Two new Forte projects

In the first project Evaluating work of comparable worth. The use of job evaluation systems as promotors of gender equal salaries in the Swedish municipal sector Minna is the PI and during this project she will be working together with Anna Fogelberg Eriksson at Linköping University. They will examine the tools and processes that are involved in defining work of equal worth in connection with gender salary mappings in Swedish municipalities. The project will investigate job evaluation processes to find out to which extent these can be regarded as a gender equal tool that results in gender equal salaries. “This project will fill a gap in recent research on gender equality. Salaries for female and male dominated jobs still differ considerably, and we know little about how the legislation about gender equal salaries is handled in the organizational reality of a municipal employer’’, she says.

The second research project is a project conducted in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology where Åsa Cajander is PI. Åsa and Minna will together study the digital working environment of hospital nurses. This female dominated profession has increasingly adopted new IT tools in their work. The study investigates the effects of this digitalization for the nurses, and consequently, patients and their relatives. Understanding the effects of digitalization in such large societal areas as healthcare is important, as the introduction of these systems influences the work environment of large groups of employees. In addition, digitalisation directly influences the service healthcare staff is able to give to citizens, both on short and long term. ­­­­