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1. 31. Is College Science Teaching Women's Work? : Gender Inequity in the Physical Sciences

   Författare :Katherine Doerr; Catherine Riegle-Crumb; USA The University of Texas at Austin; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; work; teaching; science; Naturvetenskapernas didaktik; Science education;

   Sammanfattning : After decades of virtual exclusion from participation in STEM, women have majored in, earned graduate degrees in, and forged careers in male-dominated fields such as the physical sciences in increasing numbers. At each step of the way, however, women’s participation diminishes, and this is especially apparent in the workforce. LÄS MER

3. 32. Att hjälpa andra : gåvans, rättvisans och medkänslans aporier i frivilligarbete

   Författare :Hanna Bäckström; Linda Berg; Sara Edenheim; Helen Andersson; Lisa Folkmarson Käll; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; critical social work; empathy; ethics of care; feminist ethics; gifts; gift-giving; moral perception; poststructuralist ethics; solidarity; street-begging; voluntary social work; civilsamhälle; kritiskt socialt arbete; empati; omsorgsetik; feministisk etik; gåvor; moralisk perception; poststrukturalistisk etik; solidaritet; tiggeri; frivilligt socialt arbete; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis addresses the issue of social work in Swedish civil society, focusing on the ambition and practice of helping others as an existential as well as a social, political and cultural phenomenon. The aim is to study the ambiguities and aporetic conflicts that imbue helping activities and the desire to help others, using ethnographic as well as philosophical method. LÄS MER

4. 33. When the first-world-north goes local : Education and gender in post-revolution Laos

   Författare :Ann-Louise Bäcktorp; Britt-Marie Berge; Lars Dahlström; Ulla Ambosius Madsen; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; gender; development cooperation; post-structuralism; post-colonialism; discourse analysis; Laos; ethnography; Education; Pedagogik;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of three global issues – development cooperation, education and gender - and their transformation to local circumstances in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Combining post-colonial and post-structural perspectives, it sets out to understand how discourses of education and gender in Laos intersect with discourses of education and gender within development cooperation represented by organisations such as the World Bank and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). LÄS MER

5. 34. Creating spaces for action. ANC-women politicians' views on bridewealth and gender-related power

   Författare :Frida Nilsson; Tom Burns; Birgitta Holm; Marianne Liljeström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; ANC-women; bridewealth lobola; discourse; discursive strategy; gender; gender-related power; hermeneutic approach; structure; agency; self-reflexivity; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Sammanfattning : The first aim of this work has been to analyse and understand the ways in which a group of ANC-women politicians reason about bridewealth/lobola – an institution about which they express differing views, in particular about whether or not it is oppressive to women. The main body of the empirical material is based on 27 interviews conducted in South Africa in the period 1996-1998. LÄS MER

7. 35. Att peka med hela handen : Om arbetsvillkor och kön bland första linjens chefer

   Författare :Britt-Inger Keisu; Nils Eriksson; Lena Abrahamsson; Pia Höök; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; leadership; first-level manager; gender; doing gender perspective; case study; working conditions; sexual harassment; discrimination; organizational structure; organizational culture; Sociology; Sociologi; sociologi; Sociology;

   Sammanfattning : Historically, leadership research has focused on managers’ characteristics and behavior, their leadership style and its implications for a business’s success. In contrast, this dissertation examines how working conditions in the workplace affect first-level managers’ everyday work, their possibilities to practice leadership, and consequently their leadership style. LÄS MER