning av jämställdhetsintegrering inom akademin
- 2021
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Ingår i: Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv. - Karlstad : Karlstads universitet. - 1400-9692 .- 2002-343X. ; 27:1, s. 7-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Föreliggande artikel belyser olika aspekter av lokal styrning inom offentliga verksamheter där övergripande mål definieras genom politisk resultat- och målstyrning. Mer specifikt handlar det om hur Sveriges lärosäten styrs för att uppfylla det mål som gavs till dem i regeringens regleringsbrev 2016; att jämställdhetsintegrera sina verksamheter. Artikeln analyserar och diskuterar de styrtekniker som lärosätena använt sig av för att uppfylla målet. Analysen är sålunda en fallstudie av jämställdhetsarbete inom akademin. Resultaten kan dock bidra med kunskaper av en mer generell karaktär gällande styrning i offentlig verksamhet. De är dessutom av direkt relevans för totalt över 90 offentliga verksamheter som ska förverkliga det politiska uppdraget om jämställdhetsintegrering.
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- Menon, Ashok S., et al.
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A Crystallographic Reinvestigation of Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Despite substantial research interest, the crystallography of the promising Li-ion positive electrode material, Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2, remains disputed. The dispute is predicated on the description of the cationic arrangement in the structure, and multiple structure models have been proposed. This study attempts to provide a fresh perspective to this debate through a multi-scalar structural characterisation of Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2. Combining Bragg diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and magnetic measurements with reverse Monte Carlo analysis of total scattering data, a quantitative structural description of Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2 is developed and the existing single- and multi-phase structural descriptions of this compound have been unified. Furthermore, the merits and drawbacks of each technique is evaluated with respect to the crystallography of Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2 to explain the factors that have contributed to the lack of clarity pervading the structural description of this material. It is envisioned that a better understanding of the crystallography of Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2 contributes to harnessing the electrochemical potential of this compound.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
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A Perfect Match? Cultural Clashes and Gendered Work Ideals in Transnational IT Companies
- 2017
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Ingår i: Gender in Transnational Knowledge Work. - Cham : Springer. - 2197-9634. - 9783319433073 - 9783319433066 - 9783319827858 ; , s. 53-78
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, Joan Acker’s concept of gendered work ideals is used to understand the cultural clashes in transnational collaboration between Swedish and Indian firms. Interviews in two firms show that Indian employees collaborating with Sweden meet with conflicting ideals which they find difficult to realize, because of the differences between the prevalent organizational cultures in the different national contexts, India being more Tayloristic and Sweden being more entrepreneurial. The gendered work ideals also differ. The Indian ideal worker is extremely difficult for women to realize, due to societal expectations, which effectively prevents them from fulfilling the organizational expectations. Acker’s description of the gendered work ideal proves to be insufficient in this cultural context, where the differences between the societal gender roles of women and men are built in the organizational culture and women’s societal role as mothers overrides their role as employees in ways not covered in Acker’s presumptions.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974
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A women-only leadership development program: Facilitating access to authority for women in Swedish higher education?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Social Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 2076-0760. ; 8:5, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2019 by the authors. This article explores a national women-only leadership development program in Swedish higher education, the so-called IDAS program (an acronym for Identity, Development, Advancement, Support). IDAS encouraged and supported women academics to pursue leadership/administrative careers in higher education and was a unique intervention, aiming to increase the number of women Rectors. By drawing on interviews with some of the women who participated in the IDAS program and subsequently became Rectors, the article provides a valuable case study over best practices to increase women senior leaders in higher education. Notwithstanding the success of the leadership program, the article also deals with resistance and criticism linked to equal opportunity initiatives such as this. The article analyzes the criticism voiced by the women interviewed and suggests that it can be understood in relation to different conceptions of gender and gender (in)equality.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-
