Britt‐inger Keisu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4861073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Britt‐inger Keisu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Britt‐inger |
| FAMILY NAME | Keisu |
| SIGNATURE | KEISU B I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9627-4625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does gender matter? The impact of gender and gender match on the relation between destructive leadership and follower outcomes
Our study contributes to destructive leadership research by showing that the gender of both the leader and follower matters for the relation between destructive leadership behavior and follower outcomes. Additionally, our study makes a theoretical contribution by integrating a gender research perspective into destructive leadership research
Intersectional Gender Equality Challenges – A Review of Gender Equality Research Conducted in Fennoscandian Arctic Academia
Context-specific GE knowledge is essential for epistemic contribution, nuanced understanding, and practical GE work in the Arctic HEIs. However, there is a shortage of research regarding gender equality (GE) in these institutions. We explored GE in HEI, and conducted a review on the Scopus database focusing on GE research done in the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The aim is to explore the produced GE research in an HEI context c…
A complex problem with a one-sided solution? Exploring a Swedish municipality’s work with gender-based grade differences
This paper draws on interviews to problematize perceptions among principals and civil servants within a local collaboration aiming to reduce the gender gap in academic results (or ‘grades'). Inspired by the ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, five problem representations about boys’ lower grades are constructed: The problem of gender norms; The problem of teaching; The problem of the students’ background; The problem of the (grading…
Development and validation of the InEquality in organisations Scale (InE-S): A measure based on Acker’s inequality regimes
Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a scale that can be used to assess inequality at work based on gender, age and ethnicity that is grounded in Acker’s (2006) inequality regimes. Design/methodology/approach The authors used three representative samples (total N = 1,806) of Swedish teachers, nurses and social workers to develop and validate the scale. The validation process included the assessment of content validity, confirmatory fa…
Postfeminism as Coping Strategy: Understandings of Gender and Intragroup Conflict among Swedish Welfare Workers
This paper explores how workers in the women-dominated public sectorin Sweden speak about and make sense of gender and intragroup conflictand the consequences of this way of thinking and acting for genderequality at work. Using qualitative interviews with 26 first-level managersand employees, we introduce an analytical framework that employs criticaldiscourse psychology and the conceptualization of a postfeministsensibility at work. We identified…
Gendered Norms at Work: New Perspectives on Work Environment and Health
Tornedalingar om minoritetsskap: Ras och platsens betydelse för dekoloniala motståndspraktiker i majoritetssamhället
This article is based on an interview study with young and adult Tornedalians, a relatively unknown minority group in the northern part of Sweden. It scrutinizes the informants experiences of identifying with, and navigating within, a minority position in relation to the majority society’s discursive ideas and conceptions about them as national minority group. Through decolonial perspectives focusing on race and place, the analysis illuminates ho…
Administrators or Critical Cynics? A Study of Gender Equality Workers in Swedish Higher Education
Gender equality workers have to perform a balancing act between feminist ideals for change and neo-liberal management trends. So-called audit discourses have gradually been introduced into Swedish universities, in line with an enterprise model. In this new context, the aim of our article is to investigate how gender equality workers at universities articulate gender equality and possibilities for change. What are their visions and strategies for …
Constructions of innovation and gender (equality) in Swedish universities
Purpose This paper utilizes the concept of innovation as a form of methodological starting-point in order to analyse the gendered meanings of marketization in Swedish universities. The purpose of the paper is to scrutinize how the concept of innovation is produced in Swedish universities, and how these versions of innovation are gendered and related to different understandings of gender equality
Kraftfulla bett eller tandlösa råd: Om två svenska lärosätens arbete med jämställdhet samt etnisk och social mångfald
Academic institutions are expected to design and undertake equality work within their organizations. A common way of organizing this work is through committees with a consultative mandate in relation to the university principal and management board. The purpose of this article is to analyse meeting protocols from gender equality committees as well as from social and ethnic equality committees and to address, from a gender and organizational theor…
Administrators or Critical Cynics? A Study of Gender Equality Workers in Swedish Higher Education
Gender equality workers have to perform a balancing act between feminist ideals for change and neo-liberal management trends. So-called audit discourses have gradually been introduced into Swedish universities, in line with an enterprise model. In this new context, the aim of our article is to investigate how gender equality workers at universities articulate gender equality and possibilities for change. What are their visions and strategies for …
Constructions of innovation and gender (equality) in Swedish universities
Purpose This paper utilizes the concept of innovation as a form of methodological starting-point in order to analyse the gendered meanings of marketization in Swedish universities. The purpose of the paper is to scrutinize how the concept of innovation is produced in Swedish universities, and how these versions of innovation are gendered and related to different understandings of gender equality
Postfeminism as Coping Strategy: Understandings of Gender and Intragroup Conflict among Swedish Welfare Workers
