Essays about: "Sexual Division of Labor"

Found 5 essays containing the words Sexual Division of Labor.

1. 1. Sexual Orientation, Motherhood and Pay - The case of the gender pay gap for homo-/bisexual women

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Kotten Forsberg Fjellander; [2020]
   Keywords : Labor economics; gender pay gap; motherhood penalty; same-sex couples; Mincer equation; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to widen the understanding of the gender pay gap by introducing the factor of sexuality. Same-sex couples have legal rights that are relatively new; how does our understanding of labor division and pay change when more data on queer people emerge? This is achieved by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from the year 2017 and making multiple regressions, which are based in the Mincer equation. READ MORE

3. 2. Investigating the Relation Between Microcredit and Female Entrepreneurship in Lao PDR

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi

   Author : Klara Granath; Karin Kling; [2018]
   Keywords : Microcredit; Microlending; Microfinance; Female Entrepreneurship; Women’s Entrepreneurship; Lao People s Democratic Republic; Interest Rate; Grace Period; Loan Size; Networking; Motivation; Gender Division of Labor; Sexual Division of Labor; Business Training;

   Abstract : Even though the idea of microcredit is to stimulate entrepreneurial activities in developing countries, there is an ongoing debate whether this is achieved. Many argue that only providing credit is not enough and see a need for additional components in promoting entrepreneurial activities for the stimulation of economic growth. READ MORE

4. 3. "I expected a male reporter" : a qualitative interview-study of the Kerala working culture in media newsrooms

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Journalistik

   Author : Sofia Hermansson; [2017]
   Keywords : movements; femininity; embodiement; Gendered spaces; strategies; female empowerment; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is a qualitative interview-study of the working conditions for female journalists within an Indian and Keralan context focusing on the female body and spaces. The study takes place in the Keralan society focusing on how women journalists cope with working in a traditional male dominated area and how the female body somehow is seen as an invader in the journalism field, based on pre-assumptions on sex and gender and female placement. READ MORE

5. 4. The “defiant but insane look of a species once dominant” – The Problems of Emancipation in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Karl-Johan Skagerström; [2014]
   Keywords : Surfacing; Margaret Atwood; Gender; Hegemonic Masculinity; Emphasized Femininity; Complicity; Male Dominance; Identity; Power; Patriarchy; Feminism; Sexual Division of Labor; The Symbolic; Language;

   Abstract : Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing has received considerable critical attention on the issue of “a positive female identity” in a patriarchal society. However, given Atwood’s own stress on the fact that the novel is about the ways both genders work in relation to each other, this criticism has lacked in scrutiny of the novel’s male characters. READ MORE

6. 5. The Woman Warrior. A Post-structural Gender Analysis of Guerrilleras in Colombia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Linda Eitrem Holmgren; [2009]
   Keywords : Colombia; gender; guerrillera; post-structural theory; guerrilla; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis is a study of female guerrilla soldiers, guerrilleras, in two Colombian guerrilla groups: the rural FARC-EP and the urban M-19. Firstly, the roles female guerrilleras play and the treatment of guerrilleras are described. READ MORE