Sökning: "Gender contract"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gender contract.

  1. 1. Globalization, Gender Inequality, and Firm Innovation

    Författare :Olga Lark; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; foreign ownership; internationalization; export; contract intensity; interpersonal contacts; gender inequality; gender wage gap; gender norms; gender inequality index; customer discrimination; import competition; innovation; patents; ; manufacturing capabilities;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises four self-contained papers that rely on applied micro-econometric methods to understand which factors are important in shaping the gender wage gap in globalized firms and how firms innovate when exposed to trade-induced shocks. In the first paper, we study how the within-firm gender wage gap in Sweden is affected by the degree of gender inequality in the home country of foreign investors. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Ny organisation, ny teknik - nya genusrelationer? : En studie av omförhandling av genuskontrakt på två industriarbetsplatser

    Författare :Lena Pettersson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender contract; sex-typing; industrial work; re-negotiation; break experiment; work rotation; equality policy; new technology; male supremacy; female subordination; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : In Sweden extensive policies for gender equality have emerged over the last ten years. This PhD dissertation analyzes re-negotiated gender relations in two Swedish industrial settings, an electronics firm and an engineering firm. LÄS MER

  4. 3. I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860 : Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860

    Författare :Carolina Uppenberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; servant; maid; farmhand; master; mistress; rural household; agrarian revolution; life-cycle servant; 18th century; 19th century; gender; patriarchy; contract; labour; Servant Acts; proletarianization; feminization; laga försvar; compulsory service;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically as a gendered, contracted position with both economic and moral dimensions attached to them. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Where Gendered Spaces Bend : The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos

    Författare :Anna-Klara Lindeborg; Aida Aragao - Lagergren; Susanne Stenbacka; Jonathan Rigg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Laos; LuangNamtha; rubber; gender; HatNyao; everyday life; bend; transitions; paradoxical spaces; intersectionality; ethnography; Hmong; phenomenon; gender contract; intersectionality; border-region; division of labour; China; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi; Geography;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. LÄS MER

  7. 5. På väg mot jämställda arbetsresor? : Vardagens mobilitet i förändring och förhandling

    Författare :Ana Gil Sola; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; commuting; distance; gender; gender contract; means of transport; men; negotiations; regional enlargement; speed; time; women; work-trip;

    Sammanfattning : In Swedish regional policy, regional enlargement, i.e. geographically extended labour markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal. This is in order to stimulate economic growth and better match labour supply to the qualifications of the population. LÄS MER