The thesis focuses on representation of gender inequality in Czech lifestyle magazines for men. The main research question explores the ways in which men's magazines represent the issues of gender inequality. The research method used in this thesis is qualitative content analysis by Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. The sample contains selected articles from Czech versions of the men's magazines Maxim and Esquire, covering all of 2016. The open coding process enabled labeling of the analyzed phenomena, discovering the prominent categories and their dimensions. Axial coding resulted in the reorganization of the categories, which emerged during open coding, by exploring the relationships between the categories and making connections between them. Selective coding identified the central phenomenon of the research. Male Dominance emerged as the core category, integrating the other categories - Manifestations of Gender Inequality, Men's Fear of Gender Equality and Partial Refutation of the Masculine Perspective - around the central phenomenon. The theories used as the sources of the enhancement of theoretical sensitivity are explored and presented in the theoretical part of this thesis. The research concludes that the analyzed lifestyle magazines for men spread negative gender stereotypes and...

Haiti experienced the greatest urban disaster of international history in 2010 when the county was hit by an earthquake which triggered one of the largest responses of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts ever identified. The Haitian population was harshly affected by the earthquake, killing approximately 200 000 people, injuring 300 000 and displacing over 2,3 million. Reports from the post-disaster period also revealed that gender inequalities were growing deeper and that cases of sexual based violence against women and girls increased massively. The history of Haiti shows similar patterns of discrimination and gender based violence against women and children. Research upon gender based violence in the aftermath of disaster presents that disastrous events such as an earthquake, often is followed by an increase in gender based – and sexual gender based violence. Disasters could also provide a window of opportunity for change of  traditional roles and social norms in societies where they are deeply rooted. In order to seize this opportunity disaster management needs to acknowledge and adapt to gendered needs and capacities in all stages of disaster relief efforts in order to provide these opportunities for the subordinated gender. This research is studying the responsive policies of the Haitian government in the aftermath of the earthquake 2010, presented in the Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti. The aim is to investigate if any exercises of power could be observed to have affected the increase of gender based violence and sexual gender based violence for women and children in the post-earthquake responsive period. The study will be carried out as a text-analysing, desk study and by applying the theoretical framework of Steven Lukes three-dimensional power approach and the theory of radical feminism abductively. The findings of this research presents that power exercises by the government can be observed to have affected the increase of gender based – as well as sexual gender based violence in the period of study.

Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2017-12-08T18:39:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruna_Castro_2017.pdf: 1126012 bytes, checksum: 9d6ac90d6788df3e7466f1f51e2ae2b1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-08T18:39:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruna_Castro_2017.pdf: 1126012 bytes, checksum: 9d6ac90d6788df3e7466f1f51e2ae2b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Health is relevant to economic agents, since it contributes directly to the people´s well-being, and constitutes part of human capital and, for these reason, health affects a productivity and individual´s incomes. Either individual decisions and public policies that affect health have been doing cruxcial effects on economic development, also constitute a channel for an revenue distribution policie and fight against poverty. This study analyzes the differences of health conditions of male and female workers in Brazil in 2008, using as measure the perception of health of the researched people by the supplement of PNAD (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios) of 2008. In the applied methodology, firstly was made descriptive statistical analyzis, also were estimated probit models in two stages to capture the contributions of the socioeconomic caratteristiche to the person´s health conditions occupied by sex. The main results were that women presented worst health perceptions than men in almost all socioeconomic variables analyzed. Health policies need to address the specific needs of men and women, and it is also believed that reducing gender inequality can reduce differences in health perceptions of gender. / A saúde é relevante para os agentes econômicos, uma vez que contribui diretamente para o bem-estar das pessoas, e se constitui como parte do estoque de capital humano, por essa razão, o estado de saúde afeta a produtividade e a renda dos indivíduos. As decisões individuais ou as políticas públicas que afetam a saúde têm efeitos cruciais sobre o desenvolvimento econômico e, também, constituem um canal para as políticas de distribuição de renda e combate à pobreza. Este trabalho analisa os fatores que afetam o estado de saúde entre trabalhadores do sexo feminino e masculino no Brasil em 2008, utilizando como medida a percepção de saúde dos indivíduos captada pelo suplemento da PNAD (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios) de 2008. Na metodologia aplicada primeiramente foram feitas as análises das estatísticas descritivas e, também, foram estimados modelos probit em Dois Estágios para captar as contribuições das características socioeconômicas para o estado de saúde das pessoas ocupadas por sexo. Os principais resultados foram que as mulheres apresentaram menor percepção de boa saúde do que os homens em quase todas as variáveis socioeconômicas analisadas. Portanto, é necessário que as políticas de saúde atendam às necessidades especificas de homens e mulheres, e, também, acredita-se que a redução da desigualdade de gênero pode diminuir as diferenças de percepção de saúde por sexo.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of gender inequality in China. Today, women are pressured to get married by the state and their social surroundings, as they told if they remain unmarried and have the "three highs"; high age, education and salary, they will become leftovers on the marriage market. Previous research on the concept of labelling women as "leftover" has 4 shown that labelling women as "leftover" can have several different negative impacts. In this thesis, both the theory of masculine hegemony and the theory of symbolic interaction have been used. The concept creates a hegemonic masculinity as it is a normative practice that promotes the subordination of women. However, as the concept is based on the notion that all Chinese men, or at least those of relevant social standing, would find the "three highs" undesirable, it is relevant to see how Chinese men in fact do position themselves in relation to the hegemonic masculinity on an individual level. In symbolic interaction, the concept of gender is created through social construction when people attach special meanings to the sex of a person, a process which is called "doing gender". Therefore symbolic interaction is used to see what special meaning Chinese men attach to women having the "three highs" and masculine hegemony to put their answers into a larger context. If it could be shown that Chinese men do not comply with the hegemonic masculinity, Chinese women would not have to feel obliged to adjust to the hegemonic masculinity and thereby making it easier for them to pursue higher education, high paying jobs and marrying at a later age. However, as this thesis is a qualitative study, and therefore a limited number of data subjects, the generalizability of the result should not be exaggerated. The interviews that were conducted for this thesis showed that the data subjects were familiar with the concept and that they considered it to be natural for there to be women China labelled as "leftover". Nevertheless, in relation to their own marital choices, the data subjects did not attach the negative meaning as set out by the hegemonic masculinity, a result which to some extent was confirmed by the data subjects’ experiences and other control questions. The result is interesting, and enforces Connell and MesserSchmidt’s theory, that even though a hegemonic masculinity is normative, not everyone has to comply with it. As the cornerstone of the concept is that Chinese men find women with the "three highs" undesirable, the result of the study shows that there is a need for the concept to be further examined and questioned. / 近年，性别不平等在中国又开始回潮。今天，中国女性在婚姻问题上受到来自社会的不小压力。如果这些女性尚未结婚而又具有?三高? ，即高龄、高学历和高薪，那她们将有可能成为婚姻上的剩女。以往研究表明，女性被打上?剩女? 的标签后，这?剩? 字会给她们带来若干负面影响。本文运用两个理论：「支配性男性气质」(hegemonic masculinity) 和「象征性互动」(symbolic interaction) 理论。「支配性男性气质」作为理论说明男性如何建立规范使妇女处于从属地位。此观念基于这样一个已有概念，即中国男性不喜欢?三高? 女性。本文主要讨论中国男人在「支配性男性气质」主导的社会里如何自我定位。根据「象征性互动」理论，性别的概念是经由社会建構创造的性意思，过程被称为「做性别」(doing gender) 。「象征性互动」理论因此被用来观察中国男性对?三高?女性存在的特殊想法。而「支配性男性气质」的理论则把他们的回答放到一个更大的范围内。如果我们能够证明中国男性并不完全赞同「支配性男性气质」的概念，那么中国女性就没有必要认为必须顺应「支配性男性气质」的一些规范，从而使这些女性更愿意接受高等教育，从事高收入工作和晚婚。需要指出的是，由于本论文是定性研究，样本数量有限，结果不一定具有普遍性。本文受访者均熟悉・剩女?这个观念，并且觉得这些・三高・女性很自然地被社会标签为?剩余?。但尽管如此，当谈及他们自己的婚姻选择时，这些受访者却并不在意「支配性男性气质」对女性标签的负面意义。此现象在一定程度上从受访者个人经历和我们附加的对照性问题上得到证实。这一结果相当有意思，根据康奈尔（Connell）和梅塞施密特（MesserSchmidt）的理论，即使「支配性男性气质」是一个常态，但其在统计学上并不一定最常见。由于已有的概念认为中国男性不喜欢?三高?女性，本研究结果显示，有必要对这一概念作进一步的探讨和分析。

