Elin Kvande
Biographic Data
| ID | 250702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elin Kvande |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kvande |
| SIGNATURE | KVANDE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8685-9232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 492 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Individual Parental Leave for Fathers
This chapter takes as its point of departure the design elements of the Norwegian parental leave system for fathers and examines how it works as a regulatory measure to promote equality in care work. The findings show that the design of the father’s quota as a statutory, earmarked, and non-transferrable right for fathers promotes the fathers’ use of leave and hence equality. The earmarking, and the fact that it cannot be transferred to the mother…
Polish migrant fathers using parental leave in Norway
Objective: This article explores how the Norwegian care regime impacts Polish migrant fathers' caring practices. Background: The present study illustrates the importance of context sensitive research when describing the consequences of migration from migratory-source countries in Eastern Europe. When a father’s labor migration takes place in an institutional context with a care regime which includes earmarked parental leave rights for fathers, it…
Designing Parental Leave Policy
Many of the Nordic countries have designed parental leave policies in ways that can promote participation of fathers in child care. Norway was the first country to introduce a father-specific leave quota in 1993. This quota is non-transferable and generously paid, and Norway has functioned as a sort of laboratory for testing such radical policies. This book is a collection of research publications from three studies conducted at various stages si…
Designing Parental Leave Policy
Nordic countries lead the way in facilitating better work-family integration through their design of parental leave policies that encourage men towards life courses with greater care responsibilities. Based on original research, this compelling book offers a novel analysis of the everyday parental practices of fathers and parents in Norway as a way of understanding the workings of labour market and welfare policies, whilst considering how migrant…
Designing parental leave for fathers – promoting gender equality in working life
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Norwegian parental leave policy for fathers, the father’s quota, which has reached a mature age of 26 years, asking how gender equality has been affected in working life. Design/methodology/approach Based on interviews with 28 fathers who have used the father’s quota, the paper analyzes the connection between leave design, its use and impacts by using the design elements of individualization, ge…
Father's Use of Parental Leave in Organizations with Different Institutional Logics
Although the use of the father's quota of parental leave has become a majority practice among Norwegian fathers, there is some variation between different groups of fathers. This article explores how male managers in the engineering industry and male brokers in the finance industry use the father's quota. Based on the theoretical framework of institutional logics, the article uses two pairs of opposite concepts-'available and unavailable' and 're…
Fathers' sense of entitlement to ear-marked and shared parental leave
In most countries, parental leave systems consist of several parts with different lengths for fathers and/or mothers. This article compares fathers' sense of entitlement to two parts of the Norwegian parental leave system that are available to them, namely the individual, non-transferable father's quota and the shared parental leave. The objective is to gain knowledge of the rationale for fathers' different take-up of the two types of leave. Anal…
Workplace support of fathers' parental leave use in Norway
This article highlights the importance of social policy and working life contexts for employed fathers' use of parental leave. It directs attention towards the Norwegian model, which is known for its gender equality aims and welfare-state support to families, but which is also active in the regulation of working life. Based on interviews with fathers who have used the father's quota (a statutory, earmarked, non-transferable leave), findings run c…
Den norske samarbeidsmodellen
Masculinity and Fathering Alone during Parental Leave
Based on interviews with fathers who stay home alone on parental leave in Norway, this article explores how the masculine identities of employed fathers may be affected by caring. Research on changing masculinities has been concerned with the reworking of men's gender identities into caring ones, and this article aims to add empirical knowledge on ways that parental leave for fathers may contribute to undoing gender. Findings support a developmen…
Work–Family Dynamics
Individualized, non-transferable parental leave for European fathers
Parental leave, with a special quota for fathers as its hallmark, is a welfare-state contribution in Norway aimed at mobilizing fathers as carers. Research has documented that individualized, non-transferable parental leave is effective for promoting more gender equal fathering practices in caring and employment. Studies have not, however, explored the processes of constructing these outcomes. We have investigated this issue by means of interview…
Fathers and flexible parental leave
Research on work-family balance has seen flexible work arrangements as a key solution for reconciling work and family, but it has given contradictory results in regard to fathers. This article focuses on flexible parental leave for fathers in Norway, which until now has rarely been studied. Based on interviews with 20 fathers, the article explores their experiences with flexible organization of the leave, which provides them with a menu of choice…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to…
Helene Aarseth
The rise and fall of cash for care in Norway
