Nordic Gender Equality Policy in a Europeanisation Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781032083766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Knut Dørum

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role Nordic countries have played as exporters and importers of gender equality policies, and of how Europeanisation has framed the development and harmonisation of legislation and politics between the countries, with global consequences.

Spis treści

1. Perspectives on Nordic gender equality policy and EuropeanisationKnut Dørum2. Same-sex families: The cause and effect of Nordic harmonizationHrefna Friðriksdóttir3. How could equal parental leaves be promoted in Europe? Lessons from Swedish lesbian families. Anna Malmquist4. Swedish gender equalityRoger Klint5. Bureaucracy of Gender Equality: Europeanisation in Nordic Context?Laila Nordstrand Berg and Zuzana Murdoch6. "Lessons from Norway" - how gender quotas on corporate boards was transformed from unthinkable to exportableSiri Øyslebø Sørensen7. Gender, Excellence and Research FundingKristine P. Miland8. Fathers’ quotas as gender equality policiesBerit Brandth and Elin Kvande9. Europeanization Processes and Bodily Politics: Stalking and Online HarassmentHelene Pristed Nielsen, Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Stine Thidemann Faber10. The Role of Ethics in Gender Equality Strategies in Academia: Nordic and European PerspectivesÅsa-Karin Engstrand

O autorze

Knut Dørum is professor of history at the University of Agder and at the University of Bergen in Norway. His recent research interests touch upon political and social history from below in the period c. 1750–2018. He has published extensively nationally and internationally on urban history, political culture, democratisation, gender equality policies and female entrepreneurship. He is one of the few male Norwegian historians involved in gender history. His books include From subjects to citizens: Government and political culture in Norway c. 1660–1884 (author), Politics, profession and awakening: Women in Norway in the 19^th and 20^th century (editor and co-author), Absolutism in decline (co-editor and co-author), and Politics in Europe c. 1800-2010 (author, forthcoming). In 2017, he and three other co-authors won silver award in the contest of the exclusive prize Best European Learning Materials Award, co-organised by the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media, and the European Educational Publishers Group.