South Africa has the biggest HIV epidemic in the world and the HIV rates among youth are especially alarming. In 2016 there were 110 000 new cases of HIV among 15 to 24-year-olds. The aim of this study is to describe and analyse perceptions of HIV and HIV prevention among Xhosa youth in the township of Langa, Cape Town. In order to study this, I focus on the organisation loveLife and their employed peer educators called groundBREAKERs (gBs). To gain knowledge on what fuels the HIV epidemic in this setting I will examine their thoughts and notions of HIV/AIDS, sexuality and sexual behaviour in relation to the information that is available to them. Examining the socio-cultural context of HIV/AIDS is important to understand the spread and why HIV is not declining sufficiently in response to HIV preventative efforts. This thesis is based on ten weeks of fieldwork at loveLife’s Y-Centre in Langa. The material was gathered through semi-structured interviews and participant observation. To analyse the drivers for the spread of HIV among Xhosa youth an analytical tool of gender roles, with a main focus on masculinity, has been utilized.

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This thesis aims to find out the range of unpaid work in the Czech Republic and whether there are significant gender differences in the terms of unpaid work. This target was reached by evaluating experience from abroad, specifically from the research of OECD, research of HETUS and research based on a survey in the Slovakia in 2011. Measure of unpaid work in the Czech Republic was determined by present surveys, but was mainly based on my own survey. The thesis also contains a theoretical part that specifies the importance and influence of unpaid work. Gender inequalities in society but mainly in the labour market were also specified. This thesis summarises past results of surveys that addressed the topic of unpaid work. The main asset of my work is the research in the Czech Republic, which is directly focused on the range of unpaid work as there only had been series of research that dealt with unpaid work briefly. Another benefit of this work is proposing possible amendments because the assumption that women spend more time on unpaid work than men was confirmed. These changes could help to compensate the inequality.

Orientador: Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T10:36:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moschkovich_MariliaBarbaraFernandesGarcia_M.pdf: 3271674 bytes, checksum: 4a6d41ab594f0f7ab5ab4c0d8664b38c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Estudos sobre gênero e sua influência na construção das carreiras acadêmicas têm revelado que as mulheres se encontram numa situação de desvantagem substantiva nesse espaço profissional. Examinando a questão em países como Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, França, Holanda e Austrália, esses estudos atribuem tal desvantagem principalmente à oposição socialmente construída entre exigências das esferas profissional e doméstica e ao peso que a percepção subjetiva do valor do trabalho desempenhado por homens e mulheres tem nos processos de contratação e promoção. Esta pesquisa oferece uma contribuição para essa área de estudos, tomando como objeto a carreira acadêmica numa grande universidade pública brasileira - a Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Seu interesse é estudar uma carreira na qual esses dois elementos encontram-se, pelo menos parcialmente, eufemizados: em primeiro lugar, as mulheres que ingressam na carreira acadêmica nessa universidade podem pagar por trabalho doméstico remunerado e, dessa forma, reservar uma parte maior do tempo disponível para o trabalho científico. Em segundo lugar, a carreira acadêmica nas universidades públicas brasileiras, por se configurar como uma carreira do funcionalismo público, são submetidas a regras mais impessoais no que diz respeito à contratação e promoção. Além disso, no caso das universidades estaduais paulistas, que gozam de autonomia administrativa e orçamentária, os critérios que presidem as contratações e a promoções são definidos de maneira colegiada. Os resultados mostraram que: (i) as mulheres não se encontram em desvantagem sistemática para chegar ao cargo mais alto da carreira; (ii) o sexo está atrelado a certos padrões de trajetória profissional, as mulheres apresentando, por exemplo, circulação internacional e bolsas produtividade com menor frequência do que os homens; (iii) as exigências sociais com relação ao cuidado com filhos e com parentes mais velhos recaem ainda sobre as mulheres; (iv) o gênero representa uma série de limites anteriores, e outros diretamente ligados à carreira acadêmica para as mulheres brasileiras, limites esses que tornam as trajetórias das mulheres significativamente mais 'tumultuadas' do que a dos homens, mesmo quando comparados apenas docentes que chegaram a posições de bastante reconhecimento em suas áreas. / Abstract: Studies about the way gender is expressed in the bui,ding of academic careers have showed that women are in considerable disadvantage in such professional space. Investigating the matter in countries such as the USA, England, France, the Netherlands and Australia, those studies explain this disadvantage to the socially constructed opposition between work and Family demands, and also to the subjective perception of male and female work in hiring and promotion processes. This research offers a contribution to this field, choosing as object the academic career in an importante public university in Brazil - the State University of Campinas. Its interest is studying a career in which these two elements are, at least partially, euphemized. First, academic women from this university can afford paying for domestic work, having more time available to scientific work by doing so. Second, the academic career in Brazilian universities, as a state-hiring job, are ruled by universalist rules in hiring and promotion processes. Besides that, in the case of universities from the state of São Paulo, as they are administratively and finantially autonomous, the criteria that guide hiring and promotion is defined in a collegiate system. Our results show that: (i) women are not in a systematic disadvantage regarding access to the top of the career at Unicamp; (ii) sex is related to certain patterns of professional trajectories, so women, for example, are less related to international circulation and productivity grants; (iii) social demands in what concerns children and old relatives care-giving still fall mostly on women; (iv) gender represents a series of limitations imposed to women either before, out of, in or at their careers, what makes their trajectories seem more troubled than those of men, even when comparing only professors who did get to the top of the career in many aspects. / Mestrado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestra em Educação

