The basic concept of the thesis is an analysis of a TV programme "Q" broadcasted by the Czech Television. The programme surveys queer subculture not only in the Czech Republic but also abroad, deals with searching for identities across the genders and disrupts conventions stemming from values of the heteronormative society. The programme title refers directly to the concept of queer, which represents a social phenomenon bringing about gender and sexual diversity and plurality. The thesis looks at the genesis of the programme from its origins, to its production, its broadcasting and finally its cancellation and replacing with another format. The motivation and reasons of the production team and the management for carrying the programme through and including it in the broadcast programming is discussed here, as well as the related decision-making processes and production mechanisms or the way the authors use feminist theories and gender aspects in the programme. The thesis also takes into consideration the long-term development of the programme's ratings. The main working method is qualitative research in the form of semi-structured interviews with the programme's authors. In terms of media production the thesis deals with organizational practices in the programme's production.

Este trabajo de investigación está orientado a organizar de manera sistemática las diferentes investigaciones que analizan la relación entre la diversidad de género en las juntas de directorio y el impacto que tiene en el desempeño financiero empresarial. El alcance de los argumentos que se exponen se basa en experiencias y datos de las diferentes industrias a nivel global sustentadas en el estudio de conceptos claves sobre diversidad de género, en los estereotipos que lo etiquetan y en las medidas internacionales que cada país adopta para incentivar la cuota femenina en las organizaciones. El estudio de indicadores financieros ayudó a la investigación a medir el impacto de la gestión de las directoras en el desempeño empresarial. En torno a ello, se encontraron posturas controversiales entre autores expertos en el tema, quienes destacan que los atributos, estilos y perfiles de las mujeres son fundamentales para determinar los beneficios o atajos que implica tener líderes mujeres en el directorio más aún en el mundo globalizado actual, pues este fenómeno obliga a las empresas a ser cada vez más competitivas para adaptarse con facilidad a un mercado constantemente cambiante. / This research paper explains the analysis of gender diversity in board of directors and its impact on corporate financial performance. The scope of the arguments presented is based on experiences and data from different industries at a global level based on the study of key concepts on gender diversity, on the stereotypes that label it and on the international measures that each country adopts to encourage the female quota in organizations. The financial indicators study helped the research measure the impact of women directors ' management on business performance. Around it, were found postures controversial among authors experts in the subject, who stand-out attributes, styles, and profiles of women are fundamental to determine the benefits or shortcuts that can bring the having women leaders in the directory even more in the globalized world in which we find ourselves, therefore, this phenomenon requires companies to be increasingly competitive to be easily adapted to a constantly changing market. / Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional

More companies have responded to the call for action, increasing their attention to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Corporate governance structures have proven to have an effect on how well companies are able to facilitate a sustainable trajectory, all influenced by values and norms. Sweden is part of what many views as the ‘next supermodel’ regarding social welfare and sustainability awareness based on a collectivist mindset. In contrast, the US fundamentally believes in the American dream of free enterprise, which has resulted in a more shareholder oriented view.   This study aims to research whether board composition mechanisms such as board gender diversity, board independence, inclusion and CEO duality impact the CSR initiatives, measured through ESG score, of Swedish and US Large Cap companies listed on OMXS and S&P 100. Moreover, it strives to investigate plausible reasons for differences between Sweden with the Nordic corporate governance model and the tier-1 model corporate governance model the US have. Even if ESG is a well-studied area, previous research does not find any consensus since earlier studies find negative, positive and non-significant results. Furthermore, many studies tend not to go beyond firm-level factors and overlook country-level factors such as national culture.   The study consists of 165 Large Cap companies, where 83 are Swedish and 82 are from the US. The chosen research method is quantitative, based on unbalanced panel data from 2020-2022. ESG score is used as the dependent variable, and the independent variables are the proportion of women board of directors, the critical mass of women directors, the proportion of independent directors, inclusion and CEO duality. The control variables consist of board size, asset size, return on assets, leverage, board-specific skills, and the number of employees. To control for country-level factors, GDP is applied. The regression also applies fixed effects for year and sector.   The data analyses are done with two robust and one standard GLS model with random effects, where the regression analyses are divided into two parts. Part I combines Swedish and US Large Cap companies, and Part II separates the two countries. The results for Part I show no significant relationship between ESG score and either board gender diversity, the critical mass, inclusion or CEO duality. The degree of board independence shows a significant positive effect on ESG scores. Part II conveys that there are fundamental differences between Sweden and the US. For example, while board independence shows a significant positive relationship in Sweden, it presents a non-significant negative relationship in the US. In addition, GDP shows significance in both models indicating that country-level factors matter, and it is evident that the explanatory power of the regressions differ. Thus, it is evermore likely that other factors, such as national culture, potentially impact companies’ corporate social responsibility.

