Essays about: "gender roles"

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  1. 31. What impacts one's willingness to defend? A study of the influence of military training in Sweden

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Aron Björk; [2023]
    Keywords : Conscription; Military training; Willingness to defend;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the effect of military training on one's willingness to defend by answering the question: How does military training influence the likelihood of people expressing (or having) a willingness to defend one's country? Using difference-in-differences and IV approaches within a linear probability model framework, it exploits two exogenous variations in conscription policy on new survey data in Sweden. First, conscription has almost exclusively covered men, leaving two distinct groups. READ MORE

  3. 32. Human Trafficking : “The Silent Victims”

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Ema Miseikaite; [2023]
    Keywords : Human trafficking; Male trafficking victims; Masculinity; Gender roles; Globalization;

    Abstract : Human Trafficking, also known as Trafficking in Persons, or Modern-Day Slavery, is a multibillion-dollar industry that consumes millions of individuals from diverse social, cultural, racial, national, or gender backgrounds. Human trafficking can take many forms: labor, organ, and sex trafficking. READ MORE

  4. 33. Gender Norms, Temporal Flexibility, and Talent Misallocation

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Tzu-Hsi Chen; Ziyuan Wan; [2023]
    Keywords : Gender; Time Allocation; Occupational Choice; Division of Labor; Misallocation;

    Abstract : To what extent do unequal gender roles in the household affect aggregate outputs when there is temporal inflexibility in the labor market? Following Goldin (2014) and Erosa et al. (2022)'s narrative of how disproportionate rewards to long hours create a source of distortion in the labor market, we explore the aggregate effects of gender differences exacerbated by nonlinear wage structures through a static model calibrated on US labor force data. READ MORE

  5. 34. Homestead gardening in rural Bangladesh : women’s contribution to sustainable local food system and security

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Khondaker Nusrat Sharmin Tumpa; [2023]
    Keywords : Homestead gardening; sustainable; food system; food security; women;

    Abstract : This thesis presents qualitative research to explore women’s contribution to sustainable food systems and security through homestead gardening in rural Bangladesh. In rural Bangladesh, women frequently undertake homestead gardening, a traditional and widespread practice of producing different vegetables and rearing domestic animals in a small plot of land beside their house. READ MORE

  6. 35. Ageism and gender through the mirror:  the case of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Fatima Amghar Lopez; [2023]
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    Abstract : In the tradition of western film sector, the mirror has played different roles, from displayingrepresentations of the female body that subsumes into the satisfaction of the male eye toprojecting gendered standards that have taken part in the construction of Western socialimaginaries. Since the motion picture sector is a form of public discourse that influences andshapes beliefs, imagery and cultural practices of a given society, this thesis puts underscrutiny the relation to the mirror in both symbolic and material perspectives through the casestudy of the main mirror scenes of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). READ MORE