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This article, which is in a quite provocative way published under the title “Are Women Asking for Low Wages? Gender Differences in Wage Bargaining Strategies and Ensuing Bargaining Success” has been revised in May 2007. It has been written by Jenny Säve-Söderbergh and shows that women are clearly less competitive when bargaining on their salaries and positions, which is one explanation of the gender gap….
Report published by the Swedish institute for Social Research, Universitetsvägen 10 E, Stockholm University, Sweden
After some hard science, we have here some practical realities, with this remarkable tool, the Ladder, that can be used by a lot of organization in order to promote equality in a simple way. This tool is a report realized by Gender Mainstreaming Support (JämStöd), a Swedish committee of inquiry that has worked for two years under a government mandate to provide information about gender mainstreaming and to develop practical methods and models for mainstreaming gender into central government activities.
A further task of the committee has been to train central government administrators in the practical implementation of the process. They have collaborated with a number of government agencies that have led the way in seeking to ensure that the services they provide to the general public benefit women and men equally.
Gender Mainstreaming Manual, A book of practical methods from the Swedish Gender Mainstreaming Support Committee, Stockholm 2007, (Ann Boman, Committee Chair /Ulrika Eklund, Carina Löfgren)
The foreword
This book contains our most tried and tested methods. We hope that it will inspire both those of you who want to start the ball rolling and those who wish to take JämStöd’s methods and models for gender mainstreaming a step further
