Mentoring for change is a gender-integrated mentoring programme conducted in 2018/2019 by the Fac... more Mentoring for change is a gender-integrated mentoring programme conducted in 2018/2019 by the Faculty of Science at Lund University. It is part of the faculty's strategic work on gender equality and has been funded by grants from within the University. The programme was developed in late 2017-2018 by Professors Inger Lövkrona and Tomas Brage, and Work Environment Coordinator at the Faculty of Science, Ragnhild Möller. As far as we know, in Sweden, Mentoring for change has been an untested form of mentorship with a double (bifocal) approach, in which both the participants in the programme and the faculty organisation are developed. The idea is that mentors and mentees together learn to see and identify obstacles in academia that make gender equality more difficult. Mentors and mentees should act together as "partners for change" and propose organisational changes to increase diversity and equality within higher education. The inspiration comes mainly from Dr. Jennifer de Vries, University of Melbourne, Australia. She has many years of experience in similar programmes and works with both mentorship and sponsorship. The design of group mentorship was taken from European mentoring programmes within academia, which have been described and analysed over the past ten years in a series of reports and articles. With regard to both design and implementation, we have tried to translate existing knowledge into a Swedish academic context. All parts of Mentoring for Change are in fact research-based, and with this report, we hope to contribute with additional knowledge about mentoring programmes that promote gender equality in academia. This report describes the programme, how we have implemented it, and the reflections and recommendations from the participants and the steering group. The report is based on material produced before, during and after the programme, and on the surevy that the participants responded to at the end of the programme. This report is published both in Swedish and English. In the EU, there is a major interest in working methods to eliminate the lack of gender equality and to address discrimination in academia. Similar to the University's gender-integrated leadership programme AKKA, we hope that this mentoring programme will be viewed as a good example and disseminated to other universities-nationally and internationally. An important channel for international dissemination is LERU's (League of European Research Universities) thematic group for "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion", of which Lund is part.
... Faculty of Arts History and Philosophy Section. Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. Div... more ... Faculty of Arts History and Philosophy Section. Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. Division of Ethnology with the Folk Life Archives. 2005 Swedish. In: En blick från sidan. Genusforskning under tre decennier. - Gondolin. ...
Little research has been carried out into the social and cultural construction of gender in pre-i... more Little research has been carried out into the social and cultural construction of gender in pre-industrial Swedish society. Women are very often depicted äs having been independent, firm and powerful, responsible for all domestic work and the social equals of their husbands. This description is based on studies of the division of labor between the sexes. The structure of gender relations, the gender System, has been thought of äs Symmetrie and complementary, äs something 'naturaP and functional. Men and women are different but equal to each other. The biological difference, the fact that women give birth to children, is supposed to have predisposed men and women to separate working areas, generating gender-specific qualities, abilities and behavior. Other aspects of the lives of men and women, such äs reproduction and sexuality, tend to be overlooked in this perspective. Studies of sexual norms and behavior, however, indicate a more complex and, in several aspects, a somewhat contradictory picture. Like other European countries, pre-modern Sweden was a patriarchy. Women were regarded in legal terms äs being underaged minors. So long äs they were unmarried, they remained under the guardianship of their fathers; and when married they feil under that of their husbands. They were by law excluded from certain public activities and decisionmaking, and their ownership and property rights were also restricted. In these respects, thus, the gender relation was unequivocally asymmetric and male dominated. It is seldom today that these circumstances are taken into consideration and held to reflect or to have had any impact on social behavior and cultural norms 2. Erotic Folklore and Folk Discourse Erotic folklore is, in general, an important source of folk discourse on gender and sexuality. The notion of 'folk discourse* is used here in the sense of how people 'talk' and 'think' about such matters. Folk discourse is one of the means 1 Enlarged Version of a paper presented at the lOth Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research in Innsbruck, July 1992.1 am grateful to Dr D. E. Weston for help with translation and laneuage questions. 2 These studies are discussed in Lövkrona, Inger: Nyckelknippans semiotik. Den starka bondkvinnan-myt eller verklighet? In: Nordisk etnologi och folkloristik under 1980-talet (Etnolore 9. Skrifter frän etnologiska Institutionen Uppsala universitet). ed.