The cash-for-care scheme was introduced in 1998 in Norway. During the first period after its introduction, the percentage of users was high at 91 per cent. Since 2005, however, the use has decreased substantially year by year. Thus, the use of cash for care has changed over the 15 years it has existed. In this article we take these changes as our point of departure and analyse more closely what we might call ‘the rise and fall of the cash-for-car…
Gender and the production of elites in the Nordic countries
Purpose The paper criticizes current directions in research on women and management. The purpose of this paper is to propose new directions for such research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual and is based on a review of recent literature on elites and the gendering of elite positions internationally and in the Nordic countries. This literature is discussed using studies of changing power dynamics and the development of welfare …
Gendered or Gender-Neutral Care Politics for Fathers
This article analyzes how two different policy measures affect gender equality in child care. In the 1990s, Norway introduced two care policies reflecting different ideas about gender and family life. The fathers' quota policy supports the dual-earner family model while the cash-for-care scheme is based on a family model, providing cash benefits irrespective of the parent's work activities. The father's quota is a gendered policy because six week…
Work–Life Balance for Fathers in Globalized Knowledge Work. Some Insights from the Norwegian Context
This article takes as its point of departure the introduction of a new flexible time regime in parts of working life. There has been increased focus on how knowledge work in particular is developing into total commitment organizations where employees put in more and more time at work. Using two case studies from law and computing companies the article focuses on the organization of work and the organization of time in globalized knowledge organiz…
Fathers, Work and Family Life
This paper presents a policy analysis of fathers' use of paternity leave, parental leave and flexible work practices across several industrialised countries. From the late 1990s there has been a rapid expansion of leave and flexible working provision targeted at fathers, especially in the Nordic countries. New evidence on predictors and patterns of fathers' leave taking are reviewed. Findings suggest that paternal leave taking has the potential t…
Fedres valgfrihet og arbeidslivets tidskulturer
Reflexive Fathers
The emergence of parental leave schemes has been the most important area of expansion for the Norwegian welfare state in the 1990s. Schemes have been extended, and special rights have been granted to fathers. The main underpinning of this strategy is the intention to bolster the fathers’ contact with and care for their children. Another objective is to share the benefits and burdens of working life and family life between men and women. In this a…
Doing masculinities in organizational restructuring
This article addresses how different masculinities are constructed in a female-dominated work organization in the public sector. The context is a restructuring process that is based on decentralization of responsibility and centralization of power. The first process addressed is labelled "Escaping from the body", which implies that the male nurses in the organization move away from the nursing and care aspects of the job. New management positions…
Flexible Work and Flexible Fathers
The expansion of the parental leave scheme in Norway, which now grants extensive rights to employed fathers, has occured in a period of great changes in working life. The equality politics of the welfare state have been explicitly focussed on bringing reproduction more into the open in working life by allowing mothers and fathers the right to stay at home on leave when they have children. To have working life adapt to family life is, however, in …
In the Belly of the Beast
This article explores how female graduate engineers construct femininities in male-dominated organizations. By applying a dynamic relational understanding of gender it is argued that different versions of femininities are constructed through associations to sameness and difference. The graduate engineering profession is closely connected to hegemonic masculinity, not least by the strong representation of technology and a management system itself …
Flexible Work and Flexible Fathers
The expansion of the parental leave scheme in Norway, which now grants extensive rights to employed fathers, has occured in a period of great changes in working life. The equality politics of the welfare state have been explicitly focussed on bringing reproduction more into the open in working life by allowing mothers and fathers the right to stay at home on leave when they have children. To have working life adapt to family life is, however, in …
Masculinity and Child Care
In this article we focus on a group of fathers who use parental leave and how they include care-giving in their construction of masculinity. The fathers shape their own masculine form of care-work differently from the mothers' interaction with the child. Both mothers and fathers, however, take part in the process of reproducing masculinity as the norm by giving masculine care higher status. Care-giving activities are adopted by the hegemonic form…
Reflexive Fathers
The emergence of parental leave schemes has been the most important area of expansion for the Norwegian welfare state in the 1990s. Schemes have been extended, and special rights have been granted to fathers. The main underpinning of this strategy is the intention to bolster the fathers’ contact with and care for their children. Another objective is to share the benefits and burdens of working life and family life between men and women. In this a…
Fathers, Work and Family Life
This paper presents a policy analysis of fathers' use of paternity leave, parental leave and flexible work practices across several industrialised countries. From the late 1990s there has been a rapid expansion of leave and flexible working provision targeted at fathers, especially in the Nordic countries. New evidence on predictors and patterns of fathers' leave taking are reviewed. Findings suggest that paternal leave taking has the potential t…
