Search for dissertations about: "college women"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words college women.

2. 1. Higher Education for Girls in North American College Fiction 1886-1912

   Author : Gunilla Lindgren; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; Vassar College; liberal-arts education for women; Jean Webster; Julia A. Schwartz; Caroline M. Fuller; Helen D. Brown; Alfred Tennyson s The Princess; education in literature; women s higher education in North America; women s education in fiction; college fiction; college girls; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : Twenty years after Vassar College welcomed the first American female undergraduates in 1865, the experiences of women college students began to be fictionalized in so-called college stories. This thesis shows how higher education is presented in the novels, collections of short stories, and serialized stories for female readers published before the United States was involved in the First World War. READ MORE

4. 2. College choice and earnings among university graduates in Sweden

   Author : Kent Eliasson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; University enrollment; college choice; accessibility; earnings; ability; selection bias; propensity score matching; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of three papers that examine college choice and earnings among university graduates in Sweden.Paper [I] analyzes how geographical accessibility to higher education affects university enrollment decisions in Sweden. READ MORE

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

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

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

6. 4. Essays in economics : The impact of changes on the labor market induced by structural change, the adoption of a new computer-based technology and economic slowdowns on family formation, family fertility outcomes and new careers

   Author : Tamara Thornquist; Peter Skogman Thoursie; Jonas Vlachos; Hans Grönqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor market; structural change; polarization of earnings; computer-based technology; economic slowdowns; family formation; family fertility outcomes; careers; college graduates; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Childlessness, Number of Children and The Labor Market at the Time of a New Technology, the US 1980-2018The adoption of a new computer-based technology in the US in the late 1970s resulted in broad changes on the labor market that can be described by two major phenomena - job polarization and a shift in the relative returns to skill. A well established theoretical and empirical literature shows that commuting zones with a historically greater specialization in routine task intensive occupations adopted the new computer-based technology faster and subsequently saw greater changes on the local labor markets. READ MORE

7. 5. Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular vulnerability in women : psychosocial, behavioral and biological mediators

   Author : Sarah P Wamala; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Childhood circumstances; Coronary heart disease; Health behaviors; Hemostatic function; Lipids; Obesity; Physiological risk factors; Prognosis; Psychosocial stress; Socioeconomic status; Women;

   Abstract : Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in both men and women in the industrialized world, and represents a major health and economic burden. Coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the most common of the cardiovascular diseases, is invariably more frequent in men and women of lower than higher socioeconomic status (SES). READ MORE