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Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka Jämställdhetsmyndighetens styrdokument. Undersökningen görs på två sätt, och de svarar mot var sin frågeställning: det ena är en diskursanalys, som utgår från Ernesto Laclau och Chantal Mouffes diskursteori och begrepp. Den ska svara på frågan om vilka diskursiva begrepp som används i styrdokumentet. Det andra är Carol Bacchi’s sex frågor, som används för att analysera policydokument. Metoden kallas What’s the problem represented to be, WPR-metoden. WPR-metoden svarar på frågan om vad styrdokumentets problembeskrivning leder till. En kort sammanfattning av resultaten kan vara: de viktigaste diskursiva begreppen som används av Jämställdhetsmyndighetens styrdokument, är ”jämställdhet”, ”mäns våld mot kvinnor”, könen ”kvinna” och ”man”. Och styrdokumentets problembeskrivning leder till ett jämställdhetsarbete i myndigheter som kallas för jämställdhetsintegrering.

This thesis aims to provide a deeper understanding of the collaboration process between different authorities and organizations. The empirical example that the study is based on, is violence prevention work that aims to reduce men's violence against women. Of interest is where the focus is in the collaboration process, what function the collaboration process fulfills and what it results will be. The study uses concepts such as collaboration, collaboration theory, and system maintenance- and system changing gender equality work to answer the research questions. To answer the questions, I have interviewed three people from different authorities and organizations. Results show that the informants describe that collaboration is necessary as they are mutually dependent on each other in order to achieve their goals, according to the informants answers they largely agree with how collaboration works in theory versus practice described in collaboration theory and lastly the study conclude that the collaboration process largely results in a system-changing gender equality work.

This study investigates the discursive construction of masculinities of the Swedish Equality Agency. By using the WPR analysis strategy to examine underlying problematizations in the agency’s perspective on masculinity, the study seeks to generate an understanding of the direction in which the agency wishes masculinity to develop as a cultural phenomenon. The paper critiques that the new masculinity is primarily implicit and aims to make the new masculinity more explicit to enable proactivity. The study highlights the transition from an explicit masculinity to an implicit one and the effects of this ”implicitness”. The new masculinity is more implicit in terms of life advice, normativity, and ideals, making it more concealed and harder to follow, compared to a traditional masculinity and its values. The paper also explores the cultural ideal established by policy. The objectives primarily result in the ideals of everyone’s equal opportunities and rewards for studies and work, the sharing of household chores equally, and obtaining consent before engaging in anything that has to do with others bodily integrity. The reconstruction of masculinity can be seen as an attempt to insert cultural ideals into multiple masculinities or establish an upper masculinity, thus achieving a less polarized society. The study further explores the idea of that the current approach may be perceived to place more value on criticizing than implementing, making masculinity, like the problem of violence, reactive rather than a proactive factor. The concluding discussion suggests that masculinity is a tool, a frame of reference to relate to, and perhaps there is a need for guiding principles, commandments, and ideals to live up to. In the discussion I also suggest the implementation of the term ”submasculinity” to prevent holistic establishing and assemblage of negative aspects. The paper suggests in the concluding discussion that society can shape a new, explicit, and more identifiable masculinity and thus a meaningful, more explicit path to follow.