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Tracey Bowen; Maureen T.B. Drysdale; Sarah Callaghan; Sally Smith; Kristina Johansson; Colin Smith; Barbara Walsh; Tessa Berg – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study identifies gendered disparities among women students participating in work-integrated learning and explores the effects of the disparities on their perceptions on perceived opportunities, competencies, sense of belonging, and professional identity. Design/methodology/approach: A series of semi-structured focus groups were run…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, Work Experience Programs
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Drange, Ida; Pietilä, Maria; Reisel, Liza; Silander, Charlotte – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Which gender equality measures do Nordic universities use, and to what extent are the measures effective in increasing the share of women in top academic positions? Based on theories that distinguish between actor and structure-oriented measures, and between strategies of inclusion and transformation, we identified four types of measures: career…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), College Faculty
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Chungseo Kang; Minjong Youn – SAGE Open, 2024
Utilizing the Survey of Adult Skills from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the OECD database, this study investigates the role of gender inequality and public social spending in the gender gap in Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) risk across various age cohorts. The research identifies a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness, Adults
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Klenk, Tanja; Antonowicz, Dominik; Geschwind, Lars; Pinheiro, Rómulo; Pokorska, Anna – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
There is growing interest in the underlying mechanisms affecting female leaders in Higher Education (HE). This article compares four countries -- Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden to identify key structural conditions (enablers and barriers) for female representation in academia by studying the regulative framework of government policy. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
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Ledman, Kristina; Nylund, Mattias; Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Gender and Education, 2021
This article reports results of an ethnographic study of how girls are positioned, and position themselves, in relation to gender regimes in three vocational programmes in Swedish upper secondary education: Restaurant Management & Food, Health & Social Care, and Vehicle & Transport. The comparison shows that there are different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Vocational Education, Femininity
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Jan Kalenda; Jitka Vaculíková; Ilona Kocvarová – Cogent Education, 2024
This study explores gender-related inequality in participation in Adult Education and Training (AET) in four countries with vastly different adult learning systems and support measures for women's AET. Our examination of the data from an original international survey conducted in 2022 has found that the participation of men and women clearly…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
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Madison, Guy; Fahlman, Pontus – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The proportion of women tends to decrease the higher the academic rank, following a global pattern. Sweden has taken comprehensive measures to decrease this gap across 30 years, and many countries are following a similar path. Yet today only 27% of faculty with the rank of professor in Sweden are female. A common explanation is that academia is…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Faculty, Gender Bias, Females
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Peterson, Helen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
Sweden is among the countries with the highest per cent of women university Vice Chancellors in Europe. In "She Figures 2012" the average proportion of female Vice Chancellors in the 27 European Union countries is estimated to be 10 per cent. In Sweden the number is much higher: 43 per cent. Swedish higher education management has…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, College Administration, Foreign Countries, Females
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Nielsen, Mathias Wullum – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study investigates how Denmark, Norway, and Sweden approach issues of gender equality in research differently. Based on a comparative document analysis of gender equality activities in six Scandinavian universities, together with an examination of the legislative and political frameworks surrounding these activities, the article provides new…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
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Angervall, Petra; Beach, Dennis; Gustafsson, Jan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Academic work in Sweden's higher education system is changing character. Distinctly different career pathways are emerging, as facilities for developing research careers and capital have become both more restricted and more dependent on external funding. These developments are in focus in the present article. Based on ethnographic research and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Women Faculty, Females
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Berggren, Caroline; Lauster, Nathanael – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2014
Transitions from education to work constitute a distinct set of situations where discrimination is likely to occur. Gender beliefs generally disadvantage women, and when coupled with beliefs regarding parental responsibility, tend to heavily disadvantage mothers. Yet we suggest that professional credentials create a divided labour market, with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family Work Relationship, Parent Role, Females
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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
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Peterson, Helen – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
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…
Descriptors: College Administration, Women Administrators, Faculty Workload, Females
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Teelken, Christine; Deem, Rosemary – Comparative Education, 2013
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate what impact new regimes of management and governance, including new managerialism, have had on perceptions of gender equality at universities in three Western European countries. While in accordance with national laws and EU directives, contemporary current management approaches in universities…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Females, Sex Fairness, Gender Differences
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Kodate, Naonori; Kodate, Kashiko; Kodate, Takako – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
The phenomenon of women's underrepresentation in engineering is well known. However, the slow progress in achieving better gender equality here compared with other domains has accentuated the "numbers" issue, while the quality aspects have been largely ignored. This study aims to shed light on both these aspects via the lens of mentors,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Mentors
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