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What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities
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- Olsson, Erik J (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ),Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Teoretisk filosofi,Filosofiska institutionen,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Lund University Research Groups,Theoretical Philosophy,Department of Philosophy,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
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- Stilhoff Sörensen, Jens (author)
- University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier, freds- och utvecklingsforskning,School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research
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- 2020-11-16
- 2020
- English.
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In: Societies. - : MDPI AG. - 2075-4698. ; 10:4
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- This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016-2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender mainstreaming introduced and did the form itself affect scholar's academic rights? (b) Was the process in question compatible with international standards of institutional autonomy? (c) What effect did gender mainstreaming have on scholars' ability to exercise their academic rights in accordance with international standards? Using the UNESCO Recommendations Concerning the Status of Higher-education Teaching Personnel (1997) as our international standard, we conclude that gender mainstreaming was introduced as a form of identity politics though government action and de facto supervision; that the latter was problematic from the perspective of institutional autonomy; that the choice of gender studies as a preferred scientific framework for university policy had a chilling effect on inquiry and free speech in other areas of research; and, finally, that gender mainstreaming led to violations of some scholars' individual rights. The findings may be taken into account in evaluations of the outcome of gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities, all things considered.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- gender mainstreaming
- academic freedom
- Lehrfreiheit
- university
- autonomy
- identity politics
- Sweden
- higher education
- UNESCO
- Sociology
- university autonomy
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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