Development organisations are generally believed to be fairly gender equal workplaces, with gender related issues seen as something external or foreign to the organisation. However, all organisations exist within gendered structures, and should not be considered as gender neutral or separate. Building on the theory of feminist institutionalism, this paper aims to study how informal gender power structures are experienced by employees in a development organisation, namely the Folke Bernadotte Academy. To research this, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to study the experiences and opinions of the respondents. A feminist institutionalist framework identified three areas of particular interest, “Tasks and assignments”, “Support norms” and “Interactions between employees”. After conducting interviews the information was analysed. The conclusions drawn are that FBAs employees describe experiences of some gender power structures. Most notably relating to parenting norms and logic of appropriateness. Seconded employees in general seemed to experience more gender power structures than internal employees. Additionally FBA and its employees seem to express the view that gender inequality is an external problem or that they are unaffected because their workforce is made up of a majority of women.

<p>The aim of this investigation work " What was it called...Equality...? is to study a clinics current gender equailty plan from a gender approach and by a field survey see if, and in that case, how it can be improved. A connection between existing gender norms and gender power strukctures is applied in the results of this survey in order to illustrate their significance from an individual as well as a structural perspektive.</p><p>The survey has been carried through by a field survey as well as a discourse analysis as method. Yvonne Hirdmans gender power system is on of the main theoretical points of departure.</p><p>The results that I have achieved in this essay is that gender can be looked at in different ways within the labour market where women have the main responsibility over the family and are considered more nursing then men. Men on the other hand are thinking of their carriers and have higher salary requirements. Gender rolls and their maintanace are the reason of the existing gender segregation on the labour market. The importance of an increased knowledge of how gender is created and recreated within the organisation are necessary to make a difference and that knowledge are important for men as well as for women.</p>

The aim of this investigation work " What was it called...Equality...? is to study a clinics current gender equailty plan from a gender approach and by a field survey see if, and in that case, how it can be improved. A connection between existing gender norms and gender power strukctures is applied in the results of this survey in order to illustrate their significance from an individual as well as a structural perspektive. The survey has been carried through by a field survey as well as a discourse analysis as method. Yvonne Hirdmans gender power system is on of the main theoretical points of departure. The results that I have achieved in this essay is that gender can be looked at in different ways within the labour market where women have the main responsibility over the family and are considered more nursing then men. Men on the other hand are thinking of their carriers and have higher salary requirements. Gender rolls and their maintanace are the reason of the existing gender segregation on the labour market. The importance of an increased knowledge of how gender is created and recreated within the organisation are necessary to make a difference and that knowledge are important for men as well as for women.

Staden i sin historiska form kan anses vara diskriminerande där den traditionella staden planerats av mannen och för mannen med en avsaknad av kunskap och erfarenhet från kvinnor och andra underrepresenterade grupper i samhället. Resultatet har blivit städer bestående av miljöer som upprätthåller rådande könsmaktsordning och som försvårar livet i staden för vissa och gynnar livet för andra. Feministisk stadsplanering har vuxit fram som en respons på detta i syftet att utmana rådande planeringsprinciper med målet att åstadkomma socialt hållbara och jämlika städer där alla ges lika möjligheter och rättigheter att leva ett gott liv. Syftet med uppsatsen är att genom yrkesverksammas perspektiv inom stadsplanering undersöka praktiserandet av feministisk stadsplanering i en svensk kontext, hur begreppet tolkas och används, samt vilka svårigheter och utmaningar som tycks existera. Den metod som använts för att söka svar på dessa frågor är semistrukturerade intervjuer. Dessa genomfördes med fem personer yrkesverksamma inom stadsplanering i de fem svenska städerna Stockholm, Malmö, Jönköping, Umeå och Lund. Den insamlade empirin analyserades och tolkades enligt tidigare forskning, begrepp och tillvägagångssätt med utgångspunkt i feministiska teorier. Resultatet visar på att definitionen av begreppet feministisk stadsplanering tenderar att variera samtidigt som begreppet i sig inte är av primär betydelse, istället handlar det om att fylla det med rätt innehåll så att målet blir det önskvärda. Feministisk stadsplanering som begrepp används därmed inte i någon större utsträckning, istället kan användandet av alternativa begrepp vara att föredra då dessa stöter på mindre motstånd och tar plats i ordinarie strukturer på ett smidigare sätt. Feministiska inslag i planeringen återfinns i varierande utsträckning i samtliga kommuner som intervjupersonerna är verksamma inom. Särskilt framträdande är förekomsten av ett maktperspektiv med ett utökat fokus på upplevd otrygghet, användandet av genus och ett intersektionellt perspektiv i planeringen, samt synen på jämlikhetsarbetet som något kontextuellt och platsspecifikt. Vad gäller svårigheter och utmaningar anses både politik och riktlinjer utgöra begränsningar, säkerställandet av frågornas betydelse från planeringsstart till slutligt genomförande anses utmanande, samt att en stor del av ansvaret tenderar hamna på den enskilde personen. / The city in its historical form can be considered discriminatory, where the traditional city has been planned by and for men, with a lack of knowledge and experience from women and other underrepresented groups in society. This results in a built environment that maintain the prevailing gender power structures, making the life in the city more difficult for some while favoring others. Feminist urban planning has emerged as a response to this aiming to challenge the prevailing planning principles with the goal of achieving socially sustainable and equitable cities where everyone is given the same conditions to live a good life. The purpose of this essay is to examine, through the perspective of professionals in urban planning, how feminist urban planning is utilized in a Swedish context, how the concept is interpreted and applied, and what difficulties and challenges seem to exist. The method used to address these questions is semi-structured interviews. These were conducted with five professionals in urban planning operating in five different Swedish cities; Stockholm, Malmö, Jönköping, Umeå and Lund. The empirical data was analyzed and interpreted according to previous research, concepts and approaches based on feminist theories. The results indicate that the definition of the term feminist urban planning tends to vary, while the term itself is not of primary importance, instead it is about filling it with the right content so that the goal becomes the desirable. The term feminist urban planning is thus not extensively utilized, instead the use of alternative terms may be preferable as they tend to encounter less resistance and integrate more smoothly into ordinary structures. Elements of feminist urban planning are found to varying degrees in all cities where the interviewees are active. Particularly prominent is the presence of a power perspective with an expanded focus on perceived insecurity, the use of gender and an intersectional perspective in planning, and the knowledge about equality work as something contextual and site-specific. Regarding difficulties and challenges, both politics and guidelines are considered as limitations, ensuring the importance of social questions from the beginning of the planning process to the final implementation is deemed challenging, and a significant part of the responsibility tends to fall on the individual.

This study contains an analysis of images through a gender perspective of three history text books for middle schools. The aim of this study is to clarify if the images reflect a gender power structure where men are superior women. The answered questions were: do women and men appear as often in the pictures of the books? How are women and men portrayed from a gender perspective in the pictures? What possible consequences could the portrayal of men and women cause the education and pupils? Our theoretical perspective is Yvonne Hirdman’s gender theory, Vivien Burr’s social constructionism and Ferdinand de Saussure’s and Roland Barthes’s theory about semiotics. Our methods were a quantitative content analysis combined with a qualitative semiotic analysis of images. The quantitative content analysis showed that there is an overrepresentation of men in the pictures of the books. The qualitative semiotic analysis showed that men are portrayed as main characters in the pictures. This by given more space by positions, accessories and activities. Women on the other hand is portrayed as passive and to some extent as accessories to the men. The women seem to rule in the sphere of children and home, while men seem to be absent in these same areas. Women and men are also physically separated on the images which makes the gender power structure even more clear.