Search for dissertations about: "working mothers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words working mothers.

  2. 1. Mothers’ Agency in Managing Breastfeeding and Other Work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and New Delhi, India

    Author : Amal Omer-Salim; Pia Olsson; Lars-Åke Persson; Lars Dahlgren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Breastfeeding; Women; Mothers; Work; Employment; Agency; Tanzania; India; Pediatrik; Pediatrics;

    Abstract : Combining breastfeeding and other forms of work is desirable from both public health and labour productivity perspectives. This is often challenging, especially in low- or middle-income fast-growing urban settings. READ MORE

  4. 2. Toward a Working Life. Solving the work-family dilemma

    Author : Karin Allard; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; parental leave; Swedish family policy; work-family conflict; work-personal life harmoniation; flexible working arrangements; organizational culture;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at identifying factors important in employees’ strive toward combining work and family in a satisfying way. The thesis relies on four papers that focus on the use of parental leave, experiences of work-family conflict and experiences of work-personal life harmonization. READ MORE

  5. 3. Perceiving motherhood and fatherhood : Swedish working parents with young children

    Author : Clarissa Kugelberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; anthropology; Sweden; family; parenthood; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This book explores the way in which a group of parents of pre-school children construct the meaning of motherhood and fatherhood and cope with discourses that hold conflicting rules and value systems. Being a working parent today in Sweden entails moving between various domains. READ MORE

  6. 4. Street Working Children in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq followed over 16 years : Mental Health and Traumatization

    Author : Nezar Taib; Mia Ramklint; Abdulbaghi Ahmad; Marie Louise Nørredam; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : street working boys; schoolboys; mental disorders; trauma; homotypic and heterotypic continuity; thematic analysis; follow-up; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

    Abstract : The overall aims of the research this thesis is based upon were to assess mental disorders and trauma experiences of street working boys in Duhok (in the Kurdistan region of Iraq), compare them with schoolboys of the same community, follow the street working boys into adulthood, and examine the continuity of mental disorders, as well as their adult perspectives on their previous street work.A group of 100 street working boys was examined in 2004–2005, and 40 of the same group (as adults) in 2021. READ MORE

  7. 5. Incentives and Inequalities in Family and Working Life

    Author : Aino-Maija Aalto; Helena Svaleryd; Oskar Nordström Skans; Mårten Palme; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Career Choices; Role Models; STEM; Childcare; Child Health; Unemployment; Quasi-Experiment; Parental Leave Reform; Labour Market Participation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay I: Same-gender teachers may affect educational preferences by acting as role models for their students. I study the importance of the gender composition of teachers in math and science during lower secondary school on the likelihood to continue in math-intensive tracks in the next levels of education. READ MORE