Preventing Sexual Harassment in Nordic Working Life: Contesting Concepts and Reimagining Research

Fredrik Bondestam () and Angelica Simonsson
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Fredrik Bondestam: Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Angelica Simonsson: Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden

Societies, 2025, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Gender-based violence and sexual harassment in the Nordic labor market prevails, despite decades of preventive work. The #Metoo movement has clearly challenged past and current notions of the Nordic countries as gender equal welfare states, but it also pointed at the inability of policy to overcome its own prerequisites. In this study, we analyze past research on sexual harassment in Nordic working life, especially targeting theoretical, methodological, and practical results and challenges. By taking this systematic Nordic research review as a point of departure, we also develop a framework to analyze and transgress existing boundaries of policy and research in several ways. By reimagining research practices, as well as neoliberal management protocols for prevention, we elaborate on ways forward through several analytical steps. Finally, we envisage a need to overcome an immanent paradox when performing social research, pointing towards a vision of critical research moving beyond contemporary research politics and policy.

Keywords: sexual harassment; prevention; Nordic region; working life; research review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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