Financial support from the Finnish Academy in 1990-1994. Nevertheless the wage gap between men and women is biggest in the Nordic countries.
Women also occupy lower employment positions than men.
Gendered distinctions and differences in working life are often produced by hidden practices. These questions are addressed in the two books written by the researchers of this project. The writings open up an interesting view on the concrete practices which produce gendered results. Gender is done symbolically and concretely in people's self-definitions, in official texts and in labour politics. The topics touched upon in the writings include everyday clerical work in public administration, home-based work, collective bargaining, statistical classifications, ways of using the concepts of flexibility and productivity in research, gender in the process of computerization, the process of comparable worth in Finland, sexual harassment as a process, attempts to reduce segregation in working life, reconciling work and family in work organizations, in enterpreneurship and in social politics.