Från könsstereotyper till strukturella hinder. : En kvalitativ studie om könsskillnader på arbetsplatser och dess påverkan på unga kvinnors arbetsliv

Sammanfattning: This qualitative study highlights young women's own experiences and how gender roles, gender stereotypes and gender differences affect them in their workplace. This study includes 8 women respondents' own experiences, but also how they have been affected in their workplace. In this study, we have limited ourselves to women aged 25-30 who work in larger cities in Sweden. This study has been analyzed using a qualitative method, with a hermeneutic analysis. Scientific articles have also been a background for analysis of the results of interviews. Theories and concepts such as norms, habitus, sex and gender, have been an asset for a sociological analysis of the results. These theories and concepts explain how the respondents' own experiences about gender roles, gender stereotypes and gender differences has affected them in their workplace. Therefore this study is only a study that explains individual perceptions and not the objective truth. The analysis of the results in this study display how young women have been affected by both gender roles, gender stereotypes and gender differences in their workplace. The study reveals how they apprehend themselves according to how norms have been created based on their gender, and hence formed gender roles in their workplace but also in society.