Gendered or Gender-Neutral Care Politics for Fathers
This article analyzes how two different policy measures affect gender equality in child care. In the 1990s, Norway introduced two care policies reflecting different ideas about gender and family life. The fathers' quota policy supports the dual-earner family model while the cash-for-care scheme is based on a family model, providing cash benefits irrespective of the parent's work activities. The father's quota is a gendered policy because six week…
Masculinity and Fathering Alone during Parental Leave
Based on interviews with fathers who stay home alone on parental leave in Norway, this article explores how the masculine identities of employed fathers may be affected by caring. Research on changing masculinities has been concerned with the reworking of men's gender identities into caring ones, and this article aims to add empirical knowledge on ways that parental leave for fathers may contribute to undoing gender. Findings support a developmen…
Fathers and flexible parental leave
Research on work-family balance has seen flexible work arrangements as a key solution for reconciling work and family, but it has given contradictory results in regard to fathers. This article focuses on flexible parental leave for fathers in Norway, which until now has rarely been studied. Based on interviews with 20 fathers, the article explores their experiences with flexible organization of the leave, which provides them with a menu of choice…
Workplace support of fathers' parental leave use in Norway
This article highlights the importance of social policy and working life contexts for employed fathers' use of parental leave. It directs attention towards the Norwegian model, which is known for its gender equality aims and welfare-state support to families, but which is also active in the regulation of working life. Based on interviews with fathers who have used the father's quota (a statutory, earmarked, non-transferable leave), findings run c…
In the Belly of the Beast
This article explores how female graduate engineers construct femininities in male-dominated organizations. By applying a dynamic relational understanding of gender it is argued that different versions of femininities are constructed through associations to sameness and difference. The graduate engineering profession is closely connected to hegemonic masculinity, not least by the strong representation of technology and a management system itself …
Work–Life Balance for Fathers in Globalized Knowledge Work. Some Insights from the Norwegian Context
This article takes as its point of departure the introduction of a new flexible time regime in parts of working life. There has been increased focus on how knowledge work in particular is developing into total commitment organizations where employees put in more and more time at work. Using two case studies from law and computing companies the article focuses on the organization of work and the organization of time in globalized knowledge organiz…
The rise and fall of cash for care in Norway
The cash-for-care scheme was introduced in 1998 in Norway. During the first period after its introduction, the percentage of users was high at 91 per cent. Since 2005, however, the use has decreased substantially year by year. Thus, the use of cash for care has changed over the 15 years it has existed. In this article we take these changes as our point of departure and analyse more closely what we might call ‘the rise and fall of the cash-for-car…
Doing masculinities in organizational restructuring
This article addresses how different masculinities are constructed in a female-dominated work organization in the public sector. The context is a restructuring process that is based on decentralization of responsibility and centralization of power. The first process addressed is labelled "Escaping from the body", which implies that the male nurses in the organization move away from the nursing and care aspects of the job. New management positions…
Fathers' sense of entitlement to ear-marked and shared parental leave
In most countries, parental leave systems consist of several parts with different lengths for fathers and/or mothers. This article compares fathers' sense of entitlement to two parts of the Norwegian parental leave system that are available to them, namely the individual, non-transferable father's quota and the shared parental leave. The objective is to gain knowledge of the rationale for fathers' different take-up of the two types of leave. Anal…
Individualized, non-transferable parental leave for European fathers
Parental leave, with a special quota for fathers as its hallmark, is a welfare-state contribution in Norway aimed at mobilizing fathers as carers. Research has documented that individualized, non-transferable parental leave is effective for promoting more gender equal fathering practices in caring and employment. Studies have not, however, explored the processes of constructing these outcomes. We have investigated this issue by means of interview…
Women's Careers in Static and Dynamic Organizations
This article presents a study of women graduate engineers entering male-dominated organizations and management positions. The individual perspective used in most of the previous studies in the Women in Management tradition is criticized and a structural approach to gender and organization is developed. The main data come from case studies in six large Norwegian companies where pairs of comparable male and female graduate engineers were selected. …
Fedres valgfrihet og arbeidslivets tidskulturer
Designing parental leave for fathers – promoting gender equality in working life
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Norwegian parental leave policy for fathers, the father’s quota, which has reached a mature age of 26 years, asking how gender equality has been affected in working life. Design/methodology/approach Based on interviews with 28 fathers who have used the father’s quota, the paper analyzes the connection between leave design, its use and impacts by using the design elements of individualization, ge…