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Absent Non-Fathers : Gendered representations of voluntary childlessness in Swedish newspapers
- 2014
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Ingår i: Feminist Media Studies. - Basingstoke : Routledge. - 1468-0777 .- 1471-5902. ; 14:1, s. 22-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article applies a media frame analysis in order to highlight representations of voluntary childlessness in Swedish newspapers. The analysis identifies how childfree couples are framed as carefree, fulfilled and content. Childfree women on the other hand are framed as struggling with problems, stereotypes and doubts. Childfree men are absent and implicitly framed as unconcerned and unaffected. Even in the only newspaper article that draws attention to men and voluntary childlessness the voice of the childfree man is absent. Instead of a childfree man a father of six is interviewed and presented as an exception. To explain these different frames this article argues that gender stereotypes, maternalism, pronatalism and heteronormativity influence who is constructed as newsworthy when news media report on voluntary childlessness. While the feminine identity and women's social role is conflated with motherhood, the link between fatherhood and masculinity is weaker. Because men's parenthood roles are indistinct so are men's roles as non-parents. As a result a father to a daughter in a previous relationship can be represented as part of a carefree and childfree couple. Consequently, childfree women are more newsworthy than childfree men, and a father of six is more newsworthy than a non-father.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-
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Akademiskt ledarskap i balans? : Kvinnor på ledande positioner vid svenska universitet och högskolor 1990-2010
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Enligt rapporten Akademiskt ledarskap i balans? Kvinnor på ledande positioner vid svenska universitet och högskolor 1990-2010 vid Linköpings universitet ökade andelen kvinnliga rektorer på svenska universitet och högskolor från 14 procent 1990 till 43 procent 2010. Andelen kvinnor på andra ledande poster har också ökat markant. På posterna prorektor och prodekan råder idag kvinnlig dominans, medan posten dekan fortfarande är mansdominerad. Andelen kvinnor har dock ökat även där, från 3 procent 1990 till 31 procent 2010. Kvinnors representation på ledande poster har ökat betydligt mer än deras andel av professorerna. Enligt Helen Peterson som har gjort kartläggningen är större transparens vid rekryteringar och meritokratiska principer vid tillsättning viktiga orsaker till denna förbättrade könsbalans. Med formella regler och riktlinjer och tydlighet i processen ökar kvinnors chanser att bli utnämnda, medan kollegiala val på otydliga grunder fortfarande tenderar att gynna män, menar hon.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-
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An Academic ‘Glass Cliff’? : Exploring the Increase of Women in Swedish Higher Education Management
- 2014
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Ingår i: Athens Journal of Education. - Athen : Education Unit of ATINER. - 2407-9898 .- 2241-7958. ; 1:1, s. 33-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden has the highest percentage of female university Vice Chancellors in Europe. Some of the factors that have promoted women’s representation in senior management in Swedish academia are: political pressure in the form of goals and policies, quantitative target agreements concerning women’s representation, top level commitment to gender equality goals, and a network encouraging and supporting aspiring women managers. However, although women appear to break the glass ceiling, this paper sets out to investigate whether women are genuinely empowered in Swedish academia. Drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 22 senior managers in Swedish higher education, the paper reveals some of the challenges facing manager-academics: increasing workload, role conflict and decreasing status and prestige. Situating women’s increase in higher education management in a setting permeated by these challenges stimulates an analysis using theories about feminization of occupations and the metaphor ‘glass cliff’. Feminization refers to how women’s increase in an occupation often occurs simultaneously as it is transformed into a less prestigious work, with limited opportunities for advancement and weakened job security. The related concept ‘glass cliff’ describes a phenomenon when women are more likely to be appointed to precarious leadership roles in situations of turbulence and problematic organizational circumstances. The paper argues that women have been allowed to enter into management positions in higher education at the same time as these positions decline in status, merit and prestige and become more time-consuming and harder to combine with a successful scholarly career. Women are thus placed on an academic glass cliff.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-, et al.
