 Being a Woman and Doing Gender in SwedenAnita Nyberg Chapter 7 in A Journey into Women’s Studies, 2014, pp 125-145 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Structural factors are greatly significant for an individual’s life chances and possibilities for an academic career. Basic factors include when one is born, where one is born and who one’s parents are, factors over which no person has any influence (Kvist et al. 2012, p. 4). As far as the first two are concerned, I was lucky: I was born in Sweden in 1940. Already at that time, Sweden was a democratic and comparatively developed, industrialized and rich country, and a country which over time became even more developed, industrialized and rich, partly because Sweden had the economic advantage of not having participated in the Second World War. As far as my parents are concerned, I was not fortunate to the same extent, which is discussed below. Regarding the three factors mentioned above over which you have no control could be added whether you are born as a boy or a girl.1 Women’s possibility of becoming a professor is still smaller than men’s; only about 20 per cent of the professors in Sweden are women. Keywords: European Union; Gender Equality; Single Mother; Nordic Country; Academic Career (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-39574-0_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Gender, Development and Social Change from Palgrave Macmillan |
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