The target group for Normstorm’s pedagogy are primarily youths in lower secondary and upper secondary school and the project is carried out in a school context. Parts of the project have also been performed by students from a Folk High School. The pictures...
Prior to the 2014–2015 school year, Järvenskolan Tallås had all the traits of a typical Swedish lower-secondary school. The environment in both hallways and classrooms was anything but peaceful, and many pupils felt uncomfortable as they had to endure verbal and...
Successful gender mainstreaming – what does it take? There are plenty of traps to fall into and what’s most important is to begin by formulating the problem. What does the gender inequality look like? According to the report Forskning saknas [‘Lack of...
The Swedish Performing Arts Agency is a government agency. Its mission is to promote a wide range musical offering throughout the country, and to preserve and bring to life theatre, dance and music heritage. This mission also includes funding collaborative projects...
The Prison and Probation Service is a government agency and part of the Swedish legal system. Its main tasks are to implement prison and probation sentences, to supervise conditionally released persons, to implement instructions for community service, and to carry out...
Welcome to the Diversity Lab Blog We start March 8, on the International Women's Day, to publicize our call Diversity Lab - norm critical innovation. This started in the spring of 2014 and has had two calls so far. With the help of the blog, we want to convey our...
The district health care centre in Hässelby in the western part of Stockholm has 72 employees who handle 24 000 patients a year. Five years ago, the head of the centre, Erik Lucht, attended Stockholm County Council’s gender equality course for management staff, led...
‘The report is very interesting, and gives us a hint of what we need to look at more closely,’ comments Lillemor Thorsén, head of operations. ‘What does getting more service inputs mean? What does it mean that women with major care needs don’t apply for service...
A training four years ago arranged by the Sörmland County Council led to a 6-month pilot project. ‘We realised that our services promoted gender segregation. We had weaving and sewing groups and computer groups,’ says Fridell. ‘Males received more funding than...
Several serious fires in recent years have affected mainly people with non-Swedish backgrounds. Women in particular have suffered. Swedish fire and rescue services are facing the important challenge of maintaining and developing the trust of all the different groups in...
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