Previous research on empowerment of women has tried to show a correlation between empowerment and a reduction of gender-based violence. Some studies confirm that correlation and it is argued that especially economic empowerment is key to such a correlation. However, the correlation based on economic empowerment is disputed, and some scholars argue that economic empowerment is not sufficient to tackle structural issues based on power inequalities, such as gender-based violence. This study will build on the latter argument in the debate of empowerment, and will use the case of post-conflict Liberia to support this discussion. In post-conflict Liberia, significant efforts to empower women have been made and yet, high levels of gender-based violence remain. By examining two official policy documents directed toward reduction of gender-based violence and enhancement of women’s empowerment, this thesis concludes that there is a lack of recognition of gender relations structured around an unequal distribution of power, in the two documents. The study will therefore end with the argument that in order to create empowerment of women that reduce issues such as gender-based violence, strategies to enhance women’s empowerment need to account for gender relations based on power dynamics.

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Stig Montin say in a study of the implementation of New Public Management (NPM) from 1997 that the subject to studie regarding NPM is the effects the leadership has on the organisations. Therefore in this essay we are looking in to the implementation of NPM in a Swedish and a Norwegian township. The purpose if the study is to see if and how NPM hade influents the policy document regarding leadership. Too our help we are going to look in to the spreading in the chosen townships, which parts of NPM are implemented in the policy documents regarding leadership and is the influences different between the chosen townships? We are doing a comparative studies with two cases. To our help we are using policy documents from Eskilstuna in Sweden and from Skien in Norway. The conclusion of the studies is that NPM has made a big influence of the policy making in both Eskilstuna and Skien and that the recommended leadership from both townships suggest the they want leaders that works from NPMs ground points regarding results and effectivity.

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Denna studie kombinerar kvantitativt och kvalitativt datainsamlande för att genom en fallstudie jämföra hur pojkar och flickor på gymnasiet bedömer sina egna kunskaper inom samhällskunskap med vad de får i betyg. Resultatet visar att flickor får högre betyg och gör en mer korrekt bedömning av sina kunskaper sett till deras betygsnivå. Både kön såväl som betyg verkar påverka elevernas förmåga till korrekt egenbedömning men hur de samverkar är inte tydligt från resultatet i denna studie utan ett område för vidare forskning. Vidare visar empirin även att eleverna är nöjda med de kontextuella faktorerna på skolan så som lokaler, lärarstöd samt klasskamrater.