Essays about: "Industrialisation and women"

Found 5 essays containing the words Industrialisation and women.

  1. 1. Modelling the energy demand for transport in Sub-Saharan Africa : World Energy Outlook as a Case Study

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Amrita Dasgupta; [2019]
    Keywords : Energy demand projections; modelling; transport; infrastructure; Sub-Saharan Africa; road; rail; aviation; navigation; oil consumption; population; GDP; growth; urbanisation; air quality; sustainability; policies; development; Energibehovsprognoser; modellering; transport; infrastruktur; subsahariska Afrika; väg; järnväg; luftfart; sjöfart; oljekonsumtion; befolkning; BNP; tillväxt; urbanisering; luftkvalitet; hållbarhet; politik; utveckling;

    Abstract : Energy demand projections are essential tools that enable policymakers, engineers, scientists, stakeholders and investors to assess the future energy needs of a country and understand the technical, economic, social and environmental costs associated with meeting this demand. Such tools become further indispensable in the case of developing countries, where past consumption trends alone cannot indicate the trajectory of their future energy demand. READ MORE

  3. 2. Women, Work, and the Family Economy: A Study on the Determinants of Female Gainful Employment in Sweden, 1880-1910

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Joris Kok; [2018]
    Keywords : gainful employment; family economy; gender; marital status; nineteenth century; industrialisation; Sweden; Business and Economics; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Today, Swedish women have one of the highest participation rates. In the nineteenth century, however, virtually no married women were recorded as working. Their participation rates started rising around the turn-of-the-century. READ MORE

  4. 3. Illuminating Inner Life : A Comparison of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Marie-Helen Rosalie Stahl; [2016]
    Keywords : Virginia Woolf; Arthur Schnitzler; Modernism; Stream of Consciousness; Empiricist Psychology;

    Abstract : In the early 20th century, authors increasingly experimented with literary techniques striving towards two common aims: to illumine the inner life of their protagonists and to diverge from conventional forms of literary representations of reality. This shared endeavour was sparked by changes in society: industrialisation, developments in psychology, and the gradual decay of empires, such as the Victorian (1837–1901) and the Austro-Hungarian (1867–1918). READ MORE

  5. 4. Gender segregation in the Swedish labour market : Historical, Sociological and Rational Choice institutionalism as tools for understanding inequality and why it still exists

    University essay from Statsvetenskap

    Author : Hedvig Stenmark; [2010]
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    Abstract : There is a wide spread discrimination between the genders at the Swedish labour market. Women get lower wages, their skills are undervalued compared to men, it is harder for women to advance, they are more likely to involuntary do part time jobs and they usually end up in the least qualified and stimulating jobs. READ MORE

  6. 5. Fakalakalaka : The impact of a Tongan notion of development in a contemporary transnational world

    University essay from Socialantropologi

    Author : Cecilia Herlin; [2006]
    Keywords : Anthropology; development; migration transnationalism; textile koloa ; Tonga; women.;

    Abstract : This paper aims to explore a Tongan notion of development –'fakalakalaka' – in light of Western notions of development. Two case studies of international development aid schemes illustrate the impact of Tongan development ideas in practice. READ MORE