Zweigendernde Diskurse bilden die Basis für den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Intergeschlechtlichkeit auf den Ebenen der Medizin, des Rechts, der Politik und in großen Teilen der Wissenschaft. Inter* Personen und ihre Organisationen kritisieren seit langem die hieraus entstehenden Diskriminierungen und Pathologisierungen. Auch Gremien der Europäischen Union, wie der Ethikrat, mahnen Deutschland wiederholt für den rechtlichen und medizinischen Umgang mit inter* Personen ab. Die deutsche Bundesregierung kündigt in ihrem Koalitionsvertrag von 2018 ein Verbot von nicht konsensualen Operationen an intergeschlechtlichen Minderjährigen an. Sie hat zum Januar 2019 aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Bundesverfassungsgerichts einen dritten optionalen Personenstand divers für intergeschlechtliche Personen eingeführt. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Diskrepanzen zwischen Denk- und Handlungsweisen, denen der hegemonialen Geschlechterdiskurs zugrundeliegt, auf der einen und Diskursen geschlechtlicher Vielfalt sowie den Einstellungen und Forderungen der Inter*Bewegungen auf der anderen Seite. Zudem werden die Wechselwirkungen der Diskursebenen Medizin, Recht, Politik und Wissenschaft herausgearbeitet. Hierzu werden Gesetze, Antidis-kriminierungsrichtlinien, medizinwissenschaftliche Theorien und Vorgehensweisen sowie Ansätze aus Psychologie, Bildungs- und Beratungsarbeit untersucht. (Post)identitäts- und bündnispolitische Strategien und Aspekte der Biopolitik werden im Kontext von Anpassung und Widerstand analysiert. Darüber hinaus wird die Verwobenheit struktureller Diskrimini-erungsformen einbezogen. Partizipative intersektionale Forschungsansätze werden im Zusammenhang mit Intergeschlechtlichkeit aufgezeigt. Die Arbeit hat das Ziel, herauszuarbeiten, welche Denk- und Handlungsoptionen Diskurse geschlechtlicher Vielfalt zukünftig bestärken können, und wie Forderungen von Inter*Be-wegungen sowie menschenrechtliche, antipathologisierende und antidiskriminierende Aspekte hierbei beachtet werden können. / Discourses about gender binary form the basis for the social interaction with intersex on the levels of medicine, law, politics and in large parts of science. Inter*persons and their organizations have long criticized the resulting discrimination and pathologies. In addition, committees of the European Union, as the Ethics Council, remind Germany repeatedly for the legal and medical dealing with inter*persons. The German government announced in its coalition agreement of 2018 a ban on non-consensual operations on intersex minors. In January 2019, it introduced a third optional civil status divers for intersex persons on the basis of a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court. The present thesis investigates the discrepancies between modes of thinking and acting that underlie the hegemonic gender discourse, discourses of gender diversity, and the attitudes and demands of the inter*movements. In addition, the interactions of the disciplines of medicine, law, politics and science are worked out. For this purpose, laws, anti-discrimination guidelines, medical science theories and approaches as well as approaches from psychology, education and consulting work are examined. (Post) identity and alliance policies and aspects of biopolitics are analyzed in the context of adaptation and resistance. Furthermore, it includes the interweaving of structural forms of discrimination. Participatory intersectional research approaches are presented in the context of intersex. The aim of the paper is to work out which options for thought and action can encourage discourses of gender diversity in future, and how demands of inter*movements as well as human rights, antipathologizing and anti-discriminatory aspects can be considered.

