Sökning: "academia equality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden academia equality.
1. "Akademins (o)föränderliga genusmönster" : En analys av jämställdhetsinsater vid Luleå tekniska universitet
Sammanfattning : I denna avhandling fokuseras akademins (o)föränderliga genusmönster för att öka kunskapen om förutsättningarna för långsiktig förändring av rådande genusmönster i akademin. Trots olika jämställdhetsinsatser vid högskolor och universitet är de nämligen fortfarande könssegregerade, vilket är speciellt tydligt på höga positioner. LÄS MER
2. Mapping Gender in Academic Workplaces : Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality
Sammanfattning : Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. LÄS MER
3. Sexuella trakasserier finns nog i en annan värld : Konstruktioner av ett (o)giltigt problem
Sammanfattning : The focus of this dissertation is how gender, heterosexuality and sexual harassment are constructed in an academic setting, based on in-depth interviews with 15 female PhD-students on how they talk about, understand and interpret experiences of gender and sexual harassment in academia. In the first part of the analysis, the informants’ own descriptions of their academic contexts are studied. LÄS MER
4. Pyramider och pipelines : Om högskolesystemets påverkan på jämställdhet i högskolan
Sammanfattning : Research on gender equality in Swedish higher education shows an unequal gender balance. Women are consistently underrepresented at the highest levels of the academic hierarchy. The lack of gender equality in academia has been illustrated by metaphors such as a narrowing pyramid, a leaky pipeline and a black hole. LÄS MER
5. Gender equality and meritocracy : contradictory discourses in the Academy
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how gender equality measures and discourses are reconciled with notions of merit in academia. Gender equality is often defined as equal rights for women and men and has become a widely accepted political goal and vision. LÄS MER