Father's Use of Parental Leave in Organizations with Different Institutional Logics
Although the use of the father's quota of parental leave has become a majority practice among Norwegian fathers, there is some variation between different groups of fathers. This article explores how male managers in the engineering industry and male brokers in the finance industry use the father's quota. Based on the theoretical framework of institutional logics, the article uses two pairs of opposite concepts-'available and unavailable' and 're…
Gender and the production of elites in the Nordic countries
Purpose The paper criticizes current directions in research on women and management. The purpose of this paper is to propose new directions for such research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual and is based on a review of recent literature on elites and the gendering of elite positions internationally and in the Nordic countries. This literature is discussed using studies of changing power dynamics and the development of welfare …
Organisationen en arena för olika uttryck av kvinnlighet och manlighet
När kvinnliga civilingenjörer kommer in i en organisation startar en könsstrukturerande process. I statiska hierarkier finns skeptiska men samtidigt beskyddande kavaljerer samt konkurrenter som känner sig hotade av kvinnorna. Kamrater och framgångsrika kometer finner sig tillrätta i dynamiska nätverk där både kvinnor och män kan få makt och inflytande
Anpassning och protest
Kvinnliga teknologer stårför andra värderingar än männen till arbete och studier. De understryker yrkets samhällsnytta och ser arbetets kvalitet som viktigare än hög lön och status. Kvinnorna uttrycker en protest mot samhällets tekniska rationalitet, menar Elin Kvande i denna artikel om norska kvinnliga teknologer, som också tar upp kvinnomotståndets möjlighet att slå igenom i den manliga, tekniska miljön
Anpassning och protest
Kvinnliga teknologer stårför andra värderingar än männen till arbete och studier. De understryker yrkets samhällsnytta och ser arbetets kvalitet som viktigare än hög lön och status. Kvinnorna uttrycker en protest mot samhällets tekniska rationalitet, menar Elin Kvande i denna artikel om norska kvinnliga teknologer, som också tar upp kvinnomotståndets möjlighet att slå igenom i den manliga, tekniska miljön
Organisationen en arena för olika uttryck av kvinnlighet och manlighet
När kvinnliga civilingenjörer kommer in i en organisation startar en könsstrukturerande process. I statiska hierarkier finns skeptiska men samtidigt beskyddande kavaljerer samt konkurrenter som känner sig hotade av kvinnorna. Kamrater och framgångsrika kometer finner sig tillrätta i dynamiska nätverk där både kvinnor och män kan få makt och inflytande
Women's Careers in Static and Dynamic Organizations
This article presents a study of women graduate engineers entering male-dominated organizations and management positions. The individual perspective used in most of the previous studies in the Women in Management tradition is criticized and a structural approach to gender and organization is developed. The main data come from case studies in six large Norwegian companies where pairs of comparable male and female graduate engineers were selected. …
Masculinity and Child Care
In this article we focus on a group of fathers who use parental leave and how they include care-giving in their construction of masculinity. The fathers shape their own masculine form of care-work differently from the mothers' interaction with the child. Both mothers and fathers, however, take part in the process of reproducing masculinity as the norm by giving masculine care higher status. Care-giving activities are adopted by the hegemonic form…
In the Belly of the Beast
This article explores how female graduate engineers construct femininities in male-dominated organizations. By applying a dynamic relational understanding of gender it is argued that different versions of femininities are constructed through associations to sameness and difference. The graduate engineering profession is closely connected to hegemonic masculinity, not least by the strong representation of technology and a management system itself …
Flexible Work and Flexible Fathers
The expansion of the parental leave scheme in Norway, which now grants extensive rights to employed fathers, has occured in a period of great changes in working life. The equality politics of the welfare state have been explicitly focussed on bringing reproduction more into the open in working life by allowing mothers and fathers the right to stay at home on leave when they have children. To have working life adapt to family life is, however, in …
Reflexive Fathers
The emergence of parental leave schemes has been the most important area of expansion for the Norwegian welfare state in the 1990s. Schemes have been extended, and special rights have been granted to fathers. The main underpinning of this strategy is the intention to bolster the fathers’ contact with and care for their children. Another objective is to share the benefits and burdens of working life and family life between men and women. In this a…
Doing masculinities in organizational restructuring
This article addresses how different masculinities are constructed in a female-dominated work organization in the public sector. The context is a restructuring process that is based on decentralization of responsibility and centralization of power. The first process addressed is labelled "Escaping from the body", which implies that the male nurses in the organization move away from the nursing and care aspects of the job. New management positions…
Fedres valgfrihet og arbeidslivets tidskulturer
Fathers, Work and Family Life
This paper presents a policy analysis of fathers' use of paternity leave, parental leave and flexible work practices across several industrialised countries. From the late 1990s there has been a rapid expansion of leave and flexible working provision targeted at fathers, especially in the Nordic countries. New evidence on predictors and patterns of fathers' leave taking are reviewed. Findings suggest that paternal leave taking has the potential t…
