Essays about: "role of women in family of india"

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  1. 1. "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

  3. 2. Women and Maids : Perceptions of domestic workers, house work and class among young, progressive, middle-to-upper class women in Delhi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Otso Harju; [2016]
    Keywords : Domestic workers; Delhi; Class; Gender roles; Reflexivity; Social change; Family; India; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses ten indepth interviews on domestic workers, class and gender roles with ten young, politically inclined and often adamantly feminist women towards the upper end of the Indian class spectrum. It aims to deepen the understanding of employerworker relations and gendered domestic roles in contemporary Indian households. READ MORE

  4. 3. Environmental Education and Gender: Voices from India and Brazil

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

    Author : Analice Nogueira Martins; [2016]
    Keywords : Gender; education; environment; India; Brazil; NGO; Paulo Freire;

    Abstract : Dramatic changes in the environmental patterns represent a threat to human beings and life on this planet. However, due to differences in the social roles and rights between women and men, a gender perspective is essential to understand how these changes in the environment are affecting individuals in their societies. READ MORE

  5. 4. Managing the work-family dilemma - a qualitative study of Volvo IT India

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap

    Author : Sara Windrup; Jenny Fransson; [2013-10-11]
    Keywords : India; Gender Diversity; Work-Family Dilemma; Volvo Information Technology India; Flexibility;

    Abstract : This thesis it written upon a request from Volvo IT India, in order to explain how the organisation can increase gender diversity and the effects an increase might generate. The thesis aims to investigate and understand the respondents’ perceptions on why women in India start working and the challenges they might come across. READ MORE

  6. 5. Characters' Views and Perception : Hybridity and the Westerners in Two Indian Novels by Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie

    University essay from Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Pernilla Petersson; [2013]
    Keywords : Hybridity; adaptation; imitation; Indian views; alienating hybridity; half-breed; the West;

    Abstract : In the two novels, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, characters show that their preconceptions and encounter with the Westerners play a big role in how they view Westerners and/or Indians who have adapted to or grown up with the Western lifestyle. Due to Roy’s family being a group of “Anglophiles” and liking the British, they see Sophie Mol being half-Indian as positive. READ MORE