The scholarly field of Gender and Development is riddled with diverging perceptions of the actual value and meaning of the term Gender and the development strategy of promoting gender equality – Gender Mainstreaming. Taking the social constructivist perspective of discourse analysis, this thesis explores the ways in which different problem representations of gender inequality are produced and reinforced within certain policy domains in the gender mainstreaming approach of the Rwandan government. The aim of this is to contribute to the scholarly field by exploring key areas not given a great deal of attention in previous research. Using the so-called ’WPR-method’ of policy analysis, developed by Carol Bacchi, a number of strategically selected policies representing different policy domains have been analyzed through four guiding analytical questions. Some main findings of the study indicates that while there are different specified problematizations of gender inequality in the domains, there is some overarching overlap in how the concept is understood to specifically concern women’s lack of agency, and how it is represented as a means to achieve the government’s targeted goals for socio-economic development.

ABSTRACT “FGM is known to have no health benefits and has serious, immediate and long-term physical and psychological health consequences, which can be severe, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and reduced desire or sexual satisfaction” (28 Too Many, 2014, p5). This master thesis is an attempt to gain male perspectives in strategies to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. The aim is to gain an understanding on how men view the concept of FGM in relation to existing norms such as gender, social and international norms. Literature tends to focus less on men’s roles and views compared to on women´s for how to end FGM. The male perspective is very important especially as literature shows that cultural practices in most cases benefit men compared to women as is shown in the case of FGM. Men are held in high esteem as the ones with a final deciding voice in the homes, institutions and the general community. This was also the case in the village of Mabonkani. Men hold powers to enable or prohibit actions and practices.  Therefore, if FGM is to end, men can, because of their positionality spearhead effective campaigns and awareness raising messages. Focus groups and interviews were used to obtain information. The empirical findings were analysed and categorised and then presented in tables, graphs and themes. The findings revealed a conflictual decision making that men face if/when they decide to abandon FGM as it is heavily tied to their cultural and social identity. Abandoning the practice also means that they face ostracism by their own community members, loss of identity as a family man and community member, breaking up social cohesion among other reasons. Men are keen on ending FGM after lengthy discussions on its complications at a personal and social level. Men expressed that they preferred the training of women than the removal of clitoris. They offered various solutions including sending girls to schools to address issues of informed consent/age as well as getting young people to be more involved in and to include all actors instead of picking just a few. The views of household men and youth were different. The youth embraced international norms. They suggested that it is up to them to change the future of the next generation through the information available and they no longer claim ignorance about FGM as was the case earlier.  All men interviewed cited challenges of identity, ostracism by their own community and lack of national laws to support their actions. The analysis looked at the human rights approach, how local communities can be influenced to abandon traditional harmful practices in favour of international norms that will promote gender equality and breakdown structural and systematic norms that discriminate.