About

Þorgerður Jennýjardóttir Einarsdóttir
Thorgerdur Jennyardottir Einarsdottir

Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. Background in the social sciences; received PhD in sociology from the University of Göteborg in 1997. Has led the gender studies program at the University of Iceland from 2000. Has published widely on a broad range of gender issues (see CV).
Email: the@hi.is

Most recent publications
2021: "Female enterprise on a transnational border: the entrepreneurial agency of an East Icelandic businesswoman, Pálína Waage (1864–1935)", with Sigrídur Matthíasdóttir, Scandinavian Economic History Review, DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2021.1984296.

2021: "When Discourse is Hijacked: An Implicit and Performative Resistance Strategy to Gender Equality in Higher Education", with Thomas Brorsen Smidt and Gyda Margrét Pétursdóttir, Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 14:2, 143-165.

2020: "Jumpstart, potentials and hindrances: Collaboration projects in gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting" Feminismo/s, 35 (junio 2020): 179-205.
Monographic dossier / Dossier monográfico: A critical practice of thinking otherwise: Bacchi, Gender and Public Policy Analysis, coord. Angela O’Hagan, DOI: 10.14198/fem.2020.35.07

2020: "Expanding gendered sites of resistance in the neoliberal academy",  with Thomas Brorsen Smidt, Fredrik Bondestam and Gyda Margét Pétursdóttir, European Journal of Higher Education, 10(2), 115-129.

2020: "All that Glitters is Not Gold: Shrinking and Bending Gender Equality in Rankings and Nation Branding", NORA, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research published online: 16 Apr 2020. 

2020: “Gendered inequalities in competitive grant funding: an overlooked dimension of gendered power relations in academia”, with Finnborg S. Steinþórsdóttir, Gyða M. Pétursdóttir and Susan Himmelweit, Higher Education Research & Development, 39(2), 362–375.

2020: “Networks, homogeneity and gender in Icelandic business elites”, with Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir, Margrét Sigrún Sigurðardóttir and Magnús Þór Torfason, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 36(1).

Last update November 11, 2021