Search for dissertations about: "gender career"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words gender career.

2. 1. Mapping Gender in Academic Workplaces : Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality

   Author : Paula Mählck; Nora Räthzel; Olle Persson; Lis Höjgaard; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender studies; gender; equality; inequality; academia; career; socio-bibliometric mapping; meritocracy; discourse; Genusforskning; Gender studies; Genus; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. READ MORE

4. 2. Critical conversations : Constructing gender in career counselling

   Author : Camilla Rundberg; Monica Lindgren; Charlotte Holgersson; Tommy Jensen; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; career conversation; career counselling; constructing gender; gendered organization processes; antenarrative; Industrial Engineering and Management; Industriell ekonomi och organisation;

   Abstract : “Critical conversations” is an exploration of the process of constructing gender in a formal organizational process, namely the performance managementprocess. At the collaborative case company, the performance managementprocess is practiced in so called career conversations and the aim is to explore whether men and women are supported and encouraged differently inthese conversations, intended to develop employees’ careers? If so, how is thisdone? Could it contribute to an explanation of the systematic divergence ofcareer advancement for men and women over time and the late arrival of women, relative men, to executive suit. READ MORE

5. 3. Figuring Worlds; Imagining Paths : A Feminist Exploration of Identities in Higher Education Biology

   Author : Katerina Pia Günter; Annica Gullberg; Ingrid Ahnesjö; Karin S. Lindelöf; Maria Berge; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Biology Education; Communities of Practice; Discourse Analysis; Feminist Science Studies; Figured Worlds; Gender; Higher Education; Science Education; Science Identity; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies; Pedagogik; Education; Biologi; Biology;

   Abstract : Higher education biology is a natural science discipline that is numerically female biased on undergraduate level across most international contexts. In Sweden, Germany, and the UK, for example, more than 60% of all undergraduate students are women. READ MORE

6. 4. Gender and Emotions in Family Care – Understanding masculinity and gender equality in Sweden

   Author : Sofia Björk; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; doing gender; re-doing gender; undoing gender; moral intelligibility; masculinities; emotion management; empathic imagination; fatherhood; parenthood; eldercare; sons’ caregiving; gender equality; liveability; Sweden;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses care responsibilities in families as an arena for gender reproduction and change, primarily in the Swedish context, which includes a long history of gender equality policies, and broad public support for ideals of gender equality. The overall aim is to contribute to understanding of how gender continues to be given relevance in family caregiving when caregivers, in their efforts to form liveable and emotionally sustainable lives, make them-selves intelligible in relation to sometimes conflicting norms and ideals of care, work and gender equality. READ MORE

7. 5. In search of future excellence : bibliometric indicators, gender differences, and predicting research performance in the early career

   Author : Jonas Lindahl; Rickard Danell; Cristian Colliander; Birger Larsen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bibliometric indicator; gender; early career; doctoral education; excellence; decision support tool; prediction; research performance; doctoral student; library and information science; biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The governance of higher education institutions and science have endured significant changes during the last decades, emphasizing competitiveness, performance, and excellence. Embedded in this development is an increased use of bibliometric indicators as decision support tools in contexts of e.g., employment, appointment, and funding. READ MORE