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Gaps and Silences: Gender and Climate Policies in the Global North
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)For decades, feminist activists and scholars have stressed the importance of integrating gender perspectives into the most defining challenge of our time: the climate disaster. In this article, we analyze official Norwegian ... -
Gender Balance in Executive Management: Top-Managers' Understanding of Barriers and Solutions from the Demand-Supply Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The under-representation of women in executive management stands in contrast to their educational attainment, and labor market participation in most countries. This paper examines to what degree top-managers in the gender ... -
Gender balance on company boards: a summary from a research project about the impact of the Norwegian gender quota legislation
(Rapport - Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Research report, 2015)This report summarizes main findings from the research project: Effects of gender balance in corporate boards. The project is financed by the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. The report consists of nine ... -
Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Nordic Region
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Gender disparities in top-level academic positions are persistent. However, whether bias in recruitment plays a role in producing these disparities remains unclear. This study examines the role of bias in academic recruitment ... -
Gender differences and similarities in work preferences: Results from a factorial survey experiment
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Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Trade unions have changed from being male dominated to majority-female organizations. We use linked employer–employee surveys for Norway and Britain to examine whether, in keeping with a median voter model, the gender shift ... -
Gender equality in sickness absence tolerance: Attitudes and norms of sickness absence are not different for men and women
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Gender Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers
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The Gender Pay Gap Among PhD Holders in Sweden and Norway
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Gender quotas for corporate boards: do they lead to more women in senior executive management?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Abstract Purpose The European Union (EU) has recently adopted gender quotas for corporate boards (CBQ), anticipating ripple effects on women’s careers in the companies concerned, as well as throughout the economy. The ... -
Gender segregation in vocational education: Introduction
(Chapter, 2015)This introductory chapter develops the overall research focus and the aim of the present special issue ‘Gender segregation in vocational education’. Against the backdrop of strong horizontal gender segregation in vocational ... -
Gendered Consequences of Social Mobility: Second-Generation Immigrants’ Work–Care Considerations in High-Status Occupations in Norway
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Generosity in Times of Crisis. Norwegian helping behaviors during the corona pandemic
(Research report, 2021)The corona pandemic has thrown the world into a health crisis that has had devastating effects on the global economy and public life in many countries. Little is known about how people have responded to two competing ... -
Geografisk variasjon i sosial mobilitet: Polarisering i arbeidslivet, fraflyting og mødres yrkesaktivitet
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Getting out the vote : Experiments in voter mobilization among immigrants and natives in Norway
(Rapport - Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Research report, 2016)This report describes the results of two sets of randomized Get-Out-the-Vote experiments, testing the effectiveness of mail mobilization appeals directed at immigrants as well as SMS text messages directed at both immigrants ... -
Getting out the vote in different electoral contexts: the effect of impersonal voter mobilization techniques in middle and high salience Norwegian elections
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article reports on two sets of field experiments testing text messaging (SMS) among native Norwegian voters and live phone calls among young voters eligible to vote in their first election. The two sets of experiments ... -
Gift, men ugift : Om utenomrettslige religiøse vigsler
(Rapport - Institutt for samfunnsforskning;2014:06, Research report, 2014)Rapporten er skrevet på oppdrag fra Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet. Formålet har vært å gi myndighetene et bedre kunnskapsgrunnlag for tiltak som kan motvirke eventuelle negative aspekter og konsekvenser ved (kun) ... -
Gjennomtrekk av ansatte over tid: Ulike trender i forskjellige næringer?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)I denne artikkelen studeres det, på bakgrunn av data over alle norske arbeidstakerforhold i perioden 1989 til 2013, om arbeidstakerne siden tidlig 1990-tallet kan ha blitt mer mobile i den forstand at de lettere flytter ...