Links about equal opportunities

Equal opportunities at SLU

• Governing documents
• Equal opportunities - Staff webb
• Harassment and Equal treatment - Student web
• Facebook group: SLU for equal opportunities 
• Study with disabilities
• Teaching students with an impairment
• Practical information and advice for living and working in Sweden and at SLU

Doctoral theses and articles 

Conserving carbon and gender relations? Gender perspectives on REDD+ and global climate policy by Lisa Westholm, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU 
Link to the thesis: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/14518/

Doing Gender (in) Equality in Swedish Family Farming. Gendered labour and resources in agrarian change by Elias Andersson, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU
Link to the thesis: http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/11533/

Gender Equality and Meritocracy. Contradictory discourses in the academy by Stina Powell, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU
Link to the thesis: http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13077

Women’s cattle ownership in Botswana. Rebranding gender relations? byAndrea Petitt, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU
Link to the thesis:  http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13205/

#Metoo in the Swedish forest sector: testimonies from harassed women on sexualised forms of male control. Maria Johansson, Kristina Johansson and Elias Andersson. Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.

External links to web pages, blogs, videos and literature

Work environment and stress

• How Stress Affects the Brain (video clip)
• Work environment checklists from Prevent (in Swedish)

Equality and norms 

• Equalisters (Rättviseförmedlingen)
• The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queers Rights
• Implicit association test - find out your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other topics!
• Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included (TED talks, Michael Kimmel)
• Skbl.se, learn about 1000 important (and hidden) women in the Swedish history.
• Swedish secretariate for gender research.
• Nordic information about gender, Nikk.no.
• Gender mainstreaming in academia, a government request for all state-funded higher education institutions in Sweden to develop a gender mainstreaming plan 2016–2019
• Swedish Work Environment Authority's new provisions about organisational and social work environment, AFS 2015:4 
• Emma Watson's UN speech about gender equality

Reading tips!

• Women miss out on authorship opportunities early on (Science)
• Articles on workplace diversity (Science) 
• Gender equality: Taking stock of where we are. Why are women still underrepresented at every level of today’s corporations? 
• Having children affects doctoral students’ plans for the future
• Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape 
• Participate for Women's Sake? A Gender Analysis of a Swedish Collaborative Environmental Management Project
• How stereotypes impair women’s careers in science
• LGBTQ+ Travel Safety

You can find more links on the Swedish web page.