Sökning: "gendered master status"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden gendered master status.

  1. 1. “They are being made into like baby-making machines” : a study of the impact of gender structures and norms on family planning for Xhosa women in rural Zithulele, South Africa

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Hannah Hölscher; [2020]
    Nyckelord :gender norms; gender roles; family planning; South Africa; rural; sexual health and reproductive rights; structural determinants of health; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Women in rural areas of South Africa battle with many structural issues, including unemployment, education and accessibility to health services, greatly delimiting family planning. However, socially constructed and internalized gender norms pose an additional and potentially greater barrier to family planning in traditional and patriarchal settings. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Gendered Empowerment? A Case Study of iDE's Women's Economic Empowerment Model in Gimbuchu, Oromia, Ethiopia

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Rebecca Merrifield; [2019]
    Nyckelord :women’s empowerment; gender equity; power relations; gender norms; feminism; Ethiopia; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : As empowerment retains its status as a buzzword among international development agencies, it has lost its essential element – power – intended to highlight the unequal structures and relations allowing disempowerment. Nonetheless, it has proliferated in the discourse and practice of women’s empowerment, as gender equity has become an important cross-cutting issue for many organizations and governments. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Sliding into a Gendered Division of Labour

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Författare :Selina Furgler; [2019]
    Nyckelord :division of labour; gender equality; family policy; couples’ decision-making; gendered master status; transition to parenthood; part-time work; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : In Switzerland the one-and-a-half-earner model where the father is the primary wage-earner working full-time and the woman is the secondary wage-earner working part-time while taking over the majority of care and housework responsibilities is predominant. This is discussed criti-cally as the normative and institutional context incentivises parents to adopt a division of labour that disadvantages women in terms of economic vulnerability and social recognition. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Petticoats or Miniskirts: A Comparative Analysis of Feminine Narration in Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary 

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Ida Jonsson; [2018]
    Nyckelord :feminine narration; Austen; Fielding; Chick Lit; authority; feminism; feminist narratology;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract Both Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) and Bridget Jones’s Diary (Helen Fielding) have been thoroughly examined by literary critics. When discussed from a feminist perspective, critics are ambiguous as some claim that the novels work against feminist values rather than the reverse. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gendered aspirations and realities- Enactment of agency by Syrian adolescent girls in the displacement situation in Bekaa, Lebanon

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Sofia Jagbrant; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Displacement; refugee; Syria; Lebanon; adolescence; gender; agency; youth; honour; teenagers; Middle East; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this qualitative study was to add to the understanding on how structural elements of gender shape identity and agency of Syrian adolescence girls in the current displacement situation in Lebanon. The thesis was primary based on findings from interviews and focus groups with Syrian displaced girls in the age of 14 enrolled in a school in the region of Bekaa, east of Lebanon. LÄS MER