Enligt agenda 2030 är jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män en förutsättningför en hållbar och fredlig utveckling. Mycket arbete pågår i politiken och i samhället men olika rapporter och undersökningar visar att det är en lång väg kvar innan vi når målen för jämställdhet. Forskning visar att den kultur som råder i samhället påverkas av rådande normer och värderingar och att dessa i sin tur också bidrar till konstruktionen av kön och därmed att synen på jämställdhet bibehålls. Media har en roll i att både konstruera och rekonstruera normer och värderingar. I den här studien undersöks om en stor medialhändelse som #metoo kan påverka rådande normer och värderingar i samhället. Detta görs genom att undersöka om och hur svensk affärsmedia har förändrat sitt sätt att konstruera genus vad gäller män och kvinnor som ledare i svenskt affärsliv efter att #metoo briserade 2017. I studien används Faircloughs tredimensionella modell som analysverktyg samt som teoretisk och metodologisk utgångspunkt. Det är en replikeringsstudie som utgår från Gottfridsson och Raanaes C-uppsats från 2015, som sedermera blev utvecklad till en vetenskaplig artikel ”The boss and daddys´s little girl: on the construction of gender in Swedish business media” (Hansson, Gottfridsson & Raanaes, 2019). Analys och resultat från denna studie visar att det skett förändringar i hur media konstruerar män och kvinnor som ledare före och efter #metoo. Män som ledare ifrågasätts och görs ansvariga i sina handlingar i flera fall än innan #metoo och kvinnor som ledare beskrivs i flera fall med mer fokus på företaget och inte lika mycket på person. Analysen ger inte ett entydigt svar på om förändringen beror på #metoo. Studien visar att trots att det skett en förändring i hur män och kvinnor beskrivs som ledare har det ännu inte påverkat så mycket i praktiken.

Trots lagliga föreskrifter och tydliga forskningsresultat är problemet med sexuella trakasserier utbrett inom arbetslivet. Utifrån ett senmodernt perspektiv belyser studien hur sexuella trakasserier kan förstås och diskuteras. Studien syftar till att undersöka hur sexuella trakasserier visar sig i arbetslivet genom berättelserna i metoo-uppropen. Arbetet har en induktiv ansats och använder kvalitativ innehållsanalys som metod. Resultatet mynnar ut i fem teman som alla berör gränser på olika sätt: Förlängning av fritiden, Skämten och skratten, Handlingsutrymme, Ansvarsfrågan samt Sexuella trakasserier - Begreppets gränser. Studiens slutsatser visar bland annat på att diskussionen och definitionen av vad som är sexuella trakasserier måste förtydligas. Det är därmed arbetsgivarens ansvar att se till att detta implementeras på arbetsplatsen.

In this bachelor’s thesis we intend to investigate how masculine stereotypes are presented in four commercials before versus after #metoo. The purpose is to examine whether and in what way the masculine stereotypes have changed in our selected commercials presentation in accordance with cultural change. We intend to examine how representations relate to the context of social changes, the changing view of masculinity and masculine normative stereotypes.The analysis is performed with a multimodal analysis. The focus is on semiotics and its constituents. Since the thesis uses qualitative analysis, we have chosen to focus on those parts of the material that can be interpreted semiotically in order to gain a deeper understanding of its connection to social change in accordance with our theories. The studys results show that the four commercials we examined show a change before versus after #metoo. This change is in accordance with cultural studies. Hegemonic masculinity theory further explains how the new masculinity is presented in the later commercials. Furthermore, we ask ourselves whether the changes is made out of goodwill or to surf on a wave of political correctness.

Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze and find explanations in literature for the gender-controlled dynamics contained in the selected quotations, using the theoretical starting points of the essay and under the theme power structures between men and women. The analysis draws of theories of gender, feminism, power and underlying linguistic factors that make, and in what way, the message reach the reader. The study has focused on three excerpts from the books of Margareta Strömstedt Jag skulle så gärna vilja förföra dig – men jag orkar inte (I would love to seduce you - but I can't cope) and Natten innan de hängde Ruth Ellis och andra berättelser ur mitt liv (The nigth before hanging Ruth Ellis and other stories from my life), and an excerpt from the book Klubben (The Club) of Matilda Gustavsson. The analysis explores texts that describe sexual assaults and reveals positions of power and male dominance. Not only male physical violence, even social norms and social power relations prevent women from resistance. The texts express female frustration and discontent about having to accept being an object of male dominance.

