Place, (In)Equality and Gender

• Main Author: Faber, Stine Thidemann (auth)
• Other Authors: Nielsen, Helene Pristed (auth), Bennike, Kathrine Bjerg (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Nordic Council of Ministers 2015
• Series: TemaNord
• Subjects: Globalization; children and young people; adult education; regional policy; welfare; research; labour and employment; gender equality; moving and commuting; globalisation; vocational training; higher education; upper secondary education; Åland Islands; Denmark; Faroe Islands; Finland; Greenland; Iceland; Nordic countries; Norway; Youth
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

This mapping presents a selected overview of existing research on gender, education and population flows in the Nordic peripheral areas. These areas are faced with a series of challenges that cannot be analyzed nor solved without taking a gender perspective into account. The challenges relate to, for instance, altered living conditions caused by global changes, stagnated or negative economic development, decrease in the amount of workplaces (particularly in the traditionally male-dominated professions) as well as, not least, migration and depopulation which is partly due to the fact that the young people of the area (especially the women) move to bigger cities to educate themselves. The challenges in question are not only significant in relation to the viability and cohesion of the areas, but also for the men and women who live there and their mutual social relations.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (194 p.)

ISBN

TN2015-558

Access

Open Access