Essays about: "gender division labour"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 essays containing the words gender division labour.
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16. Solar power means female power? : how the introduction of electricity supports gender needs in rural Bangladesh
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Access to energy is gendered. A lack of household energy affects women in developing countries more severely than it affects men with women spending more time in the house. READ MORE
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17. From traditional to modern rice farming methods: A case study on smallholder farmers in the subaks of Gunung Sari village, Bali, Indonesia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Historically, smallholder farmers have dominated rice production in the Global South, typically cultivating rice on less than one hectare of land. In Indonesia, rice is the staple crop and is both a political and cultural commodity. READ MORE
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18. The Precarious Case of Female Representation: A Single Case Study of Female Political Representation in Lund’s Municipality
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The thesis proceeds from Sweden’s first gender equality sub-goal; Equal Division of Power and Influence, in order to investigate how the political power is divided between the sexes within local committees in Skåne and in Lund. Political commitments at local level should be carried out alongside labour or other occupation; and thus the overall aim of the thesis is to investigate if labour market mechanisms affect women’s representation in local governments. READ MORE
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19. Women in the Swedish Armed Forces : How does the Swedish Armed Forces promote women in order to attract them to their organisation?
University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politikAbstract : The following Bachelor thesis is analysing how the Swedish armed forces promotes women in order to attract them to their organisation. Specifically it investigates (1) "How does the Swedish armed forces break the social norms of what it means to be a soldier?" (2) "How do they present a gender equal division of labour?" (3) "How do they try to affect women´s attitude towards the organisation?" This study investigates the Swedish armed forces, an organisation with a great underrepresentation of women. READ MORE
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20. What is a good man? A qualitative field study of how hegemonic masculinity is changing and being maintained in relation to livelihood diversification, education and gendered division of labour in Southern Ethiopia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Gender equality has become a top priority worldwide. However, gender tends to be synonymous with women and the agency of men is too often marginalised in both development interventions and research. READ MORE
