Sökning: "gender at work"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 685 avhandlingar innehållade orden gender at work.

  1. 1. Arbete : Skillnadsskapande och försörjning i 1500-talets Sverige

    Författare :Christopher Pihl; Maria Ågren; Rosemarie Fiebranz; Mia Korpiola; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; work; gender; gender division of work; Sweden; sixteenth-century; household; specialisation; wages; early modern period; social history; skills; royal demesnes; women’s work; men’s work; Olaus Magnus; Hans Brask; Per Brahe; Gripsholm; Julita; Tynnelsö; Kalmar; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore work as an idea and a practice for the construction and maintenance of differences and power relations, and to examine what the consequences were for the individual and society in early modern Sweden. The period saw an expansion of the state apparatus which created numerous new opportunities for employment. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Vardagens könsinnebörder under förhandling : om arbete, familj och produktion av kvinnlighet

    Författare :Eva Magnusson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; work-family conflict; women s everyday lives; organizational change; discourse analysis; modes of understanding; social constructionism; life history; feminist psychology;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this study was Swedish women's experiences of their everyday lives as lived between the demands of work and family. Twenty female civil servants were interviewed six times each over a three and a half year period when their work places underwent organizational changes. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Gender Matters : Differences and change in disability and health among our oldest women and men

    Författare :Pär Schön; Marti G. Parker; Mats Thorslund; Boo Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; oldest old; gender differences; health trends; disability; care utilization; healthy life expectancy; Sweden; Social work; Socialt arbete; Social Work; socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates gender differences in health and how they have changed between 1992 and 2002 among very old people. It explores gender differences in the association between disability and health, and gender differences in care utilization among our oldest old people. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Business as Usual? : Doing gender equality in Swedish forestry work organisations

    Författare :Maria Johansson; Malin Lindberg; Ulrika Haake; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Feminist action research; Forestry; Gender; Gender equality; Organization; Male dominated industries; Genus och teknik; Gender and Technology; Industriell design; Industrial Design;

    Sammanfattning : The title of this thesis is Business as usual? Doing gender equality in Swedish forestry work organizations and while the latter part, the subtitle, is rather self-explanatory, the former part can be read in different ways. The aim of the thesis is to increase the understanding of the doing of gender equality in the male dominated work organizations of the Swedish forestry sector, and thereby contribute both theoretical and empirical understanding regarding how doing gender equality in the forestry sector relates both to notions of gender and notions of organizations. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Femininity at Work : Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital

    Författare :Rebecca Selberg; Gunnar Olofsson; Diana Mulinari; Jeff Hearn; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Care; Gender; Femininity; Nursing; Labour process; Ethnography; Neoliberalism; Work Life Studies; Arbetlivsvetenskap; Gender Studies; Genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state. LÄS MER