Work, health, and illness among women and men during five decades. This project focuses on how social and structural causes (e.g., labour market transformations and shifting work content) are related to – and possibly created – the gender gap in sickness absence.

School is a context of central importance in young people's lives, and also an environment that can contribute to shaping behaviour.

In this 3-year project, we advance research by focusing heterogeneity in career effects of parenthood, as we believe it can give us valuable clues to unveiling the underlying mechanisms of gender inequality.

The main aim of NORDICORE is to create knowledge that will further advance gender balance and diversity in research and innovation. The research design uses mixed methods and data are acquired from a wide range of sources. Thus, it allows to pinpoint specific mechanisms behind gender inequalities.

In this project, we investigate how the flexibilization of working life shapes the maneuvering space of women (and men) in work and family and how this, in turn, contributes to gender and class inequality in wages and (un)health

Challenges and opportunities in female-dominated occupations. This program aims to enhance our understanding of why women still fall behind men in terms of wages, careers, health and social recognition. What extent inequalities can be attributed to the fact that women tend to work in female dominated occupations and in “people-oriented jobs”?

The aim of this research programme is to study how social, economic, and health-related inequalities in the parental generation re-emerge in subsequent generations as well as the extent to which siblings and friends may explain or break this reproduction.

This research program examines cohesion and exclusion in working life in the wake of long-term structural change. As labor markets are transformed by rising skill requirements and service sector expansion, the conditions and opportunities of both traditionally marginal groups and formerly established worker categories may change considerably.