Gendered Norms at Work / Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being (PDF)

Britt-Inger Keisu is an associate professor in sociology and heads the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her main research interest is gender and organization theory. She has received several research grants, all of them with research focus on organizational factors that are important for employees and managers, such as (in)equality, work environment and health issues.



Susanne Tafvelin is an associate professor and registered psychologist at the Department of Psychology, Umeå University. Her research concerns the role of leadership and the work environment for employee health and well-being. She has received numerous awards for her research on leadership and stress, and published her work in prestigious journals like Work and Stress and Stress and Health.



Helene Brodin holds a PhD in Economic History and is Associate Professor in Social Work, Stockholm University. Her main research concern intersectional theories, care policies and care work with a special focus on how New Public Management (NPM) has affected working conditions and the distribution of services in the welfare sector. She has received several research grants, all of them with a research focus on how norms of gender contribute to shape and affect working conditions and the work environment in the women-dominated public welfare sector.