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[pt] Este estudo objetiva mapear e analisar os casos de violências contra a diversidade sexual e de gênero registrados através de Boletins de Ocorrências (B.Os.) em delegacias da Secretaria de Segurança Pública do Estado de Sergipe (SSP/SE) entre os anos de 2015 e 2018, verificando de que forma esses tipos de violência se apresentam na realidade sergipana, como são notificados e encaminhados pela Polícia Civil. O mapeamento foi realizado no sistema da intranet da SSP/SE com a utilização de 32 palavras-chave que serviram como fonte de busca, onde foram encontradas 5.100 denúncias oficiais notificadas em 71 delegacias (especializadas e não especializadas) da SSP/SE. Após o processo de triagem e filtragem dos dados, foram selecionados 305 B.Os. com violências de caráter homofóbico, transfóbico e homotransfóbico. O caminho metodológico utilizado pautou-se em uma análise quali-quantitativa, descritiva e documental centrada teoricamente nos conceitos de habitus, campo e capital de Pierre Bourdieu e em autores que discutem violência homotransfóbica, segurança pública e diversidade sexual e de gênero. Como resultados, observa-se que a maioria das denúncias aqui analisadas foi notificada em delegacias especializadas, apresentando 9 tipos diferenciados de opressão interseccionais, a saber: sexismo, aporofobia, racismo, sorofobia, gordofobia, preconceito contra pessoas com deficiência, ageísmo e xenofobia. Na grande maioria dos casos, a violência é reincidente de diversas tipologias e provoca graves consequências em suas vítimas e noticiantes não vítimas, atingindo a todos os agentes sociais, independentemente de sua orientação sexual, identidade de gênero características sexuais e/ou expressões de gênero. A homotransfobia é reproduzida socialmente através do habitus cis-heteronormativo sócio-historicamente construído, só podendo ser desconstruída quando vista como um problema de caráter social que demanda de todos o papel de protagonistas neste processo, demonstrando a necessidade de mudanças para muito além do que se pode operar, a partir de políticas de segurança pública. / [en] This study aims to map and analyze cases of targeted and gender diversified violence recorded through the police reports of the State Public Security Service (SSP/SE) of the State of Sergipe between the years of 2015 and 2018, verifying how these types of violence present themselves in Sergipe s reality and how they are notified and forwarded by the civil police. The mapping was carried out on the SSP / SE intranet system with the use of 32 keywords that served as a search source, where 5100 official complaints were found in 71 SSP / SE police stations (specialized and non-specialized). After sorting and filtering the data, 305 police reports with homophobic, transphobic and homotransphobic character were selected. The methodological approach used was based on a qualitative-quantitative, descriptive and documentary analysis theoretically centered on the concepts of habitus, field and capital by Pierre Bourdieu and on authors who discuss homotransphobic violence, public security and sexual and gender diversity. As a result, it was observed that most of the complaints here analyzed were notified in specialized police stations, presenting 9 different types of intersectional oppression as: sexism, aporophobia, racism, serophobia, fatphobia, ableism, ageism and xenophobia. In the vast majority of cases, violence is recurrent, occurs in several different forms and causes serious consequences for its victims and non-victim denouncers, affecting all social agents regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or sexual characteristics. Homotransphobia is socially reproduced through the sociohistorically constructed cisheteronormative habitus, which can only be deconstructed when viewed as a social problem which demands everyone s role as protagonists in this process, demonstrating the need for changes far beyond of what can be operated from public security policies.

