The “Womens University” research project focuses on women’s path to higher education in the 20th and 21st centuries, and on how the increasingly academic nature of vocational training courses has proved to be a stepping-stone along this path for women in Denmark. The research project adopts a historical perspective in considering the fact that women now constitute a majority of the students at Danish universities, and the fact that women in Denmark achieve a higher level of education than men.
This historical perspective is unfolded in two projects: a study of developments since the 1990s, involving the introduction of professional Bachelor’s degree programmes; and a study of selected vocational training courses at Aarhus University from the years around World War II. These studies place the focus on women’s educational strategies, experiences and memories.
Videnskabeliggørelsen af husholdningsarbejdet 1945-1970 (af Pernille Svare Nygaard 13.9.2024)
Staged History: The Mediality and Politics of European University Anniversaries from 1850 to the Present (Bog Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022)
Anmeldelse af ny bog: "Veje og omveje til universitetet" (Published by Skriveforlaget 2021)
Ning de Coninck-Smith: Gender encounters university—university encounters gender: affective archives Aarhus University, Denmark 1928–1953 (Women's History Review Volume 29, 2020)
Pernille Svare Nygaard: NURSING STUDENTS’ SCRAPBOOKS 1938-1968. Visualizing Female Figures on the Border between a Female-Dominated Profession and Aarhus University (Tidsskriftet Kulturstudier Vol. 1/2023)