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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.
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.
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.
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.
Female soldiers experienced more gender equality during wartime than in peace
“My studies from Colombia and Nepal show that many minors enlisted voluntarily and that their quality of life even improved as guerrilla soldiers,” says Wenche Iren Hauge.
What's on
Recognising sexual violence. Developing pathways to survivor-centred justice
To address the “justice deficit” in cases of sexual violence the international conference will explore alternative approaches to justice as part of efforts to hold the state and offenders to account. Organised by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland, the Law Faculty of Lund University and the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at Oslo University.
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”.
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