Academic culture has long been characterized by vertical gender segregation-the higher up in the ... more Academic culture has long been characterized by vertical gender segregation-the higher up in the hierarchy the greater the number of men. For decades, the government has tried to address the academy's lack of gender equality by way of a national gender equality policy. This article discusses the political efforts of recent decades to achieve gender equality in senior leadership positions in academia. What strategies and measures have been implemented and what effects have they had? I take my starting point in Swedish and international research on gender equality initiatives to attract more women into academic leadership positions, as well as in my own experiences from a gender-integrated leadership development program for future deans at Lund University. In conclusion, I argue for a feminist intervention-a gender-conscious "nomadic" leadership-as a possible path to change. Is it the case that feminist interventions, and not simply gender equality initiatives, are necessary for change to take place?
In this study, we used data from LinkedIn networks to gain insight in how different groups networ... more In this study, we used data from LinkedIn networks to gain insight in how different groups network in terms of network size and gender composition among men and women. We have gathered categorical data from 751 LinkedIn networks to quantitatively analyze networking tendencies and network gender compositions in the categories gender, age, sector of work, field of work, level of education and area of residence. We have also determined networking "savviness" as a quantitative measure of social networking for comparing groups in the categories. The observations made regarding networking behavior among female and male LinkedIn users include that women on average had more female contacts than men in all categories. Female networks working in a non-technical field were found to have the most gender equal networks of all groups with an average of 42.5% female contacts. The data show further, that men and women in STEM and the private sector were savvier networkers and that users with a PhD had fewer female contacts on average than those without a PhD. Further, Scandinavian networks had significantly more female contacts in their networks than networks from other European countries and North America had.
Mentoring for change is a gender-integrated mentoring programme conducted in 2018/2019 by the Fac... more Mentoring for change is a gender-integrated mentoring programme conducted in 2018/2019 by the Faculty of Science at Lund University. It is part of the faculty's strategic work on gender equality and has been funded by grants from within the University. The programme was developed in late 2017-2018 by Professors Inger Lövkrona and Tomas Brage, and Work Environment Coordinator at the Faculty of Science, Ragnhild Möller. As far as we know, in Sweden, Mentoring for change has been an untested form of mentorship with a double (bifocal) approach, in which both the participants in the programme and the faculty organisation are developed. The idea is that mentors and mentees together learn to see and identify obstacles in academia that make gender equality more difficult. Mentors and mentees should act together as "partners for change" and propose organisational changes to increase diversity and equality within higher education. The inspiration comes mainly from Dr. Jennifer de Vries, University of Melbourne, Australia. She has many years of experience in similar programmes and works with both mentorship and sponsorship. The design of group mentorship was taken from European mentoring programmes within academia, which have been described and analysed over the past ten years in a series of reports and articles. With regard to both design and implementation, we have tried to translate existing knowledge into a Swedish academic context. All parts of Mentoring for Change are in fact research-based, and with this report, we hope to contribute with additional knowledge about mentoring programmes that promote gender equality in academia. This report describes the programme, how we have implemented it, and the reflections and recommendations from the participants and the steering group. The report is based on material produced before, during and after the programme, and on the surevy that the participants responded to at the end of the programme. This report is published both in Swedish and English. In the EU, there is a major interest in working methods to eliminate the lack of gender equality and to address discrimination in academia. Similar to the University's gender-integrated leadership programme AKKA, we hope that this mentoring programme will be viewed as a good example and disseminated to other universities-nationally and internationally. An important channel for international dissemination is LERU's (League of European Research Universities) thematic group for "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion", of which Lund is part.
... Faculty of Arts History and Philosophy Section. Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. Div... more ... Faculty of Arts History and Philosophy Section. Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. Division of Ethnology with the Folk Life Archives. 2005 Swedish. In: En blick från sidan. Genusforskning under tre decennier. - Gondolin. ...
Little research has been carried out into the social and cultural construction of gender in pre-i... more Little research has been carried out into the social and cultural construction of gender in pre-industrial Swedish society. Women are very often depicted äs having been independent, firm and powerful, responsible for all domestic work and the social equals of their husbands. This description is based on studies of the division of labor between the sexes. The structure of gender relations, the gender System, has been thought of äs Symmetrie and complementary, äs something 'naturaP and functional. Men and women are different but equal to each other. The biological difference, the fact that women give birth to children, is supposed to have predisposed men and women to separate working areas, generating gender-specific qualities, abilities and behavior. Other aspects of the lives of men and women, such äs reproduction and sexuality, tend to be overlooked in this perspective. Studies of sexual norms and behavior, however, indicate a more complex and, in several aspects, a somewhat contradictory picture. Like other European countries, pre-modern Sweden was a patriarchy. Women were regarded in legal terms äs being underaged minors. So long äs they were unmarried, they remained under the guardianship of their fathers; and when married they feil under that of their husbands. They were by law excluded from certain public activities and decisionmaking, and their ownership and property rights were also restricted. In these respects, thus, the gender relation was unequivocally asymmetric and male dominated. It is seldom today that these circumstances are taken into consideration and held to reflect or to have had any impact on social behavior and cultural norms 2. Erotic Folklore and Folk Discourse Erotic folklore is, in general, an important source of folk discourse on gender and sexuality. The notion of 'folk discourse* is used here in the sense of how people 'talk' and 'think' about such matters. Folk discourse is one of the means 1 Enlarged Version of a paper presented at the lOth Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research in Innsbruck, July 1992.1 am grateful to Dr D. E. Weston for help with translation and laneuage questions. 2 These studies are discussed in Lövkrona, Inger: Nyckelknippans semiotik. Den starka bondkvinnan-myt eller verklighet? In: Nordisk etnologi och folkloristik under 1980-talet (Etnolore 9. Skrifter frän etnologiska Institutionen Uppsala universitet). ed.
Academic culture has long been characterized by vertical gender segregation-the higher up in the ... more Academic culture has long been characterized by vertical gender segregation-the higher up in the hierarchy the greater the number of men. For decades, the government has tried to address the academy's lack of gender equality by way of a national gender equality policy. This article discusses the political efforts of recent decades to achieve gender equality in senior leadership positions in academia. What strategies and measures have been implemented and what effects have they had? I take my starting point in Swedish and international research on gender equality initiatives to attract more women into academic leadership positions, as well as in my own experiences from a gender-integrated leadership development program for future deans at Lund University. In conclusion, I argue for a feminist intervention-a gender-conscious "nomadic" leadership-as a possible path to change. Is it the case that feminist interventions, and not simply gender equality initiatives, are necessary for change to take place?
In this study, we used data from LinkedIn networks to gain insight in how different groups networ... more In this study, we used data from LinkedIn networks to gain insight in how different groups network in terms of network size and gender composition among men and women. We have gathered categorical data from 751 LinkedIn networks to quantitatively analyze networking tendencies and network gender compositions in the categories gender, age, sector of work, field of work, level of education and area of residence. We have also determined networking "savviness" as a quantitative measure of social networking for comparing groups in the categories. The observations made regarding networking behavior among female and male LinkedIn users include that women on average had more female contacts than men in all categories. Female networks working in a non-technical field were found to have the most gender equal networks of all groups with an average of 42.5% female contacts. The data show further, that men and women in STEM and the private sector were savvier networkers and that users with a PhD had fewer female contacts on average than those without a PhD. Further, Scandinavian networks had significantly more female contacts in their networks than networks from other European countries and North America had.
Uploads
Papers by Inger Lövkrona