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The article suggests that questions of sex/gender and advanced information technologies can be addressed through the concept it encircles prevaling discourses about sex/gender and technology and analyses the mertaphor of cyberspece within the context of a genealogical approach to the history of information. Furthermore Donna Haraway's cyborg metaphor introduses as an instance of feminist metaphorical work and the article seeks from prevailing discourses about technology. Finally it shortly decodes the rhetoric of the Danish information society report enlightened by a 'sense of cyborg'.

Gender as infrastructure. Based on the theoretical conception of 'infrastructure' the article explores how gender can be understood in the context of the Danish information infrastructure CPR, which registers all Danish citizens. Specific to this information system is that it produces gender specific ID-numbers for citizens, which are then used to structure the Danish welfare system. Installed in this omnipotent system, the gender categories create a needed order in everyday life and, thus, become invisible. But for transgendered citizens, who live in and embody the boarderland between 'male' and 'female', the categories become highly visible as they become a source of suffering due to the infrastructure's requirement of clear gender categorizations, either/or. However, these categorizations can not be easily cast away as they are based on normative understandings of gender as a biological fact.

The article discusses three different tendencies of research in gender and literature. These are presented as sex, referring to the way we categorise women and men as biological beings; gender as construction; and deconstrudtion of gender binaries. These tendencies are applied to theories of aeshetic responses as Wolfgang Iser presents them in his book "The Act of Reading". Iser's focus on reading ad projection has inspired the author to improve three different tendencies of research on gender and literature. Throghout the article reflects on the use gender in reading and teaching literature; it offers no simple answer, but more possibilities.

Kolofon -- Indhold -- Resumé - DK -- 1. Baggrund for rapporten -- 2. Tal og fakta om køn, uddannelse og befolkningsstrømme -- 3. Hvorfor er det vigtigt at medtænke køn og ligestilling? -- 4. Ligheder og forskelle mellem de nordiske lande -- 5. Eksisterende forskning og faglitteratur - et sammendrag -- 5.1 De unge i yderområderne føler et stort pres for at forlade deres lokalsamfund -- 5.2 Det er ofte uddannelses- eller arbejdsrelateret, når unge (især kvinderne) flytter -- 5.3 Stedet, hvor de unge bor, danner præmisserne for deres muligheder og valg i forhold til uddannelse

Qualifications and GenderIt is a myth that the universities as a system unconditionally recruit the academically best-qualified researchers. The priorities in the research system is determined by a range of - partly externally given - system requirements, which include a specific distribution of positions and research grants with regard to academic disciplines and research topics together with a set of institutional and geographic constraints. The system requirements predetermine at all times which kind of academic qualifications are in demand and determine who may altogether come into consideration for a research position. Fulfilment of the system requirements has both currently and historically justified that less qualified researchers with a specific academic profile are preferred to academic positions. The article offers examples of what is presently considered to be legitimate system requirements. Among these is not a more equal representation of the sexes in academic positions. The article argues that a more equal representation of the sexes could lead to an increase in the overall academic quality of the research system.