This paper explores how workers in the women-dominated public sectorin Sweden speak about and make sense of gender and intragroup conflictand the consequences of this way of thinking and acting for genderequality at work. Using qualitative interviews with 26 first-level managersand employees, we introduce an analytical framework that employs criticaldiscourse psychology and the conceptualization of a postfeministsensibility at work. We identified…
Kraftfulla bett eller tandlösa råd: Om två svenska lärosätens arbete med jämställdhet samt etnisk och social mångfald
Academic institutions are expected to design and undertake equality work within their organizations. A common way of organizing this work is through committees with a consultative mandate in relation to the university principal and management board. The purpose of this article is to analyse meeting protocols from gender equality committees as well as from social and ethnic equality committees and to address, from a gender and organizational theor…
Development and validation of the InEquality in organisations Scale (InE-S): A measure based on Acker’s inequality regimes
Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a scale that can be used to assess inequality at work based on gender, age and ethnicity that is grounded in Acker’s (2006) inequality regimes. Design/methodology/approach The authors used three representative samples (total N = 1,806) of Swedish teachers, nurses and social workers to develop and validate the scale. The validation process included the assessment of content validity, confirmatory fa…
Kraftfulla bett eller tandlösa råd: Om två svenska lärosätens arbete med jämställdhet samt etnisk och social mångfald
Academic institutions are expected to design and undertake equality work within their organizations. A common way of organizing this work is through committees with a consultative mandate in relation to the university principal and management board. The purpose of this article is to analyse meeting protocols from gender equality committees as well as from social and ethnic equality committees and to address, from a gender and organizational theor…
Constructions of innovation and gender (equality) in Swedish universities
Purpose This paper utilizes the concept of innovation as a form of methodological starting-point in order to analyse the gendered meanings of marketization in Swedish universities. The purpose of the paper is to scrutinize how the concept of innovation is produced in Swedish universities, and how these versions of innovation are gendered and related to different understandings of gender equality
Administrators or Critical Cynics? A Study of Gender Equality Workers in Swedish Higher Education
Gender equality workers have to perform a balancing act between feminist ideals for change and neo-liberal management trends. So-called audit discourses have gradually been introduced into Swedish universities, in line with an enterprise model. In this new context, the aim of our article is to investigate how gender equality workers at universities articulate gender equality and possibilities for change. What are their visions and strategies for …
Gendered Norms at Work: New Perspectives on Work Environment and Health
Tornedalingar om minoritetsskap: Ras och platsens betydelse för dekoloniala motståndspraktiker i majoritetssamhället
This article is based on an interview study with young and adult Tornedalians, a relatively unknown minority group in the northern part of Sweden. It scrutinizes the informants experiences of identifying with, and navigating within, a minority position in relation to the majority society’s discursive ideas and conceptions about them as national minority group. Through decolonial perspectives focusing on race and place, the analysis illuminates ho…
Postfeminism as Coping Strategy: Understandings of Gender and Intragroup Conflict among Swedish Welfare Workers
This paper explores how workers in the women-dominated public sectorin Sweden speak about and make sense of gender and intragroup conflictand the consequences of this way of thinking and acting for genderequality at work. Using qualitative interviews with 26 first-level managersand employees, we introduce an analytical framework that employs criticaldiscourse psychology and the conceptualization of a postfeministsensibility at work. We identified…
Development and validation of the InEquality in organisations Scale (InE-S): A measure based on Acker’s inequality regimes
Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a scale that can be used to assess inequality at work based on gender, age and ethnicity that is grounded in Acker’s (2006) inequality regimes. Design/methodology/approach The authors used three representative samples (total N = 1,806) of Swedish teachers, nurses and social workers to develop and validate the scale. The validation process included the assessment of content validity, confirmatory fa…
Does gender matter? The impact of gender and gender match on the relation between destructive leadership and follower outcomes
Our study contributes to destructive leadership research by showing that the gender of both the leader and follower matters for the relation between destructive leadership behavior and follower outcomes. Additionally, our study makes a theoretical contribution by integrating a gender research perspective into destructive leadership research
Intersectional Gender Equality Challenges – A Review of Gender Equality Research Conducted in Fennoscandian Arctic Academia
Context-specific GE knowledge is essential for epistemic contribution, nuanced understanding, and practical GE work in the Arctic HEIs. However, there is a shortage of research regarding gender equality (GE) in these institutions. We explored GE in HEI, and conducted a review on the Scopus database focusing on GE research done in the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The aim is to explore the produced GE research in an HEI context c…
A complex problem with a one-sided solution? Exploring a Swedish municipality’s work with gender-based grade differences
This paper draws on interviews to problematize perceptions among principals and civil servants within a local collaboration aiming to reduce the gender gap in academic results (or ‘grades'). Inspired by the ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, five problem representations about boys’ lower grades are constructed: The problem of gender norms; The problem of teaching; The problem of the students’ background; The problem of the (grading…
Gender Diversity and Inequality (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender equality (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)