Most read in 2024
Our readers were most concerned about the fact that women take on the majority of academic housework – the service work in academia.
The news article on Kifinfo about who does the academic housework was our readers favorite last year.
Among the top five most-read stories in English were articles about ambitious students, the low number of discrimination reports by students and staff in 2024, diversity management and why researchers with minority background don’t dream of becoming a researcher.
1. Women end up doing the academic housework
While women actively participate in the practical work at their organisation, men dodge it.
2. Ambitious students take longer to complete higher education
Immigrants take longer to complete a degree in higher education than the rest of the population, new statistics show. Fafo researcher Jon Horgen Friberg believes the figures must be seen as part of a larger picture.
3. Few reports of discrimination by students and staff in academia
The Anti-Discrimination Tribunal made decisions in more than 600 cases in 2023 and 2024. Students and staff in higher education and research only reported 16 cases of discrimination or harassment based on ethnicity or gender. And only one was taken further.
4. What is good diversity management?
“Diversity management is not only about the needs of minorities, but also about the other employees who might need adaptation when they’re going through rough patches in their lives,” says Professor Gro Mjeldheim Sandal.
5. “I never dreamed of becoming a researcher”
“That’s because growing up, I hadn't seen researchers with minority backgrounds in the media, and no one in my social network works in academia,” says Usma Ahmed, a new research fellow at OsloMet.
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