Essays about: "Changing gender roles"
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6. The role of gender equality on rural women development in agriculture : case study: koperative duhinge ikigori kanjongo “KODIKA”, Nyamasheke district, Rwanda
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Gender is as a contract in society regulating the relations between men and women. But Gender equality is referred to as equal rights, roles and responsibilities for men and women. It is a crucial element in sustainable development, and it is considered as human rights. READ MORE
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7. Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture: Lessons from Farming Communities in Ejisu Municipality, Ghana
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Climate change poses a threat to agriculture. Ghana’s agriculture is mainly dependent on rainfall, this makes subsistence farmers majority of whom are women more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. That said, the impacts of climate change are felt differently by men and women due to their social assigned roles and responsibilities. READ MORE
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8. An economic room of one's own : A study of commercial femininity in Swedish beauty advertising 1930–1950
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Based in the rapidly changing economic and cultural rooms of 1930s and 1940s Sweden, this study consults beauty advertising to find how advertiser’s endeavours to reconcile industrial mass consumption with individuality looked in the weekly press and how depictions of femininity changed throughout the interwar period and into the early-post war era. Advertisements found in woman’s weekly magazine Husmodern were studied through a methodology combining theories on narrative and performance, finding that individuality in advertising 1930–1950 was largely achieved in the latter part of the period through an increasingly personal style of advertising, using tropes of friendship and community to inspire consumption in contrast to the anonymity of the earlier period. READ MORE
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9. Gender, age and other intersections in Estonian women’s leadership experiences
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : This is qualitative study on how gender, age and other factors influence leadership experiences of a mixed sample of women from different sectors and from different age groups in Estonia. An intersectional framework is used to challenge universalist or gender-neutral assumptions about leadership and to examine the multi-layered issues and challenges these women face in their pursuit of leadership success. READ MORE
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10. Not just a kvinnofråga A content analysis of Swedish press portrayals of men & #MeToo
University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiAbstract : With its sudden outbreak in October 2017, the anti-harassment movement #MeToo quickly created a vast, worldwide impact on social media, in the traditional press as well as in everyday lives. In Sweden especially, a country with a long history in fighting for gender equality, women in their thousands shared their stories of sexual harassment and came together both as individuals and as occupational groups to raise a collective voice. READ MORE
