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Andrea Pető: “Working within higher education has become high-risk”
The Hungarian researcher receives the University of Oslo's Human Rights Award for her work in academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Gender research is like the canary in the coal mine, she says.
Digital misogyny on the rise
Research shows that misogynist online communities have increased in numbers intensity and become more extreme in the past decade.
Changing perspectives in gender equality research
A new report has identified trends and knowledge gaps in Norwegian scientific publications on gender equality and diversity in research and innovation. According to the report, it is not a given that measures aimed at gender equality are also effective when it comes to ethnic diversity.
“We need queer life stories”
“I am surprised that the coming-out stories are still so important, and that coming out is so stressful and difficult for young people also today,” says researcher.
“Research needs criticism”
All disciplines need criticism, both from within their own ranks and in the media. But if the criticism is unreasonable and personal, it can threaten freedom of speech in academia, believes one Swedish gender researcher.
From gender equality to inclusion
How will gender equality efforts in the research sector evolve as we take more and more groups into consideration?
Critical colleagues may prevent researchers from stepping into the public eye
Researchers are particularly worried about criticism from colleagues and superiors working in the same field, according to sociologist Marte Mangset. In a new book, she has studied factors that may prevent researchers from expressing themselves in the media.
Fascism and Masculine Ideals – Thoughts on the Russian War in Ukraine
It may be fitting to observe the war in Ukraine through the lens of gender equality, according to Erik Melander.
“We are not certain why endometriosis occurs”
According to specialists, more knowledge about causes, more funding, and more education may provide better treatment of the condition currently affecting one in ten women.
“A woman’s international career seldom takes priority”
Even though more women researchers are coming from abroad than before, it is often more difficult for a woman to move her family to Norway, asserts researcher Ingvild Reymert.
Could have foreseen many intimate partner homicides
The risk factors are primarily previous acts of domestic violence, according to Solveig Vatnar. She has been the lead researcher of two national studies on intimate partner homicides.
New policy brief from Kilden
Nature management is an area with conflicts of interest. Whoever decides over nature is a question of democracy – and thus also equality. Kilden recently published a policy brief called “Nature management and gender equality: how do they relate?” where you can learn more about this important issue.
Could have foreseen many intimate partner homicides
The risk factors are primarily previous acts of domestic violence, according to Solveig Vatnar. She has been the lead researcher of two national studies on intimate partner homicides.
Won MA thesis award for new reading of Japanese novel
Thea Johanne Prytz Hammarqvist has written about a hundred-year-old Japanese novel that challenged the idea of heterosexual marriage as the only correct choice for women.
Is the term ‘intersectionality’ being misused?
A new doctoral dissertation by Amund Rake Hoffart takes a critical look at how theoreticians discuss intersectionality in academia.
Most read news articles in 2021
Articles about Simone de Beauvoir, Game of Thrones and Harry Potter were among the most read articles on Kilden genderresearch.no last year.
Women more severely affected by tinnitus than men are
More men than women are affected by ear buzz, but the consequences are greater for women. Women also have a higher risk of severe hereditary tinnitus, according to a research project.
What's on
The National Gender Studies Conference – G22
The next national gender studies conference in Sweden – G22 – will be held at the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, with the title “Shaping hopeful futures in times of uncertainties: the challenges and possibilities of gender studies”.
Men, Masculinities, Intersectionalities: The Nordic Research Conference
This conference focuses on how intersectional perspectives can contribute to and enrich our understanding on men, masculinities and differences in the context of current globalocal hybrid-form challenges. Organized by The Finnish Association for Men’s Studies, Tampere University, Finnish Council for Gender Equality, and Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research.
