Women's equality in the Scandinavian academy: A distant dream?

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 296-313

  Seierstad, Cathrine ^a   Healy, Geraldine ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academia; gender equality; inequality regimes; Scandinavia; sex discrimination; universities; vertical segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860431640     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017011432918     Document Type: Article

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