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Barnfri i ett barnvänligt samhälle
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Frivillig barnlöshet. - Stockholm : Dialogos Förlag. - 9789175042299 ; , s. 13-38
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Bokkapitel (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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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-
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Beyond the Glass Cliff? Women leaders in Swedish Higher Education
- 2022
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Ingår i: Climbing up the Glass Cliff. - : The Institute for Global Leadership, Ochanomizu University. ; , s. 53-59
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A decade ago, women’s position in Swedish Higher Education management and leadership was described using the glass cliff concept. Women had increased dramatically in positions as Vice Chancellor due to political goals and policies regarding gender equality and quantitative target agreements concerning women’s representation in academia. Interviews with the women themselves however highlighted that the feminization of academic leadership positions also should be understood against the backdrop of a restructuring of higher education and reforms in line with new public management, increased financial pressure and administrative burden. A shift in leadership ideals has thus followed the logic of the glass cliff phenomenon: explaining that women increasingly had been appointed to precarious leadership roles with declining status, merit, and prestige. The heroic leadership ideal had been replaced by a serving leadership ideal, reflecting women’s greater responsibilities for the so-called academic housekeeping, i.e., the service work in academia undertaken in addition to teaching and researching. This presentation elaborates on the development of these leadership ideals in Swedish higher education and explores the development during the last couple of years: has the trend towards feminization of academic leadership positions continued and increased during and after the Covid-19 crisis, which put extraordinarily pressure on leadership positions?
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-, et al.
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Bilden av frivillig barnlöshet i media
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Frivillig barnlöshet. - Stockholm : Dialogos Förlag. - 9789175042299 ; , s. 105-161
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Bokkapitel (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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Careers of Early- and Mid-career Academics
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Ingår i: Generation and Gender in Academia. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137269164 ; , s. 127-165
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- "Generation and Gender in Academia is the first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior and younger group of women academics. This volume uses individual autobiographies of women academics in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom, who are members of the international feminist research consortium--the Women in Higher Education Management (WHEM) Network. Four major themes in their stories are national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency. While the younger generation believe they are entitled to careers on the same terms as their male colleagues, major challenges remain. These include countering the argument that the battles have been won for younger academics; lack of support and mentoring at the outset of careers; the continuing difficulty of aspiring to a traditional academic career path; capacity for playing the 'game' in managerial universities; and recognising mobility as crucial to career success.
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Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation
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Ingår i: Women's Studies: International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 53, s. 182-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Freedom is an often mentioned motive for remaining childfree. However, there is a lack of systematic approaches attempting to disentangle the situated meaning of freedom in voluntary childless women's lives. This article draws on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 21 Swedish childfree women in order to further research how they understand and define freedom. The analysis identifies two different discourses of freedom relevant for the construction of the childfree position. The first discourse includes positive experiences of freedom aspects that the childfree women enjoyed in their everyday lives. This discourse also defines freedom as part of a deep-rooted identity that also involves other life choices, besides rejecting mother- hood. The second discourse comprises negative opinions about children as risk, motherhood as time-consuming and parents as “trapped”. The article contextualizes these discourses within the contemporary Swedish welfare society.
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Finding ‘Mr Right’? : Childfree Women’s Partner Preferences
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Ingår i: Voluntary and involuntary childlessness. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781787543614 - 9781787543621 ; , s. 237-259
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter explores an aspect of voluntary childlessness that has been neglected in previous research; how voluntarily childless (i.e. childfree) women engage in partnership formation processes and how they perceive that these processes become influenced by their voluntarily childless status. Drawing on interviews with 21 voluntarily childless, heterosexual, Swedish women, this chapter highlights how their childfree decision(s) impacted their partnering behaviour, their chances to form an intimate relationship and their preferences concerning partners and partnerships. The results show some of the challenges these women faced as they engaged in partnership formation processes concerning; for example, constraints in partner availability and potentially conflicting preferences regards autonomy, reproduction and intimacy. In addition, partnership formation was complicated due to a lack of communication, misunderstandings and disbelief in their childfree choices. The analysis illustrates that it was of utmost importance to these women that their intimacy goals were respected and protected during these processes but that some of them were also willing to negotiate their partner ideal. Nevertheless, this chapter ends with a discussion of relationship dissolution due to ambivalence concerning childfree choices and intimacy goals both on behalf of the childfree woman and her partner.
