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Topics: Gender equality

  •   Maja Adolfsson, Anneli Lundmark and Anna Baranowska-Rataj. Image: Ulrika Sahlén, Skogtekniska klustret, Przemysław Chrostowski

    Temporary employment may consolidate labor market inequality

    A new study from Umeå University show that temporary workers receive less employer-paid training than permanent workers. However, having a union representative present at the workplace can be beneficial for all workers that want to develop their competences.

  • Umeå University annual academic ceremony in 2019 for new professors, honorary doctors and award recipients. Photo by Mattias Pettersson

    Sex differences in merits amongst newly appointed professors

    Women constitute only 27 percent of academics with the rank of professor in Sweden, in spite of several decades of equal opportunities promotion efforts. "A common explanation is that women’s achievements are valued less than men’s," says Guy Madison, one of the authors of a new study from Umeå University.

  • Grada Kilomba, Illusions Vol. III, Antigone, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

    Opening at Bildmuseet: Grada Kilomba / A World of Illusions

    Bildmuseet, Sweden, presents Grada Kilomba’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia; a trilogy of poetic film installations that use antique dramas to highlight postcolonial issues of racism, gender oppression and violence. The exhibition is the premiere of the third chapter of the trilogy, and the large scale video works are thereby being exhibited together for the very first time.