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Ida-Maria Börjesson serves as a University Lecturer in Gender Studies at Örebro University's School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences while completing her doctoral dissertation. She is actively affiliated with the Center for Feminist Social Studies (CFS), contributing to interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.
Her research centers on the complex dynamics of women's career networks, specifically investigating how gender and same-gender relationships function as strategic resources for professional advancement. Key interests include:
- Gender as emotional orientation in professional contexts
- Paradoxes of women-exclusive networks in achieving career equality
- Alternative purposes behind network persistence beyond stated goals
- Qualitative analysis of network meetings and member interactions
- Intersection of affective labor and professional mobilization
Her dissertation project examines eight women-founded networks through multi-method analysis, revealing how networks simultaneously address and obscure structural inequalities. Despite networks' stated purpose of advancing women's careers, Börjesson's findings show they rarely produce tangible equality outcomes, prompting investigation into unacknowledged emotional and relational functions that sustain these communities. Her work bridges organizational sociology and feminist theory to illuminate hidden dimensions of gendered professional development.
Börjesson teaches gender studies across educational levels from elementary through university, translating complex theoretical frameworks into accessible curricula. Her research environment within the Center for Feminist Social Studies provides critical interdisciplinary support for examining gender dynamics in contemporary workplaces.
