Search for dissertations about: "gender in education"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 426 swedish dissertations containing the words gender in education.
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1. Figuring Worlds; Imagining Paths : A Feminist Exploration of Identities in Higher Education 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
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2. Social inequity in health : Explanation from a life course and gender perspective
Abstract : Background: A boy child born in a Gothenburg suburb has a life expectancy that is nine years shorter than that of another child just 23 km away, and among girls the difference is five years. There is no necessary biological reason to this observed difference. READ MORE
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3. Education, Gender and Media : Empirical Essays in Development Economics
Abstract : The first essay, Edutainment Radio, Women’s Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia, investigates whether exposure to education-entertainment radio leads to improved women's status and primary school participation. Results show significant behavioral effects related to women's decision-making power and investments in children's primary schooling in exposed areas. READ MORE
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4. New methods of teaching? : refroming education in Lao PDR
Abstract : This thesis is about the recent education reform in Laos as a global and a local process. When the economy was deteriorating in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), the so called New Economic Mechanism (NEM) was introduced and the country opened up for global donors and markets. This also had an effect on the education system. READ MORE
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5. Mapping Gender in Academic Workplaces : Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality
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