Conscription 2.0: Compulsory Military Service and the Rise of Women in the Swedish Armed Forces
ABSTRACT This article provides a deeper understanding of gender integration in the Swedish Armed Forces, often portrayed as a “North Star” of gender equality, by studying (1) numeric data on the presence of women in the SAF from 2001 to 2023, (2) how official SAF personnel documents describe and explain these data, and (3) how gender integration ...
Elin Berg, Ralph Sundberg
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Workplace Sexual Harassment and the Risk of Chronic Disease in a Prospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
Freels S +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines working‐class women academics' labor as constituting transformative praxis within the capitalist university. Drawing on oral history interviews with 28 Australian women academics from working‐class backgrounds, I demonstrate that working‐class women occupy contradictory class positions simultaneously, exploited through ...
Piper A. Bell
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#MEDToo - sexual harassment in medical education: perceptions and coping strategies of medical students in Germany, a qualitative study. [PDF]
Drossard S +4 more
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From Stigma to Support: Exploring Perceptions of Menstrual Leave Policies in European Workplaces
ABSTRACT Menstrual leave is an emerging reproductive health organizational policy gaining attention in Europe but research remains limited. Drawing on 45 semi‐structured interviews with menstruating and nonmenstruating workers in Croatia, Germany, and Italy, we applied thematic analysis to explore workplace perceptions of menstruation and menstrual ...
Paula E. Wasner +4 more
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"Okay, So It's Not Me"-The <i>Extra-Fatigue</i> of Formal and Informal Reporting of Sexual Harassment in Academia. [PDF]
Binik O +8 more
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Permission to Rise: Self‐Permission and Career Resilience for Women
ABSTRACT Women remain underrepresented in leadership and are more likely than men to reduce their workforce participation or step back from their careers, particularly when navigating caregiving responsibilities. Although these aggregate gender differences motivate the present study, our goal is not to explain differences between women and men directly.
Kelly Watson, Jodi Detjen
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Turkish adaptation of the nurses' sexual harassment scale: validity and reliability study. [PDF]
Yeşilfidan D, Adana F, Özkan M.
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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi
ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio +3 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines discourses of gender discrimination in Turkey's business enterprise sector of research and development (R&D), where women comprise only 27% of the workforce. Drawing on 308 surveys and 52 in‐depth interviews with professionals across three major R&D centers and a university technopark, it analyzes the discursive formations ...
Setenay Nil Doğan, Ece Öztan
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