The GEA Times Commentary

Anisiia Moiakunova, Arctic researcher

“The first to face the effects of climate change are indigenous peoples of the North. The main reason is their dependence on the environment and their close relationship to natural resources”

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Updates on the GEA Report

The Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality Issues is an international cooperative effort of the GEA partners, the Editorial Committee and a Youth Advisory Group. The report will be in both printed and digital form and targeting audiences such as the public and policy making bodies.

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'‘With a non-academic background, being a woman, yet with a strong expectation of justice, I perceived structures of unequally distributed power and injustices hidden by the formal principle of equality before the law. The principle expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was far from fulfilled. I became a researcher to be able to critically study power structures laid down in the law”

Eva-Maria Svensson

“…gender differences in students’ career preferences and that gender-related imposed choices of professions are more prevalent among females. Even though they had great potential for professional growth and future empowerment, many emphasized the gap between personal aspirations and realities”

Marya S. Rozanova-Smith

“More than a decade after having left the Faroe Islands, in 2003 I returned to the Islands. Upon my return what struck me was the seeming absence of women in the public media landscape. I recall posing the question “where are all the women?”.

Although, there has been social change in the Faroe Islands since then; for me, this first initial impression led me to ponder on gender and gender equality issues for years to come, and still does”

Erika Anne Hayfield

Materials in Focus

Topics highlighted in this issue of GEA Material in Focus range from women leading the fight against climate change in Alaska to gender equality in the maritime field from a Swedish female Captain’s perspective.

Inuk Woman City Blues

Follows homeless, addicted and alienated Greenlandic women in Copenhagen, Denmark; includes fragments of Greenlandic culture.

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She wants to ignite a diet revolution: “In Greenland we eat from nature”
Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann insists that a plant-based diet is not the right choice for everyone – at least not in Greenland.

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"I'm Not the Great Hunter, My Wife Is": Iñupiat and anthropological models of gender | By Barbara Bodenhorn
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SLiCA: Arctic living conditions: Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Saami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula | By Poppel Birger, Andersen Thomas, Beach Hugh, Bernard Nick
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Promoting the Traditional Ways of Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples | By Arctic Council
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Sweden still ‘working towards’ approval of Indigenous rights agreement | By Kevin McGwin
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The Impact of Resource Extraction on Inuit Women and Families in Qamani’tuaq, Nunavut Territory | By Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
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Climate Solutions: #LeadingWomen – Alaska & Global Warming: Climate Genocide | By Faith Gemmill
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Navigation and Gender Equality | By Captain Malin Andersson
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Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries | By Christina Bergqist
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The GEA has compiled more than 200 academic papers, reports, research papers, professional comments and interviews, videos, podcasts, journalist publications and books relevant to Gender Equality in the Arctic.

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The GEA Calendar

The GEA Calendar gathers upcoming Gender Equality in the Arctic – relevant deadlines and events.

The Gender Equality Studies and Training programme (GEST) is a five month long postgraduate diploma programme (30 ECTS) hosted by the University of Iceland. The programme operates within GRÓ, Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change under the auspices of UNESCO. Deadline: 30 June 2020.

PhD Fellow in Gender Research at the Centre for Women´s and Gender Research. A PhD position is available at the Centre for Women´s and Gender Research, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. UiT, campus Tromsø. The deadline for applications is 30 September 2020.

What is the GEA Times?

One of the main objectives of the GEA project is to put the spotlight on gender equality issues in the Arctic. The GEA Times is a venue for us, and you, to contribute to the discussion and to put focus on gender equality in the Arctic, and to promote events and material related to Arctic gender equality. We hope that the GEA Times will help strengthen the GEA community.

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About the GEA project

Gender Equality in the Arctic is an international collaborative Sustainable Development Working Group project focusing on gender equality in the Arctic

The purpose of this project is to promote an extensive, policy-relevant dialogue on issues of gender equality in the Arctic region in the context of current realities in terms of economic and social development as well as current and future challenges, inter alia relating to climatic and environmental changes.

The Gender Equality in the Arctic project is endorsed by the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group
SDWG website | Arctic Council website