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From "Goal-Orientated, Strong and Decisive Leader" to "Collaborative and Communicative Listener". Gendered Shifts in Vice-Chancellor Ideals, 1990-2018
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Ingår i: Education Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 2227-7102. ; 8:2
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- Applying a critical gendered lens, this article examines academic leadership ideals. It draws on a content analysis of job advertisements for Vice-Chancellors at Swedish higher education institutions from 1990 until 2018. The aim of the article is to investigate to what extent masculine or feminine wordings have been used to describe the ideal Vice-Chancellor in these documents. The analysis reveals that a shift in the leadership ideal has taken place during the time period investigated. Before this shift, during the 1990s, the ideal Vice-Chancellor was described as competitive, bold, strong, tough, decisive, driven, and assertive. These wordings are still included in the job advertisements from the 2000s and the 2010s. However, a more communicative and collaborative leadership ideal also emerges during these decades. There is thus a significant shift in how the leadership ideal is described. This shift is analyzed from a gendered perspective, suggesting that the traditional masculine-biased leadership ideal has decreased in influence with the feminine, transformational leadership ideal acting as a counterweight. The article argues that the shift in leadership ideals, as constructed in the job advertisements, mirrors the increase of women Vice-Chancellors appointed in the Swedish higher education sector.
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Gender and prestige in Swedish academia: Exploring senior management in universities and university colleges
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Routledge. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 61:1, s. 1-17
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- This article highlights the multifaceted character of the Swedish higher education sector and investigates senior academic management positions from a gender perspective using theories about an academic prestige economy and academic capitalism. The focus is on an aspect often overseen in research on Swedish academia: the distinction between universities and university colleges. The analysis draws on interviews with 22 women in senior management positions in Swedish higher education and a quantitative mapping of the Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor positions in universities and university colleges between 1990 and 2015. The results illustrate that the academic prestige economy is interwoven with both gender and academic capitalism and produce different working conditions and requirements for senior managers at universities and university colleges.
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Gender Equality as a Core Academic Value : Undoing Gender in a ‘Non-Traditional’ Swedish University
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Ingår i: Gendered success in higher education. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137566584 ; , s. 27-47
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- This chapter reports on a case study of a Swedish University, appointed the most gender equal university in Sweden. With the highest percentage of women professors in Swedish academia (35%) and a gender balance in senior academic management positions, it has received recognition for its achievements when it comes to quantitative gender equality. Drawing on interviews with key informants and official documents, the chapter explores how this university managed to establish and maintain a gendered agenda. The analysis uses a theoretical framework about gendered organizations and gender equality practices to explore how gender was undone in relation to structure, culture, interaction and identity.
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Gender Equality as a Core Academic Value: Undoing Gender in a 'Non-Traditional' Swedish University
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Ingår i: Gendered Success in Higher Education. Global Perspectives. Eds. Kate White and Pat O´Connor. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137566584 ; , s. 27-48
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- The persistence of gender inequality in higher education is well documented in Sweden as well as across many countries. Numerous projects, programmes and actions have been implemented to target these issues. The chapter adopts an exploratory, desciptive, single case-study approach called success method in order to investigate and understand the complexities of structural changes and analyse how gender inequalities could be challenged in a Swedish higher education institution described as 'non-traditional'.
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Gender mainstreaming in Swedish academia: translating policy into practice
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 31:1, s. 87-100
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- This article investigates how Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs) conceptualized and organized the 2016 Swedish government directive to gender mainstream their operations. The directive provided the general guidelines for the programme Gender Mainstreaming in Academia (GMA), which was to be implemented by HEIs between 2017 and 2019. This analysis draws on interviews with people at 13 HEIs responsible for, or in other ways participating in, the development of tailor-made gender mainstreaming plans (GMPs), which served as the starting point for the GMA programme. Using organizational translation theory, the article explores how the informants translated gender mainstreaming, as a broad policy strategy, into more specific conceptual and practical terms to fit their local contexts. The analysis focuses on how these gender mainstreaming translation processes were organized and who was invited to participate in the process. The results highlight how the organization of the translation process, the appointment of translators and the local translation of the GMA programme were guided by different principles, most often resulting in an integrationist rather than transformative translation of gender mainstreaming. The limitations and potentials of different translations of gender mainstreaming in relation to achieving organizational change and ultimately a more gender-equal organization are discussed.
