Armed with hard facts, Mari Teigen, as head of CORE – the Centre for Research on Gender Equality – has dedicated her career to investigating how gender plays out in the structure of society.
How do we ensure that the best candidate for a professorship is hired, while still securing gender balance and diversity? A new study shows how committees that hire professors struggle to meet different expectations.
The pandemic highlights some significant and remaining gendered structures in the Norwegian labour market – and the not-quite-sufficient efforts to eliminate them, writes Mari Teigen in this article.
More than a year has passed since a virus pandemic shut down most of society, including the university and university college sector. Researchers with young children as well as teaching duties and research to conduct have been squeezed the hardest, according to recent research.
A new knowledge overview provides a review of all Norwegian research on equality and artificial intelligence. From this overview, it is evident that we are not prepared for the consequences that the new technology might have for gender equality.
According to a recent study, women and men have equal chances to move up professionally in academia as a whole. There are, however, a number of systematic differences.
Values like equality, inclusion and diversity are being stifled by the prevailing management ideology in academia, critics note. “We must create an academic culture of compassion,” says British organizational psychologist Kathryn Waddington.
Lisa M. B. Sølvberg has interviewed ten Norwegian upper class men about body, nutrition and physical activity. According to her, leaders’ views on physical exercise may affect whom they choose to employ.
White men dominate leader positions in the Norwegian petroleum industry. If you’re a woman and want to climb the career ladder, you need to keep your mouth shut when there’s talk of gender and equality, according to researchers.
The pandemic highlights some significant and remaining gendered structures in the Norwegian labour market – and the not-quite-sufficient efforts to eliminate them, writes Mari Teigen in this article.
Norske kvinner har høgare sjukefråvær enn menn. Men det er ikkje haldningane det er noko i vegen med, skriv forskarane Gøril Kvamme Løset og Tale Hellevik.
Seksuell trakassering er et arbeidsmiljøproblem. Men hvorfor er det så vanskelig å gjøre noe med det? spør Fafo-forskerne Mona Bråten og Beate Sletvold Øistad.
Vi må tenke høyt om hvordan teknologi vil påvirke arbeidslivet i framtiden, og hva det vil gjøre med norsk likestillings- og familiepolitikk, skriver Mari Teigen.
Skal Norge som samfunn komme seg ut av oljeknipa, må vi satse på både sosial og teknologisk innovasjon, skriver Dag Ellingsen og Ulla-Britt Lilleaas. De mener Sørlandet særlig rammes, som følge av ensidig satsning på teknologi, kombinert med tradisjonell kjønnsrolletenkning.
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