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Naisten asema ja rooli Puolustusvoimissa

2020

”Mikä sai naisen lähtemään armeijaan?” Kysymys toistui useampaan otteeseen vuoden aikana suorittaessani naisten vapaaehtoista asepalvelusta. Astuin palvelukseen vuoden 2000 heinäkuussa, jolloin naisia oli ollut varusmiehinä vajaat viisi vuotta. Tänä vuonna naisten vapaaehtoisen asepalveluksen mahdollistavan lain voimaantulosta ja ensimmäisten naisten palvelukseen astumisesta tulee kuluneeksi kaksikymmentäviisi vuotta. Se on samalla sekä pitkä että lyhyt aika. Paljon on muuttunut siitä, kun itse palvelin varusmiehenä. Nainen on kuitenkin sotilaana yhä erikoisuus: aiheesta keskustellaan, sitä joutuu perustelemaan ja edelleen on niitä, joiden mielestä nainen ei kuulu armeijaan tai sotilaaksi. …

Outsiders Reflecting on Invisible Institutional Gender Norms

2022

In higher education (HE), especially in countries viewed as socially equal, often there are embedded normative institutional practices. This raises two intersecting issues: (1) how the perception of a Nordic social justice national ideology and policies may not translate into a reality for all and (2) how homogeneous non-colonial countries could contain invisible threads of gendered institutional coloniality which affect women and non-local/transnational women to a greater degree. Our study is unique as the research context is Finland, a Nordic socially equal country. The reality is that there is embedded inequity in institutionalized normative practices. The study employed a multi-perspect…

Ladies in armour : a phenomenological investigation of experiences of highly skilled Finnish female kendo athletes

2013

Women in sports have historically been marginalised. Feminist studies have revealed a struggle to balance athletic and feminine identities in “conventionally masculine” sports. However, there is a need to explore women's experiences in a variety of sports. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore the experiences of three highly skilled Finnish female athletes of Japanese kendo in order to better understand personal and social meanings of gender and sport. Participants were asked to write a personal story based on a prompt statement “A woman in kendo” and comment on other participant's stories. The data was then interpreted and the following broad themes emerged: personal…

Magic and Witchcraft in Their Everyday Context : Childhood Memories from the Nineteenth-century Finnish Countryside

2015

Narratives by women managers about spousal support for their careers

2014

In this article we present a qualitative study of spousal support for the careers of women managers. The research material consists of the narratives of 25 women managers in Finland. The study has two main implications. Firstly, unlike previous studies, we use a narrative approach to demonstrate that a woman manager's career and spousal support are experienced as ambiguous and evolving over the career. The support was constructed by the women managers as flourishing, irrelevant, deficient or inconsistent. Secondly, to increase our knowledge about gender relations, we combine discussion of the topic with gender order analysis and suggest that gender order is critical for an understanding of …

Crashing a National Media Event : Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland

2016

Tietäjiä, taikojia, hautausmaita : taikuus Suomessa 1700-luvun jälkipuoliskolla

2016

Notes on Shore Flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) from Finland and north-western Russia

2015

The recent checklist of the Ephydridae of Finland by Zatwarnicki and Kahanpää (2014) mentioned 13 ephydrid species as new for Finland without further details. This paper presents detailed records for those species and a few other species of interest. Four species are recorded for the first time from Russia. Trimerina indistincta Krivosheina, 2004 is herein considered as a new junior synonym of Trimerina microchaeta Hendel, 1932, syn. nov.

'We have a solution': Delivering on the promise to take national responsibility for nuclear waste management

2022

We examine the realization of the umbrella promise to assume national responsibility for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. Three case studies are used to illustrate how Finland delivers on the promise to take care of its own nuclear waste - a promise that has greatly contributed to the legitimacy of nuclear power in Finland. The article shows how this promise is being challenged by new competitors, business visionaries, and the public. The case studies illustrate the tensions between those who made the promise and the actors who interpret and mobilize the promise for varying purposes and under changing circumstances. We investigate techno-scientific promises by looking at debates ab…

Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006-2018.

2022

Aims: Loneliness is an important public health challenge for all ages. This study reports time trends of loneliness among adolescents over a 12-year period and analyses the strength of the associations between loneliness, health complaints, and medicine use. Methods: Data were derived from the cross-sectional Finnish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018. The study population is based on a random sample of schools with 20,444 participants aged 11–15 years. The trends were analysed with a Mantel–Haenszel test, and the strength of the associations was evaluated by mixed-effects logistic and linear regressions. Results: An increasing prevalence …