What’s new?

Hazel Conley and I signed a contract with Edward Elgar. We will be editing a Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment, which features a great line-up of scholars across the globe, working on gender issues within public sector. We are very excited about this! More information to follow later on.

Anna Elomäki and I co-edited a Special Issue called “Feminist Perspectives on the Economy within Transforming Nordic Welfare States” for NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. There are several important contributions from Nordic and international scholars, on topics such as competitiveness policy, neoliberal care policy, platform economy, gender budgeting, gender equality rankings, governance structures and social reproductions.

Read all the contributions here!

 

TERVETULOA

Tasa-arvopolitiikan suunnanmuutoksia: Talouskriisistä tasa-arvon kriiseihin

JULKISTAMISTILAISUUTEEN

6.4.2020 klo 17.00-18.30 Tiedekulmaan

Miten talouskriisi vaikuttaa tasa-arvoon?  Muuttuuko tasa-arvo-oikeus kun politiikka muuttuu?

Onko sukupuolten palkkaeroa mahdollista haastaa sopimusjärjestelmän sisällä? Entä kansalaisaktivismin kautta? Tyytyvätkö julkisen sektorin naisalat ikuiseen palkkakuoppaansa?

Millaisia ovat sosiaali ja terveyspolitiikan sukupuolittavat käytännöt? Onko vanhuus tasa-arvoista?

Mitkä ovat suomalaisen tasa-arvopolitiikan uudet tuulet, sokeat pisteet ja haasteet?

Ohjelma

17.00-17.15

Kirjan esittely 

Johanna Kantola, Paula Koskinen Sandberg ja Hanna Ylöstalo

17.15-18.30

Paneeli

Tasa-arvopolitiikan suunta muuttui: Miten, miksi ja mitä nyt ja tulevaisuudessa? 

Jukka Maarianvaara (Tasa-arvovaltuutettu)

Kevät Nousiainen (Professori, emerita, Turun yliopisto)

Linda Pelkonen (YLE, toimittaja)

Saara-Sofia Siren (kok, kansanedustaja)

Nitin Sood (Fem-R ry. ja Miehet ry. perustajajäsen)

Puheenjohtaja Anna Elomäki (Tampereen yliopisto)

Kirja on ilmestunut maaliskuussa 2020. Lisää tietoa Gaudeamuksen sivuilta: https://www.gaudeamus.fi/tasaarvopolitiikka/

I took part in Mustread’s Unisex podcast, discussing the gender pay gap in Finland, together with Mustread’s Editor-in-Chief  Anne Moilainen and Ombudsman for Equality Jukka Maarianvaara. The podcast (in Finnish) is available without cost!

A while back, me and my co-authors Maria Törnroos and Roosa Kohvakka received some exciting news. Our article “The Institutionalised Undervaluation of Women’s Work”. published in Work, Employment and Society, was nominated for the 2019 SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence.

The SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence is awarded annually to one paper in each of the BSA’s prestigious journals: Cultural Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Sociology and Work, Employment and Society. The prize will be awarded to the paper published in the previous year’s volume judged to represent innovation or excellence in the field.

I’m particularly proud of this achievement since this article can be considered my early work. The data was collected years before I started to do my PhD, in an action research project in which I worked for three years. The idea initiated during that time based on what I observed in case organizations. I decided to write an article about the topic during my second year of PhD studies. I persuaded Roosa to join the project and later on, Maria. This is indeed a major accomplishment for Finnish junior scholars and one co-author who actually works as a consultant. Well done, all of us!