Browsing Institute for Social Research - Open Arcive by Journals "Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society"
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Dynamics of Claims Making and Gender Wage Gaps in the United States and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This paper compares claims making and gender wage gaps in the United States and Norway, and asks how public sector employment moderates the association between gender segregation and the gender gap in wages in the two ... -
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value? Iceland and the Equal Pay Standard
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Job evaluation systems have a history of being critiqued as upholding gender inequality. Paradoxically, however, the Icelandic Equal Pay Standard (IEPS), a novel and publicly praised gender equality policy, is based on a ... -
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 Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers
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Legal harmonization and intersectionality in swedish and norwegian anti-discrimination reform
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This article investigates to what extent the challenging questions emerging from the intersectionality literature have been addressed in the process of reforming antidiscrimination legislation in Sweden and Norway. I find ... -
The Hierarchy of Care Work: How Immigrants Influence the Gender-Segregated Labor Market
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The devaluation of care work is regarded as a main explanation for the dominance of women in care work. However, less attention has been paid to how such devaluation affects not only the gender balance of jobs but also ...