Search results for "Gender roles"
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Familias reconstituidas: el cuestionamiento de los roles tradicionales parentales encarnados en las madres y las madrastras
2019
What is your couple type? Gender ideology, housework and babies
2014
This paper examines the consistency between gender equality in opinions and attitudes and equality in the division of household labor by building a typology of respondents that combines two indexes for two dimensions of gender equality. The typology identifies four types of couples: gender unequal attitudes and gender unequal housework sharing, gender equal attitudes and gender unequal housework sharing, gender unequal attitudes and gender equal housework sharing, gender equal attitudes and gender equal housework sharing. We assess the impact of the typology on the likelihood of a new childbirth, using two-wave panel data of the Bulgarian, French and Hungarian Generations and Gender Surveys…
“I feel many contradictory emotions” : Finnish mothers' discursive struggles with motherhood
2022
Objective The aim of the study was to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of multiple aspects of working with mothers by examining Finnish mothers' mothering discourses and the interplay among these discourses. Background According to relational dialectics theory, discourses are systems of meaning that are coproduced in interaction. Although discursive research on motherhood has identified various discourses, research on the interplay among competing motherhood discourses is in its infancy. Method Qualitative questionnaire data from 479 Finnish mothers of infants were analyzed using contrapuntal analysis. Mothers' responses to three open-ended questions were analyzed inductively…
Microfinance and women empowerment : to what extent has access to loans led to a change in gender responsibilities at the household level: a case stu…
2014
Master thesis in development management - University of Agder 2014 Microfinance has been recognized internationally as a great strategy in promoting women’s empowerment. Currently development practitioners, international donors, policy makers, Governments, and Non-governmental organizations have introduced microfinance programs to reach out with financial services to the low-income earners, especially women. This is based on the conception that women have better repayment records and also if credit is placed in women’s hands, it leads to improvement in the wellbeing of entire household. This study therefore aimed at assessing the extent to which access to loans by women can lead to a change…
Kaksi maailmaa? : sukupuoli Mika Waltarin kirjailijakuvassa, teksteissä ja niiden vastaanotossa 1925-1939
2013
”Siellä missä miehiä tehdään” – Mika Waltarin nuoruuden tuotanto ja sen vastaanotto sukupuolten rakentamisen paikkoina
2013
Arvio teoksesta Järvelä, Juha: Waltari ja sukupuolten maailmat. Helsinki: Avain. 2013. 265 s.
Kaunokirjallisuus ja siitä käydyt keskustelut sukupuolihistorian lähteenä: Lectio praecursoria 13.6.2013
2013
Juha Järvelän Suomen historian väitöskirja Kaksi maailmaa? Sukupuoli Mika Waltarin kirjailijakuvassa, teksteissä ja niiden vastaanotossa 1925–1939 tarkastettiin 13.6.2013 Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Vastaväittäjänä toimi dosentti Maarit Leskelä-Kärki Turun yliopistosta ja kustoksena professori Kustaa H.J. Vilkuna Jyväskylän yliopistosta.