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Gender, Power and Post-Bureaucracy : Work Ideals in IT Consulting
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis deals with work environments defined as post-bureaucratic, and which are characterised by individualisation and a decrease in the employer's formal control. The study shows how the employees in such work contexts are both empowered and disciplined. The main questions concern to what extent power shifts in relations between the employer and the employees and between female and male employees are visible and how such potential power shifts manifest themselves. The primary analysis of this power shift focuses on post-bureaucratic work ideals. Work ideals prescribe the skills, competence, manner and qualities of the ideal worker. While bureaucratic work ideals have emphasised employees' rule-following and role adaptation, reflecting the employer's supervision and control over employees, the post-bureaucratic work ideal has been suggested to a shift in power and control that challenges the bureaucratic relationship between power and position. The study uses a narrative analysis to highlight post-bureaucratic work ideals through examining in depth how Swedish IT consultants constitute, and position themselves in relation to, the ideal IT consultant. Although the consultants present themselves as powerful and autonomous vis-à-vis their managers, they also appear highly controlled by the system of consulting, by customer relations and by a work environment restricted by economic, individualised rationality. They also portray themselves as powerless in relation to threats of being made unemployed. Notwithstanding the supposed feminisation of a post-bureaucratic work ideal characterised by social competence, this study also shows that the work ideal that is rewarded in post-bureaucracy is not a feminine ideal. Although alleged to be gender-neutral, it is concluded that the idealised character of IT consulting is a gendered construction that gives precedence to hegemonic masculinity, and subordinates traditional feminine qualities, thereby reproducing gendred power relations.
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Gender Transformations in the Swedish higher education
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Ingår i: Feminism in Theory, Practice, and Policy. 2015 Winter Meetings, Sociologists for Women in Society, February 19-22 2015, Washington D.C..
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Gendered Recruitment Policies: How Swedish Academia Reached the Highest Proportion of Women Vice-Chancellors in Europe
- 2015
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Ingår i: International conference: Women in the academic world, 25-27 March 2015, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- as a global problem. Women’s under-representation in academic management reflects skills and talent wastage and missed opportunities for women to contribute to the future development of universities. More research is needed to understand how notoriously rigid gendered structures can be changed. Especially, more research is needed to understand the multifaceted role of gatekeepers in promoting, facilitating, or blocking and preventing change towards more gender balanced organizations. The Swedish higher education sector constitutes an interesting backdrop for investigating academic management from a gender perspective. Sweden stands out as a country with a significantly higher proportion of women Vice-Chancellors (i.e. University Presidents/ Rectors) than other countries. In 2010, 43 per cent of the Swedish Vice-Chancellors were women. This can be compared to the average 10 per cent in the 27 EU countries (European Commission 2012). This paper draws on an on-going research project, funded by the Swedish Research Council for Welfare, Working Life and Health, that investigates the increase of women Vice-Chancellors in Swedish higher education. The first case study in the project comprises a detailed analysis of documents covering the recruitment and appointment procedures of Vice-Chancellors at Swedish higher education institutions between 1990 and 2012. In total, documents regarding 69 recruitment processes at 28 Swedish higher education institutions are analyzed. 27 of the 69 recruitment processes resulted in a woman being selected as Vice Chancellor at 22 of the 28 higher education institutions. An in-depth comparison is made between these 27 recruitment processes and the 42 that resulted in the appointment of a male Vice-Chancellor in order to identify significant differences that can explain the different outcomes. The analysis highlights how the requirements in the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance, concerning considering both female and male candidates when recruiting Vice-Chancellors, has had a profound influence over the practices and processes used when Vice-Chancellors are recruited in Swedish higher education institutions. The aim of the paper is to contribute to research on policies aimed at changing organizations towards greater equity and diversity in decision-making positions. By understanding the practices, processes and policies that shaped the recruitment of women Vice-Chancellors in Swedish academia, it may be possible for other higher education institutions to recognize good practices in order to increase equity and diversity and to enhance organizational outcomes.
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