Promoting Gender Equality without a Gender Perspective: Problem Representations of Equal Pay in <scp>F</scp>inland

Saari, Milja

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2011.00554.x

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“…This often becomes gender blindness. Milja Saari (2013) has analyzed how local trade union representatives construct the problem of unequal pay. She found that not only was the wage-bargaining culture gender neutral, but gender neutrality was also regarded as a value in itself.…”

Section: Tensions In Gender Mainstreamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational perspective to gender mainstreaming in the Finnish state administration

Ylöstalo

2016

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Gender mainstreaming has been celebrated as a new policy strategy for change in gender relations. However, its transformative potential seems to be lost in the process of implementation. The aim of this article is to evaluate the policy effectiveness of gender mainstreaming and its ability to bring about change in gendered social structures and practices. Previous research has focused on gender mainstreaming as a policy strategy. This article provides a new perspective on the problems of implementation by approaching gender mainstreaming from an organizational perspective. Gender mainstreaming takes place in certain organizational contexts, implemented by local actors. This article reveals the practices of implementation in the Finnish state administration, specifically in the Ministry of Defence. The analysis is based on a discursive reading of thirteen group and individual interviews collected in the Ministry of Defence in 2012. The article pinpoints two interlinking problems concerning implementation of gender mainstreaming on the organizational level. First, the state officials, who should implement gender mainstreaming, do not have enough information to do so successfully. Second, there is resistance toward gender mainstreaming on the organizational level. This article suggests that negotiations about gender, gender equality and gender mainstreaming as complex issues concerned with social power relations should be included in the process of implementing gender mainstreaming.

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Section: Tensions In Gender Mainstreamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational perspective to gender mainstreaming in the Finnish state administration

Ylöstalo

2016

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…Given that women are more likely to be low paid (Saari 2013;Warren, 2003), we see a higher proportion of women being excluded (Meyer, 2014). However, even for those enrolled there are concerns that the value of the pension will not to deliver sustainable retirement incomes (PWC, 2012;Uren 2013).…”

Section: Gender Blindness and Auto-enrolmentmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Since then there have been excellent analyses and critiques of discrimination and policy (Ainsworth et al 2010;Colley, 2003Colley, , 2013Duncan and Loretto 2004;Woodward and Winter, 2006), much of which has been published in Gender Work and Organization and by advocacy groups (such as the Fawcett Society 2007;Working Families, 2010). We have also seen the proliferation of impressive work addressing gender blindness in organization studies (Benokraitis and Feagin, 1995;Husu, 2001;Kantola, 2006Kantola, , 2008Lindvert, 2002;Saari, 2013;) that keep women in disadvantaged positions, and also critiques of how various pension policy reforms have impacted on women disproportionately (Fredericks, 2007;Green, 2005;Leitner, 2001;Loretto and Vickerstaff, 2013;Marier, 2007: Peinado, 2014Sefton et al, 2011;Vara, 2013).…”

Section: Exploring Gender Blindness and Heteropatriarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This leads to gender blindness within the system. Gender blindness occurs when the differences between men and women are not acknowledged to exist, and thus a male norm predominates (Elson, 1991(Elson, , 1993Kantola, 2005Kantola, , 2008Smithson and Stokoe, 2005;Lewis, 2006;Saari, 2013). When combined with the dominance of heteropatriarchal experience in shaping welfare and workplace structures, the impact of gender blindness is exacerbated.…”

Section: Exploring Gender Blindness and Heteropatriarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendering Pensions: Making Women Visible

Grady¹

2015

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper argues that the UK Pension System is gender blind and is structured around a heteropatriarchal experience. It does so by analyzing two key pieces of UK pension policy; the New Flat Rate State Pension, and Auto-Enrolment. Since the 1980s the value of the British State Pension has fallen, and is now worth half of that which it was in 1979 (Ginn and MacIntyre, 2013). This presents a particular disadvantage for women who not only tend to be lower paid, but because of a gendered occupational life course, they also tend to work parttime hours, and thus also fail to work the number of qualifying years for the full state pension. Traditionally, this results in a pension penalty for women. It is argued that the New Flat Rate State Pension and Auto-Enrolment will counteract this disadvantage, and political discourses used by policy makers claim that they will also create a fairer society.The argument presented here seeks to demonstrate that this claim is problematic by exposing how i) gender blindness prevents gender equality in pension provision delivery, and also ii) how the formulation of these policies are actually reinforced by a heteropatriarchal welfare system, which fundamentally undermines the contribution made by women to the economy.

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“…For example, in Finland, the idea of equality is included in the Constitution (731/1999), where equality of the sexes is said to be "promoted in societal activity and working life, especially in the determination of pay and the other terms of employment, as provided in more detail by an Act." However, although Finland, like other Nordic countries, is regarded as one of the most gender-equal countries in the world there are still very strong gender equality problems in the Nordic country, especially in relation to gender pay gap, amongst others (Saari, 2011).…”

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Interculturality in a different light: Modesty towards democracy in education?

Li¹,

Dervin²

2018

ICE

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This article problematizes interculturality in relation to how the notion of democracy is constructed, especially in education. Discourses of democracy have become more central in "interculturalspeak" (a somewhat uncritical approach to intercultural matters), especially after the mass arrival of asylum seekers and the spread of terrorism around the world. The authors challenge the often Western-centric considerations of the Other's democracy, through a close reading of a Chinese textbook. China seems to represent the Other par excellence when democracy is discussed. The article does not decide "subjectively" which country is better than others at "doing" democracy, especially in education. Neither do the authors wish to accuse anyone of "doing" it wrongly. What is demonstrated is that the topic of "democracy" is indeed found in China's secondary school textbooks. The following questions are asked: Which topics are covered? How is democracy problematized explicitly/implicitly? What potential similarities are to be found with the "Western" understanding of democracy? This rare insight into discourses of democracy (the changing self; relations between self-other; citizenship, rights, duties in the textbooks) from China proposes to rethink how we see self-other in intercultural terms, to develop more intercultural modesty and to learn with each other rather than against or merely from the other.

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Promoting Gender Equality without a Gender Perspective: Problem Representations of Equal Pay in Finland

Cited by 30 publications

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Organizational perspective to gender mainstreaming in the Finnish state administration

Organizational perspective to gender mainstreaming in the Finnish state administration

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