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Negotiating Meritocracy and Gender Equality across Organisational Spaces: The Case of a Tenure Track System
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Anders Broström; Marianne Ekman; Lars Geschwind; Monica Lindgren; Johann Packendorff – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
In this article, we study how meritocratic systems and gender equality concerns are negotiated across different organisational spaces in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Based on a case study of the organising of a tenure track system in a Swedish university, we suggest that the intersection of meritocratic processes and gender equality work…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Tenure, Intervention
Learning to Be Swedish: Governing Migrants in Labour-Market Projects
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Vesterberg, Viktor – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This article focuses on adult learning in labour-market projects targeting unemployed migrants in Sweden. Drawing on a Foucauldian analysis of governmentality, the results of the study problematize the ways that such projects produce individualizing discourses--targeting individuals, constructing them as responsible for their position as…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Labor Market, Sex Fairness, Unemployment
The Different Worlds of Academia: A Horizontal Analysis of Gender Equality in Swedish Higher Education
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Silander, Charlotte; Haake, Ulrika; Lindberg, Leif – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
Women are underrepresented in advanced positions in higher education in Europe. This study takes a horizontal perspective and focuses on the relationship between gender and discipline in order to combine research on gender in higher education with theories of disciplinary differences in academic cultures. The study points out substantial…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Case Studies, Women Faculty, Disproportionate Representation
A Cross-Cultural Study of American, Chinese, Japanese and Swedish Early Childhood In-Service and Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives of Fathering
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Ito, Yoko; Izumi-Taylor, Satomi – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in perspectives of fathering among American, Chinese, Japanese and Swedish in-service and pre-service early childhood teachers. The participants in the quantitative survey consisted of 67 American in-service and 277 pre-service teachers, 118 Chinese in-service and 163…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
School Performance and Gender Differences in Suicidal Behaviour--A 30-Year Follow-Up of a Stockholm Cohort Born in 1953
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Rojas, Yerko – Gender and Education, 2013
Astonishingly little is known about the relationship between high educational achievements and suicidal behaviour among women. This is remarkable given that a woman breaking into traditionally male-dominant spheres is a well established example of social-role marginality. The current study combines fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviour and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Suicide, Females, Correlation
Interests, Effort, Achievement and Vocational Preference.
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Sjoberg, L. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Relationships between interest in natural sciences and technology and perceived ability, success, and invested effort were studied in Swedish secondary school students. Interests were accounted for by logical orientation and practical value. Interests and grades were strongly correlated, but correlations between interests and effort and vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews