Imagine that you want to buy a toy for a child. You get into a toy store and a toy store employee asks if they can help you. What information would you provide in order to find the best toy within the planned budget? Child’s age, interests… and probably their gender?
We, that is Tatjana Graf and Rasika Mahajan, attended a workshop on “doing feminist, gender, and diversity research in and around organizations” organised by Aalto University in Helsinki in March 2023. As we found ourselves discussing and exchanging inspiring content also after arriving back in our home university, we want to share our reflections in this blog post.
The Nordic countries seem to enjoy a reputation as champions in the area of gender equality, and research seems to confirm this: There are four Nordic countries among the top five counties with the smallest gender gap listed in the Global Gender Gap Report (Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden). Similarly, on the European Gender Equality Index, which gives each country a score ranging from 1 to 100, Sweden receives the highest score of 83.9 and both Denmark (77.8) and Finland (75.4) are among the top scorers (EIGE, 2022).
In this podcast episode, G-Versity researcher Ana-Nzinga Weiß speaks with Miriam Siemon. Miriam is a PhD student in the field of Gender Media Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Next to that she is politically active in the feminist working group of the Green Party in Berlin.
Who are you? To answer this question, you need to gather all your identities, evaluate them, and decide on their ranking. This ranking can be dynamic. It can change as the surrounding environment and culture change. You could be one person in your home city, yet a completely different person in a country oceans away.
Welcome to the Social Psychology Glossary!
In these posts, I will explain Social Psychology terms and theories and add some examples from research.
Today we will explain what Attributional and Explanatory Styles are.
Let’s start!
In March I had the opportunity to travel to Uppsala, a tiny university town close to Stockholm (Sweden), to meet Queer Theory luminary Jack Halberstam. Uppsala University’s Center for Gender Studies had in fact organized a Queer Studies symposium titled Thinking Wildly with Jack Halberstam. But who is Jack Halberstam? And how can one think wildly?
Doing a PhD involves engaging in an ongoing learning process; always trying to build on your existing knowledge. You often need to learn things on the fly, or teach yourself new skills to progress to the next stage of your project. Usually, this is a gradual process, but recently I had the opportunity to attend …
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In this podcast episode, Shannon O’Rourke (she/her) speaks to Helen Bowie (they/she) about what drew them to work in the LGBT+ sector, and particularly the LGBT+ Consortium, national (UK) specialist infrastructure group that supports LGBT+ groups and organizations (see: Consortium).
During my non-academic secondment, I worked together with Elizabeth Pollitzer from PORTIA, who is also involved in another EU project dedicated to the fair energy transition. Extending my research on emotionality in organizational diversity statements, we researched how European companies listed in the STOXX 600 stock index communicate about the relationship between environmental sustainability and gender inequality.
In this video, ESR Tatjana Graf reflects on her personal “day-to-day” experiences, struggles and thoughts as a Marie Curie fellow. Tatjana highlights the challenge of balancing work-related travel for collaborations, data collection and secondment with visiting family and friends in different countries.
Twisting the well-known conjunction fallacy to reveal our reliance on race and sexual orientation stereotypes
“One of the most important things is solidarity between women”.
I don’t think there is another sentence that has burned itself into my consciousness more than this call for solidarity during my Bachelor’s degree in European Ethnology. Discussing the effects of capitalism, power imbalance, and gender inequality in everyday life, my professors emphasized the importance of solidarity as a form of empathy, support and awareness of different needs and life situations, to counteract the inequality-creating structures of society.
In this podcast, ESR Rasika Mahajan has interviewed Dr. Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, Asst. Professor at Radboud University and they unpack postcolonial feminism based on their own experiences and identities as South Asian women, and their journey with rediscovering themselves, their roots and their historical past. They deconstruct oppression, and talk about the connection between the past and the present as a result of colonial encounters. They discuss how this lens can be incorporated into methodology in order to conduct responsible research.
In this podcast episode, G-VERSITY Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) speak about the unexpected. They describe the things that were more challenging, or more rewarding than they anticipated. Listen here to learn more about the joys and the struggles of fifteen PhD students:
In this video, ESR Sofia Bracco illustrates reading recommendations on gender-related literature by G-VERSITY supervisors. Professors Yvonne Benschop, Peter Hegarty, Carola Richter, and Marie Gustafsson Sendén share the texts that changed the way they think about gender research and should be read by anyone working in the field:
In this podcast episode, G-VERSITY ESR Shannon O’Rourke (she/her) speaks with Paul Roberts (he/him), the CEO of the LGBT+ Consortium. The Consortium is proud to be the umbrella body for an inclusive and diverse LGBT+ sector across the United Kingdom, and is also one of G-VERSITY’s non-academic partners.
The centre of my PhD project is organisational communication about diversity. Usually, organisations communicate their value of diversity in so-called diversity statements. For example, this is a statement from Netflix:
In this episode, we will be introducing Cameryn Moore, a playwright and performer who started Smut Slam in 2011. Smut Slam is an international, open mic storytelling event that encourages audience members to share stories about their own sex lives. By doing so, Smut Slam seeks to destigmatise conversations about sex in public and open up dialogue about pleasure and intimacy.
The job market is majorly responsible for burnout experience for adults – the feeling of chronic exhaustion, cynical attitude, and lack of efficacy are specific to the work context.
When you are burned out, you will experience the unwillingness to go to work, a general inadequacy at work, and a feeling that you are drowning in job-related matters. No amount of rest is enough, you will feel this internal tiredness and a lack of motivation. All of us have probably experienced some level of job burnout in our lives. For people who have experienced this, it is only natural to find out that studies have shown that higher job burnout is directly linked to absenteeism, turnover rate, and even physical health condition.