Work–Life Balance for Fathers in Globalized Knowledge Work. Some Insights from the Norwegian Context
This article takes as its point of departure the introduction of a new flexible time regime in parts of working life. There has been increased focus on how knowledge work in particular is developing into total commitment organizations where employees put in more and more time at work. Using two case studies from law and computing companies the article focuses on the organization of work and the organization of time in globalized knowledge organiz…
Gendered or Gender-Neutral Care Politics for Fathers
This article analyzes how two different policy measures affect gender equality in child care. In the 1990s, Norway introduced two care policies reflecting different ideas about gender and family life. The fathers' quota policy supports the dual-earner family model while the cash-for-care scheme is based on a family model, providing cash benefits irrespective of the parent's work activities. The father's quota is a gendered policy because six week…
Gender and the production of elites in the Nordic countries
Purpose The paper criticizes current directions in research on women and management. The purpose of this paper is to propose new directions for such research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual and is based on a review of recent literature on elites and the gendering of elite positions internationally and in the Nordic countries. This literature is discussed using studies of changing power dynamics and the development of welfare …
Helene Aarseth
The rise and fall of cash for care in Norway
The cash-for-care scheme was introduced in 1998 in Norway. During the first period after its introduction, the percentage of users was high at 91 per cent. Since 2005, however, the use has decreased substantially year by year. Thus, the use of cash for care has changed over the 15 years it has existed. In this article we take these changes as our point of departure and analyse more closely what we might call ‘the rise and fall of the cash-for-car…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to…
Fathers and flexible parental leave
Research on work-family balance has seen flexible work arrangements as a key solution for reconciling work and family, but it has given contradictory results in regard to fathers. This article focuses on flexible parental leave for fathers in Norway, which until now has rarely been studied. Based on interviews with 20 fathers, the article explores their experiences with flexible organization of the leave, which provides them with a menu of choice…
Work–Family Dynamics
Individualized, non-transferable parental leave for European fathers
Parental leave, with a special quota for fathers as its hallmark, is a welfare-state contribution in Norway aimed at mobilizing fathers as carers. Research has documented that individualized, non-transferable parental leave is effective for promoting more gender equal fathering practices in caring and employment. Studies have not, however, explored the processes of constructing these outcomes. We have investigated this issue by means of interview…
Den norske samarbeidsmodellen
Masculinity and Fathering Alone during Parental Leave
Based on interviews with fathers who stay home alone on parental leave in Norway, this article explores how the masculine identities of employed fathers may be affected by caring. Research on changing masculinities has been concerned with the reworking of men's gender identities into caring ones, and this article aims to add empirical knowledge on ways that parental leave for fathers may contribute to undoing gender. Findings support a developmen…
Father's Use of Parental Leave in Organizations with Different Institutional Logics
Although the use of the father's quota of parental leave has become a majority practice among Norwegian fathers, there is some variation between different groups of fathers. This article explores how male managers in the engineering industry and male brokers in the finance industry use the father's quota. Based on the theoretical framework of institutional logics, the article uses two pairs of opposite concepts-'available and unavailable' and 're…
Fathers' sense of entitlement to ear-marked and shared parental leave
In most countries, parental leave systems consist of several parts with different lengths for fathers and/or mothers. This article compares fathers' sense of entitlement to two parts of the Norwegian parental leave system that are available to them, namely the individual, non-transferable father's quota and the shared parental leave. The objective is to gain knowledge of the rationale for fathers' different take-up of the two types of leave. Anal…
Workplace support of fathers' parental leave use in Norway
This article highlights the importance of social policy and working life contexts for employed fathers' use of parental leave. It directs attention towards the Norwegian model, which is known for its gender equality aims and welfare-state support to families, but which is also active in the regulation of working life. Based on interviews with fathers who have used the father's quota (a statutory, earmarked, non-transferable leave), findings run c…
Designing Parental Leave Policy
Many of the Nordic countries have designed parental leave policies in ways that can promote participation of fathers in child care. Norway was the first country to introduce a father-specific leave quota in 1993. This quota is non-transferable and generously paid, and Norway has functioned as a sort of laboratory for testing such radical policies. This book is a collection of research publications from three studies conducted at various stages si…
Political science (23 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (17 works) · Parental leave (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Engineering (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Work (physics (11 works)