Technology Resistance: Helping Administration Stop It in Our Schools

Technology Resistance: Helping Administration Stop It in Our School

The Implementation of Disordered Eating Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education

Eating disorders are incredibly debilitating, dehumanizing, and detrimental mental illnesses that affect diverse populations around the world. Disturbing over 28.8 million Americans alone per year, eating disorders remain the deadliest mental illness. Yet, there exists a gap between the academic and medical literature around eating disorders, and the societally crafted perspective towards eating disorders. While medically, eating disorders are crippling and life-threatening, eating disorders are socially praised and accepted as a norm. Not only are eating disorders vastly regularized in society, but they are also glamorized from the broad media saturation of Eurocentric thin idealization. These ideals are encapsulated by the ideology of diet culture, which promotes habits of disordered eating and associates worth with aestheticism, specifically around one’s body shape or size. Diet culture and the eating disorders that result from it are incredibly pervasive on college campuses, affecting almost a quarter of female students. Yet, there is sparse literature around proven interventions that are in place on college campuses. Therefore, it is crucial that colleges work to introduce successful and cost-efficient interventions on campuses to reduce the widespread illness of eating disorders. Though eating disorders are thought of to only affect thin, white women, they are widely intersectional. Socioeconomic and political barriers are inexorably intertwined with eating disorders, further hindering those from marginalized groups, racially, sexually, and socioeconomically. This has only been heightened from the COVID-19 pandemic. Henceforth, through the coalition between students and their institutions, colleges must work to apply intersectional interventions that are proven, innovative, and cost-effective. While there is not one intervention that stands supreme above all, I suggest multiple proven interventions and document my experience trying to implement a technologically innovative intervention, Wellory, at my institution

Does Money Matter? Childbearing Behaviour of Swedish Students in the 1980's and 1990's

Education is considered to be one of the primary factors behind postponement of childbearing, as students have significantly lower fertility than non-students of the same age. The low fertility of students may have many different explanations. This study focus on the impact of economic and policy factors on the relationship between study enrolment and childbearing in Sweden. Using longitudinal data it is examined whether the student financial aid reform of 1989 had any effect on female students childbearing behaviour and whether female students relative childbearing propensi-ties change when controlling for their earned income. The results show that the reform had no noticeable impact on students childbearing behaviour. However, first birth risks for female students in all age groups are clearly related to earnings, indicating that the postponement of childbearing until completion of education is, to some degree, a matter of economic constraints

Childbearing of students. The case of Sweden

This paper examines childbearing behaviour among Swedish students, and mothers’ enrolment in education in the period 1984 to 1999. By means of longitu¬dinal data on individual childbearing and study activity we detect whether the relative propensity of female students to have a child was affected by macro level changes, such as the student financial aid reform in 1989 and the economic recession in the early 1990s. It also investigates whether the dramatic increase in number of students have changed students’ childbearing patterns. Finally, couples’ higher order birth risks are explored, as well as the influence of the parents’ student status and income on their propensity to have another child. The results show that the reform in 1989 had no noticeable impact on students’ childbearing behaviour or on mothers’ propensity to enrol in education. The recession seems to have had the same negative effect on students’ childbearing risks as it did on the population in general. Despite the dramatic rise in enrolment the negative effect of being a student on childbearing behaviour is stable over time. Another conclusion is that birth risks among female students differ by age and income; the negative effect of being a student on birth risks is much stronger among younger age groups. Among younger students, the propensity to have a child also seems to be slightly more dependent on level of income. Couple data showed that couples where the mother is a student show a lower propensity to have another child, while – more surprising– couples, where the father is a student, have a much higher propensity to have a second or a third child than other couples.childbearing behaviour; Swedish students; female students; birth risks; parents' student status; financial aid reform

Swedish parental leave and gender equality - Achievements and reform challenges in a European perspective

Sweden was the first country to introduce paid parental leave also to fathers in 1974, and this legislation has since then continuously been reformed in order to bring about a more equal parenthood. This study sets out to discuss the Swedish parental leave system and identify achievements, policy dilemmas and reform alternatives in a European perspective. The structure of parental insurance legislation, with earnings-related benefits and a long leave period, is often seen as a main explanation why Sweden has been able to combine relatively high fertility levels with high female labour force participation rates and low child poverty. In the perspective of changing demographic structures in Europe, with declining fertility levels and a growing number of elderly, the strengthening of dual earner family policies, including parental insurance legislation, may mitigate macro-economic and demographic problems by increasing gender equality and decreasing the work-family conflict. Despite the positive consequences, unresolved questions exist in the present parental leave legislation. The flexibility of the Swedish system, which still has extensive transferable leave rights, has the consequence that the lion’s share of parental leave days is still taken by mothers, among other things making it difficult for women to compete on equal terms with men in the labour market. Consequently, the gender-based division of parental leave may contribute to a preservation of traditional gender roles and inequalities. Another problem in the Swedish system is the work requirement for eligibility that excludes students and others with weak labour market attachment from the earnings-related benefits, possibly inflicting on the postponement of parenthood. Raising the minimum benefit could be one solution to enable childbearing among persons with weak labour market attachment, but this would also affect the economic incentives for paid work, and thus weaken the dual earner model.Parental leave; gender equality; reform challenges

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Amid This Greenwood Smiling

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