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1. 1. Female employment, gender roles, and attitudes : The Baltic countries in a broader context

   Författare :Akvilė Motiejūnaitė; Paavo Bergman; Sven EO Hort; Gillian Pascall; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; female employment; work; gender-role attitudes; family models; breadwinner; traditionalism; social change; cross-national comparisons; Estonia; Germany; Latvia; Lithuania; Russia; Sweden; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four constituent studies exploring several common themes: female participation in employment, normative assumptions regarding the proper roles of males and females, and social change. The underlying focus is gendered division of work, which is explored through the concept of family models. LÄS MER

3. 2. Som folk är mest : Könsideal i svenska kontaktannonser 1890–1980

   Författare :Josefin Englund; Maria Ågren; Karin Hassan Jansson; Ulrika Holgersson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender ideals; Classifieds Personal ads; 20th century; Sweden; Welfare; State Everyday Life; Gender Contract; Breadwinner Ideal; Homemaker Ideal; Parenting; Body ideals; Leisure and Gender; Personal interests and qualifications; Historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates 5,000 descriptions of men and women in search for a life partner of the opposite sex through classifieds 1890-1980. The advertisers’ descriptions of who they are and what they want sketches a picture of the expectations everyday people have had on how men and women should be over almost a hundred years. LÄS MER

4. 3. Experience and Identity : A Historical Account of Class, Caste, and Gender among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930–2000

   Författare :Anna Lindberg; Historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cashew factories; cashew workers; experience; identity; effeminization; housewifization; dowry; marriage; breadwinner wages; gender discourses; gender ideologies; trade unions; women; gender; caste; class; Quilon; India; Kerala; Sociology; Sociologi; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Sammanfattning : Since the 1930s female cashew workers have constituted a majority of the registered workers in the South Indian State of Kerala and today number some 200,000. This group challenged the stereotypical view of Third World women because they were organized into unions, worked in the formal sector, and were literate. LÄS MER

5. 4. Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939

   Författare :Tobias Karlsson; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; severance pay; human capital; internal labour markets; economic history; tobacco industry; state-owned enterprises; the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly; the Swedish Tobacco Workers’ Union; gender; male-breadwinner norm; mechanization; workforce reductions; hours-reductions; layoffs; inter-war period;

   Sammanfattning : Downsizing is a phenomenon that remarkably seldom has been the subject of historical inquiry. This study investigates how a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s. LÄS MER

7. 5. Mothers' Social Citizenship : The logics and effects of the German and Swedish welfare states

   Författare :Hanne Martinek; Christina Bergqvist; Tine Rostgaard; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social citizenship; welfare regime; social rights; family policies; parental insurance; public child care; universalism; equivalence; redistribution; gender equality; social equality;

   Sammanfattning : In recent decades, the strong influence of the male breadwinner model of welfare is increasingly being replaced by the adult worker model all across Europe. This development has had a crucial influence on mothers’ social rights. LÄS MER