Jämställdhetspolitik som ideologi eller vetenskap? : En analys av debatten om jämställdhetsintegrering i akademin

Evelina  Johansson Wilén; Vanja  Carlsson; Johan  Söderberg

doi:10.55870/tgv.v42i1.1984

Författare

Evelina Johansson Wilén Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, Örebro universitet
Vanja Carlsson Institutionen för Samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, Karlstad universitet
Johan Söderberg Avdelningen för lingvistik, logik och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v42i1.1984

Nyckelord:

Jämställdhetsintegrering, högre utbildning och forskning, ideologi, vetenskap, akademisk frihet

Abstract

In this article we analyze the public debate on gender mainstreaming of higher education and research in Sweden between 2016– 2020, focusing on 1) positions that advocate the gender equality initiatives and 2) positions that criticize them. A recurring theme in the defense and the critique of gender mainstreaming is whether gender mainstreaming policies should be understood as ideologically driven or not and how this relates to the university’s scientific task. In the analysis, we focus on which understanding of the relationship between science and politics that appears in the empirical material and how this – explicitly or implicitly – expresses different understandings of ideology and its relation to science. We find that both sides tend to build on either a negative or a functionalist/ positive conception of ideology, and we argue that an epistemic approach to ideology paves the way for a more nuanced and reflexive scientific debate on the relationship between politics and knowledge.