The article suggests that the new forms of inequalities among women can be interpreted as a Nordic gender equality paradox between the relative inclusion of the native majority women and the relative marginalization of women from diverse ethnic minorities in society. Originality/value - The ...
The Nordic welfare states are considered advanced in terms of gender equality, but even in these countries women still take longer family leave and have lower earnings than men. This study provides new insights by assessing the differences in accumulated midlife earnings associated with childbearing be...
In more recent years, however, historians have increasingly challenged and unpacked such brands,Footnote7while sociologists of modernity have long emphasized that the individual nation states are subject to the same broad trends as one another despite protestations of national difference.Footnote8With rega...
Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a global public health issue often assumed to be associated with gender inequality. The so-called Nordic Paradox, the apparently contradictory co-existence of high levels of IPVAW and of gender equality in Nordic countries, has not been ...
Four main categories of possible explanations for the Nordic Paradox were identified: Macro-micro disconnect (i.e., discordance between individual beliefs and behaviors and macro-social norms of gender equality), IPVAW as multicausal (i.e., IPVAW defined as a multicausal phenomenon that does ...
This phenomenon, which has been termed the Nordic paradox, requires elucidation. The aim of this review is to explore what previous qualitative studies, based on interviews with or field observations of victims, perpetrators, or professionals working in the area, primarily in Sweden, have to ...
Berggren H, Trägårdh L (2011) Social trust and radical individualism: the paradox at the heart of Nordic capitalism. In: Shared norms for the new reality: the Nordic way. World economic forum Davos, Stockholm, pp 13–27. http://www.globalutmaning.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Davos...
A. (2010). The paradox of gender equality: An entrepreneurial case study from Sweden. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2(1), 10–26. Article Google Scholar Braidford, P., Stone, I., & Tesfaye, B. (2013). Gender, disadvantage and enterprise support - lessons from ...
Oinas argues that contemporary girlhoods are constituted and regulated in the context of a Nordic paradox of post-feminist idealization of achieved gender equality, combined with a blindness regarding, and denial of, on-going conservative forces....