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[pt] Mais do que um ambiente de aprendizagem acadêmica, a escola é também espaço onde as e os jovens se desenvolvem comportamental, emocional e cognitivamente e estabelecem relacionamentos sociais positivos. Atitudes preconceituosas, como a homofobia e a misoginia, vão de encontro com os objetivos educacionais e impactam negativamente no aspecto relacional que compõe o clima escolar. A presente pesquisa busca compreender este impacto através de um estudo sobre as relações existentes entre climas escolares distintos com ambientes menos ou mais preconceituosos em relação à diversidade sexual e de gênero. Para cumprir estes objetivos, traçamos um desenho de investigação quantitativo a partir das respostas de estudantes a dois questionários. O primeiro, inserido em uma pesquisa maior sobre preconceito, forneceu dados sobre as atitudes contra a diversidade sexual e de gênero na visão de estudantes do sétimo ano de dez escolas públicas localizadas no município do Rio de Janeiro. A partir destes dados, selecionamos duas escolas com posicionamentos distintos, a Escola Iracema e a Escola Hora da Estrela, e aplicamos um segundo questionário, dessa vez voltado para todo o segundo segmento do Ensino Fundamental, com questões acerca do clima da escola, além de mais itens sobre preconceito em relação à diversidade sexual e de gênero. A partir da elaboração de índices, observamos que apesar de estarem geograficamente próximas e possuírem um corpo discente social e culturalmente parecido, oriundo dos mesmos bairros do entorno, as duas escolas possuem diferenças marcadamente significativas em relação ao clima e às visões e atitudes preconceituosas: as alunas e os alunos da Escola Iracema percebem um clima escolar menos positivo e indicam apresentar pensamentos mais preconceituosos contra a diversidade sexual e de gênero do que as e os estudantes da Escola Hora da Estrela. Observamos que as visões preconceituosas quanto à diversidade sexual e de gênero das e dos estudantes se associam positivamente com o bom relacionamento com seus pares e negativamente com: (i) a percepção do respeito à diversidade pela comunidade escolar; (ii) a compreensão do papel da gestão na resolução dos conflitos escolares; (iii) o comportamento e os sentimentos de engajamento e pertencimento na escola e (iv) a violência sofrida por bullying. Conclui-se que um ambiente escolar marcado por um clima mais positivo pode apresentar, ao mesmo tempo, estudantes menos misóginos e homofóbicos. / [en] More than an academic learning environment, the school is also a place where young people develop behaviorally, emotionally and cognitively and form positive social relationships. Prejudiced attitudes such as homophobia and misogyny are opposed to educational goals and negatively impact the school climate relational aspect. This research aimed to understand this impact through the relationships between different school climates with less or more prejudiced environments in terms to sexual and gender diversity. To fulfill these goals, we draw a quantitative research design from student responses to two surveys. The first, integrating a larger research on prejudice, provided data on attitudes against sexual and gender diversity in the view of 7th grade students from ten Rio de Janeiro city public schools. From these data, we selected two schools with different positions, Iracema School and Hora da Estrela School, and applied a second questionnaire, this time focused on the entire second segment of elementary school, with questions about the school climate, and more items on prejudice against sexual and gender diversity. Despite geographically close and with socially and culturally similar student configuration, coming from the same neighborhoods, the two schools have markedly significant differences in relation to its school climate and prejudiced views and attitudes: from the established indices, it is concluded that Iracema School students perceive a less positive school climate whereas indicate more prejudiced thoughts against sexual and gender diversity than Hora da Estrela School students. We observed that the prejudiced students’ views regarding sexual and gender diversity are positively associated with good peer relationships and negatively associated with: (i) the perception of respect for diversity by the school community; (ii) the school management role on conflict resolution; (iii) the behavior and the feelings of engagement and belonging at school and (iv) the peer victimization through bullying. It is concluded that a school environment marked by a more positive climate can have, at the same time, less misogynist and homophobic students.

The relationship between disclosure about sustainability, financial performance, andcorporate governance deserves more attention in the modern business environment. Thisthesis investigates the complex variations in this relationship in the case of Swedish listedcompanies. This study intends to provide insight on the mechanisms by which governancestructures influence the financial consequences of sustainability initiatives byinvestigating how corporate governance functions as a mediator between sustainabilitydisclosure and financial performance. Utilizing data from the NASDAQ Stockholm via the REFINITIV EIKON Database, thestudy investigates the implicit impact of corporate governance components such as boardgender diversity and CEO-Chairman duality on determining the relationship betweensustainability practices and financial performance. The study's systematic search strategyand methodical analysis aim to provide significant insights for companies, investors, andregulators on how to use governance frameworks to generate sustainable andadvantageous business models. This study contributes to the broader conversation on corporate sustainability andgovernance practices by addressing a knowledge gap about how governance structuresregulate the relationship between sustainability disclosure and financial performance. Thefindings are meant to inspire stakeholders about the crucial role that governance plays inpromoting sustainable business practices in the Swedish corporate landscape, as well as tohave practical implications for companies looking to enhance their financial performanceand sustainability strategies.

No / This paper seeks to contribute to the existing business strategy and the environment literature by examining the effect of governance structures on environmental performance within a unique context of improving environmental governance, policies, regulations and management. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which corporate board gender diversity, including the proportion, age and level of education of female directors, affect environmental performance of Chinese publicly listed corporations. Using one of the largest Chinese datasets to-date, consisting of a sample of 383 listed A-shares from 2011 to 2015 (i.e., observations of 1,674), our findings are three-fold. First, we find that the proportion and age of female directors have a positive effect on the overall corporate environmental performance. Second, our findings indicate that the proportion and age of female directors also have a positive effect on the three individual environmental performance components, namely environmental (i) strategy, (ii) implementation and (iii) disclosure, respectively. Finally, and by contrast, we do not find any evidence that suggests that the level of education of female directors has any impact on environmental performance, neither the overall environmental performance measure nor its individual components. Our findings have important implication for regulators and policy-makers. Our evidence is robust to controlling for alternative measures, other governance and firm-level control variables, and possible endogeneities. We interpret our findings within a multi-theoretical framework that draws insights from agency, legitimacy, neo-institutional, resource dependence, stakeholder, and tokenism theoretical perspectives.