Sökning: "Women s Empowerment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Women s Empowerment.

  1. 1. Empowerment and health promotion in working life

    Författare :Hanna Arneson; Tage S. Kristensen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Health promotion; Workplace; Social support; self-rated health; burnout; Health and medical services in society; Hälso- och sjukvård i samhället;

    Sammanfattning : Background: In ‘workplace health promotion’, empowerment is assumed to promote health. Nevertheless, few studies have examined the relationship between empowerment in working life, and health.Aim: To study the impact of empowerment in working life on health, with special focus on gender differences. LÄS MER

  3. 2. "I Wanna Be Free" : On the Challenges and Coping Strategies of Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden

    Författare :Aziza Al Ghafri; Charlotte Holgersson; Monica Lindgren; Whysnianti Basuki; Elisabeth Ljunggren; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender; gender equality; women entrepreneurs; gendered entrepreneurship; immigrant entrepreneurs; ethnicity; race; challenges; coping strategies; othering; identity work; belonging; empowerment; emancipation; Sweden.; Industrial Economics and Management; Industriell ekonomi och organisation;

    Sammanfattning : Women's entrepreneurship is often presented as important for creating economic prosperity at the national level and is said to offer freedom, independence, and emancipation for women. The purpose of this study is to explore the conditions of women entrepreneurs who have different backgrounds in Sweden. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Promoting equality between women and men in bilateral development cooperation : Concepts, goals, rationales and institutional arrangements. Part One. Theory, practice and priorities for change. Part Two. Empirical studies in two sectors in Tanzania: Household water supplies and health development

    Författare :Carolyn Hannan; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; water supplies; United Nations; Tanzania; organizational change; mainstreaming; institutional development; human geography; health development; feminist geography; Gender equality; bilateral development cooperation; women´s empowerment.; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : Gender equality has been on the development cooperation agenda for more than three decades. Bilateral agencies have developed policies, strategies, methodologies and tools to support achievement of this important goal. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Trading out? : A study of farming women’s and men’s access to resources in rural Ethiopia

    Författare :Åsa Torkelsson; Árni Sverrisson; Eva Meyersson Milgrom; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethiopia; gender; economic sociology; social resources; local markets; trade; female-headed households; resource index; rural development; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gender dimensions in family life : a comparative study of structural constraints and power in Sweden and Japan

    Författare :Mieko Takahashi; Jane Millar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to analyze and compare women’s experiences, choices and practices in family life relative to men’s. The central questions addressed are: How does the gender structure in societies alter the gendered distribution of resources in society and the division of paid and unpaid work in families? What types of gender structures in societies allow women to exercise power in the family? Sweden and Japan are chosen as comparative cases since these two societies represent opposite ends of the spectrum of welfare regime typologies in terms of gender logics; one is based on equality and institutional individualization (Sweden), while the other is structured around gender difference, male breadwinner norms and policies to support them (Japan). LÄS MER