Search results for " equality"

What is your couple type? Gender ideology, housework-sharing, and babies

2015

AbstractBACKGROUNDIt is increasingly acknowledged that not only gender equality but also gender ideology plays a role in explaining fertility in advanced societies. In a micro perspective, the potential mismatch between gender equality (i.e., the actual sharing taking place in a couple) and gender ideology (i.e., attitudes and beliefs regarding gender roles) may drive childbearing decisions.OBJECTIVEThis paper assesses the impact of consistency between gender equality in attitudes and equality in the division of household labour on the likelihood of having another child, for different parities.METHODSRelying on two-wave panel data of the Bulgarian, Czech, French, Hungarian, and Lithuanian G…

Leadership practices in relation to men's work-family balance in Finnish organizations

2020

Leadership practices in organizations play an important role in shaping the conditions for employees’ work-family balance. Previous research on the topic has mainly focused on women; fathers are said to receive little support from leadership for combining work and family. In this study, the focus is on men working in six Finnish organizations representing male-dominated, female-dominated and gender-balanced organizations. Although Finland is considered a frontrunner in gender equality globally, Finnish women still carry the main responsibility for housework and child-care. Through a discursive approach, we seek to answer the following research question: What kind of discourses do working me…

The sidelining of gender equality in a corporatist and knowledge-oriented regime : The case of failed family leave reform in Finland

2020

Reform of the family leave system has been on the Finnish political agenda for a long time but has proved to be a challenging task. The challenges relate to ideological differences between the political parties and to non-decision making in tripartite working groups, where the labour market parties participate in policy formulation. The article analyses the recent attempt to reform the Finnish family leave system under a right-conservative government (2015–2019) as an example of how diverging political ideologies and vested interests undermine adoption of government gender equality policy. The case also serves as an example of the growing influence of knowledge, and especially economic know…

Koulutuksellisen tasa-arvon diskurssit ja toimijat peruskoulun tuntijakouudistuksessa

2017

In this research the interest was to understand the discursive formation of educational equality in political texts concerning the national core curriculum in Finland in the beginning of 2010s. The research problem was to describe and analyze discourses of educational equality and to analyze who are portrayed as actors of educational equality. The material consists of statements which different organizations, administrative bodies of education and private individuals gave in response to presentations, prepared in 2010 and 2012, regarding the objectives of the comprehensive school and the distribution of lesson hours. The research is based on critical discourse analysis and the analysis of s…

Educational equality discourses in the Finnish comprehensive school system

2017

Libertad de expresión y el caso del lenguaje del odio. Una aproximación desde la perspectiva norteamericana y la perspectiva alemana

2010

Resumen Este artículo analiza las concepciones sobre la libertad de expresión en el caso del lenguaje del odio, centrándose en algunos aspectos de la perspectiva norteamericana y en algunos aspectos de la perspectiva alemana. El primer modelo está basado en la libertad negativa y se corresponde con la visión del mercado de las ideas que ha elaborado la jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema norteamericana. Este Tribunal ha otorgado una papel prioritario a la libertad de expresión, que debería limitarse sólo en casos de un peligro claro y presente o amenaza de desordenes públicos. El segundo modelo, centrado en la libertad positiva, otorga un papel prioritario a la dignidad humana frente a la l…

El alcance práctico del lenguaje no sexista solicitado desde el plano normativo: ¿Una cuestión resuelta?

2011

RESUMEN. En el ámbito jurídico cada vez es más frecuente encontrar expresiones que hacen alusión a la utilización de un lenguaje no sexista. El plano normativo quizá sea uno de los más representativos. En este trabajo se consideran varias leyes de igualdad donde aparecen expresiones de este tipo. Partiendo de esta circunstancia, se pretende dejar constancia de la dificultad que entraña la interpretación del alcance práctico de dichas expresiones. De otro lado se consideran también algunas prácticas que ya se pueden apreciar en nuestros días, y que aunque en principio pudieran considerarse una solución a la circunstancia precedente, también ofrecen algunos problemas.ABSTRACT. In the legal wo…

Panorama actual del pensamiento español en torno al género y los derechos

2011

RESUMEN Este trabajo muestra el enfrentamiento entre dos modelos que, para solucionar la cuestión femenina, ofrecen su particular definición del sujeto. Desde la posición denominada de la Igualdad de género, el sujeto se define por una esencia mínima común al ser humano, abierta al diálogo y referente a unas cualidades humanas conectadas con la dignidad. Se añade la absoluta compatibilidad de esa esencia igual con las diferencias de todos los individuos entre sí. Por su parte, el modelo que, paradójicamente, se ha denominado Ideología de género afirma una esencia humana prefijada por naturaleza y completamente indisponible. Junto a ella, se entiende la existencia de dos tipos de persona o i…

Is fatherhood allowed? : Media discourses of fatherhood in organizational life

2019

It has been claimed that in the context of organizations and management, fathers are invisible. One source of tension for fathers who work and who want to participate in family life is that even though involved fatherhood is emerging in many western societies, a family-oriented male identity is likely to be problematic for men in organizations. This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of a professional and managerial men's work-family relationship using discourse analysis on data from three different media sources in Finland, published during 1990-2015. We identified two competing discourses: one of stasis, the other of change. The stasis discourse is constructed around tra…

Does Gender Matter? - A Case Study of the Lack of Female Sport Managers in the Football Associations of Finland and Norway

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 The aim of this research is to address why there are fewer female leaders in the football associations of Finland and Norway and what are the underlying factors influencing the phenomenon. The research problem is approached with a multiple case study method, the object of research being the factors influencing women’s careers in the football associations.The empirical material of this qualitative research consists of interviews of three female and two male leaders from the football association of Finland and two female and two male leaders from the football association of Norway. The interview data …