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One of the major debates in Swedish politics today is violence in close relationships and against women and children. The debate has grown stronger since 2017 when Me Too revolutionized the world. This study is analyzed from a structural perspective, where Me Too is a social movement and whether it has influenced or somehow changed the criminal policy of Vänsterpartiet and Moderaterna. The focus will lay on sexual crimes. The study intends to analyze the parties' criminal policy with a focus on sexual crime issues between the years 2013 to 2020 to see if Me Too after 2017 has created change. For this study, selected motions have been taken from the parliament website and presented in an analysis. That material also accounts for the central parts of this study. As a theory for this thesis, the structure and actor model will apply. Here, Me Too stands as structure and the parties as actors. With the help of the model, the outcome of the policy should be studied over time. The structure and actors model is applied in the results in the analysis of the parties' motions. The study will seek answers to two questions. These two are, What are the similarities and differences between the criminal policy of Vänsterpartiet and Moderaterna when it comes to sexual crimes.  As a concluding discussion question, the study tries to develop whether the social movement Me Too has made any impact on the parties' criminal policy regarding sexual crimes. The conclusion of this study is that the parties differ as Vänsterpartiet is based on a feminist ideology and wants to see old norms and social structures in the form of patriarchy broken. Moderates including the debate as an integration problem. They both agree that Me Too has created change for women both in Sweden and worldwide and helped direct the spotlight on this societal problem. / <p>Utveckla de valda partiets ideologier och motivera den valda metoden. </p>

Thesis advisor: Alyssa Goldman / This study analyzes the narratives that emerged in the news media’s coverage of violent crimes against women during the #MeToo Movement. Additionally, it seeks to uncover if and how news media crime coverage differed based on the race of defendants. I conduct a content analysis of the news media coverage of the criminal cases State of Michigan v. Lawrence Gerard Nassar and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. during the #MeToo Movement. I find that news media coverage of violent crimes against women typically exhibits an inverse relationship in which supportive portrayals of victims predict unsupportive portrayals of defendants, and vice versa. I also find some evidence to suggest that Black male defendants receive more lenient news media coverage than white male defendants. The results of this study demonstrate the power of social movements in influencing criminal justice outcomes and the news media’s role in shaping public opinion on criminal cases. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2021. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Sociology.

The #MeToo movement was established as a grassroots initiative in Brooklyn by Tarana Burke, as a way to bring awareness to the commonality of sexual violence towards African American women. Despite the awareness brought by the movement, it was virtually not inclusive of men who have experienced sexual violence. This study intends to provide educators an understanding of this phenomenon, as well as provide practitioners, scholars, and organizations supporting gay male rape survivors a qualitative perspective beneficial to enhance support systems in order to foster post-traumatic growth. This study answered questions of how participants described their experience of having been raped; how learning revealed itself during the participants’ journey towards post-traumatic growth; and what factors participants described that helped and/or hindered their ability to manage the experience, learn, and develop towards post-traumatic growth. Six individual in-depth cases are presented; each participating in a two-hour interview. Using Lifelines and Nohl’s (2015) five phase analysis of the unfolding of deep learning over time, this study demonstrated that Transformative Learning revealed itself throughout each of these cases. As described by O’Sullivan et al. (2002), Transformative learning is “[an] experiencing [of] a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feeling, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race, and gender; our body-awareness; our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of the possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy.” The study provides insight into the various systems and social relationships that help and/or hinder the interviewees’ learning experience, as well as how they managed their lives along the way. Moreover, this study demonstrates that Transformative Learning can take over 20-years, as well as that the process requires recalibration after encountering obstacles as learners journeyed towards post-traumatic growth.

Thesis advisor: Holly B. Fontenot / Sexual assault is a national public health problem, yet there is a dearth of information about how and why survivors disclose and obtain post sexual assault healthcare in the era of social media campaigns. This study examined the influence of #MeToo on sexual assault survivors’ decision-making post assault, including formal disclosures to health providers and formal health seeking behaviors. The research question is “what are the patterns of sexual assault survivors’ disclosure and health seeking behaviors in the era of #MeToo?” A qualitative, exploratory descriptive study was undertaken to understand the influence of #MeToo on a survivor’s decision to disclose sexual assault and obtain health care. With the use of online focus groups, 56 participants’ stories were shared, and four salient themes emerged. These results were the first to provide insight into how an online social media movement (#MeToo) influenced offline health behaviors. The knowledge gained from this study advanced nursing science focused on the care of sexual assault survivors. Additionally, findings informed intervention strategies such as developing targeted public health campaigns that capitalize on online social movements to impact offline behaviors. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing. / Discipline: Nursing.

Sexual harassments and conflicts among students are problems both within and outside schools. This became clear in conjunction with the #metoo -call that started 2017 when the whole world became engaged in this question. Although schools do work with these questions, a report made by Skolverket (2017) states that there is a lot to improve. Lack of teachers know how and lack of continuously contributions are two of the things that have to be improved to gain long time skills for the students.Two of our aims in the Swedish school curriculum are to provide good learning opportunities and to ensure that no one should be discriminated due to their sex, ethnicity or religion. The ordinary teachers sometimes find it hard to reach their students and achieve necessary changes to avoid these kinds of discriminations. Therefor some schools use external educators as a complement. In this study I present the results from interviews with four external educators in sexuality education in school. One of my questions is what they focus on during their sessions with teachers and students to get a picture of how the content connects to the curriculum. Another question is what experiences the external educators have from working with schools to increase the competence of teachers. Many reports make the conclusion that the work with students, to provide a better social climate in school, needs to be done by many actors during time. This study is no exception. The external educators that I have interviewed often only met the teachers one time so they could not say anything about what long term impact they have made. First of all, it became very clear in this study, that the principals are one of the most important persons in the work to reach the goals in the curriculum. Secondly, despite the content in curriculum and reports of what has to be done in schools and the ambitions of teachers there are still differences in this part of the education for students and the use of the competence of external educators are used rather randomly.