Könsrelaterade mönster i arbetslivet : En jämförande studie mellan kvinnliga arbetstagare inom handeln och akademin

Sammanfattning:

The Swedish labour market seems to be more gender equal today than what it has been before. A gender equality intervention as the practice of an equality plan is one of the strategies that have been used in the workplace to achieve equality. This study aims to examine women’s work experiences in purpose to identify gender patterns in working life in a comparison between the trading industry and the academy. Central aspects in this paper concerns opportunities for development, space in the workplace and expectations associated to gender. Chosen previous research contains studies about equality in the academy and a report about female co-workers labour standards within the trading industry. Furthermore chosen studies show that some qualities are associated to gender and also how occupations are gendered. The theories that has been used to interpret and understand the empirical material is symbolical interactionism and Hirdman’s theories about gender. This study is based on qualitative interviews with four women from the trading industry and five women from the academy. The result indicates that it is possible to distinguish gendered patterns in both trades. The patterns are expressed in different ways but can to a certain extent be related to each other.