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Sammanfattning: This is a study of how speaking time is distributed in two different classroom settings. The study includes observations of lessons and interviews with teachers. The main aim of the study was to ascertain whether boys and girls receive and claim speaking time to an equal extent. The justification for the study is that school is supposed to give equal education to all pupils, and an essential condition for this should be that both boys and girls are given and can use the speaking time equally. The study was conducted from a gender perspective and with the approach of social constructionism. It examines the speaking time that the pupils take without the teacher’s permission, and also how the teacher allocates speaking time to boys and to girls. The result shows that boys dominate the speaking time, even though teachers say that they make an effort to distribute speaking time equally between girls and boys. One of the observations showed that the girls were more active than the boys, but this was contradicted by the results of the study as a whole. The study also includes interviews with two teachers, one from each school.