Under hösten 2007 har vi genomfört ett utredningsarbete på en arbetsplats kopplad till politik och en folkvald församling. Utredningsarbetet inleddes med att en enkät sändes ut till alla anställda. Ur enkätens resultat formulerades sedan syftet: att undersöka hur jämställdhetsarbete kan utvecklas och arbetas vidare med på en arbetsplats som till synes redan har ett etablerat jämställdhetsarbete. Som ett led i att uppnå syftet frågade vi oss hur den informella jämställdheten kan te sig, och hur den kan relateras till jämställdhets- och mångfaldsplanen? Vi använde oss övergripande av teorier om genus, och applicerade bland annat teorier om könskodning, informella nätverk, könssegregering och motstånd. Förutom enkät användes även kvalitativa intervjuer och deltagande observation. Vi upplevde att jämställdhets- och mångfaldsplanen har en relativt låg status, vilket kan ha samband med det faktum att den tenderade att hamna utanför jämställdhetsdiskussionen överlag. Detta kan bero på att medarbetarna i mångt och mycket uppfattar arbetsplatsen som ”redan jämställd”. En anledning till det kan vara att jämställdhets- och mångfaldsplanen inte tillräckligt berör eller fångar upp de jämställdhetsrelaterade problem som informanterna beskriver, främst informella. Exempel på informella jämställdhetsproblem som beskrivs är: inofficiella nätverk, arbetsuppdelning mellan kvinnor och män och arbetsuppdelningens statusskillnad. Ett ytterligare exempel är en obalans i utrymme mellan könen, gällande tal i offentliga utrymmen. Trots att arbetsplatsen redan har ett etablerat jämställdhetsarbete finns det alltså fortfarande områden att åtgärda. Jämställdhet är ett ständigt pågående arbete och vi ser att arbetsplatsen har goda förutsättningar att möta ovan nämnda utmaningar. / During the fall of 2007 we have carried out an investigative work in a workplace connected to politics and an elected political assembly. Our investigation started with a survey being sent out to all employees. The results of this survey allowed us to formulate the precise aim of the study: to investigate how gender equality work can continue and also evolve in a workplace that seems to already have an established gender equality work. As a part of fulfilling our aim we asked the question how the informal gender equality may appear and whether it can be related to the equal opportunities and diversity plan of the workplace? Throughout the investigation we used a gender theory perspective and applied theories concerning gender coding, informal networks, gender segregation and resistance against equality. Apart from the survey, qualitative interviews and field observation were used. We found that the equal opportunity and diversity plan had a relatively low status, which might be connected to the fact that it tended to be placed outside the overall gender equality discussion. This could be a result of workers already perceiving the workplace as “gender equal”. One reason for this could be that the equal opportunities and diversity plan is not adequately focusing on the gender equal related problems that are described as mostly informal. Examples of informal gender equality problems are: informal networks, division of labor based on gender and the differences in status thereof. Another example is the imbalance between the sexes considering verbal communication in public arenas. Despite the fact that the workplace already has an established gender equality work there is still work to be done. Gender equality is an ongoing process and we find that the workplace has a good chance to face these above-mentioned ongoing challenges.

This dissertation focuses on continuity and change in a local knowledge culture, the nursing teacher education in Stockholm, during the years between 1958 and 1999, with a strong emphasis on conceptions of knowledge and learning. Concepts of analysis come from Basil Bernstein, Ludwik Fleck, Reinhart Koselleck and gender theory. The study is based on archived documents and interviews with nursing teacher educators. The results show continuity as well as change of the knowledge culture. The first period, 1958-1974, shows continuity in relation to the space of experience. Methodical knowledge is important. The second time period, 1975-1978, is characterized by great changes, starting with a distinct break when prior conceptions and values are discarded. The focus on important, external knowledge of the earlier period is replaced by the conception that the human being and her inner abilities and characteristics are the most important resources for the profession. Conceptions and values are not completely abandoned during the last time period, 1979-1999. Values connected to personality development remain, but new values appear as a consequence of state governance towards research basis. The spirit of time, new co-workers, changed state governance, the ideological characteristics of values as well as a female dominance within the education allow an understanding of the great change in conceptions and values in the middle of the 1970’s.  A stable staff of nursing teacher educators, the specific ideological and gender coded features of the values and a traditional distinctiveness and separation from other teacher education programs allow an understanding of the stability of the personality development element. The male gender coding of the content during the first period could be understood by the influence of physicians on the education, state governance towards education technology and harmony with the space of experience. During the whole of the studied time period, there are female coded conceptions regarding the work of the nursing teacher educators; collectivity, emphasis on practical action and control of - closeness to the student group. / När praktikgrundad kunskap möter högskolan

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to investigate how an ideal job applicant is described when searching real estate janitors and real estate managers in job advertising using a Swedish linguistic perspective. This is achieved by looking at how the model reader is constructed i.e. if the ways to describe the two occupational groups differ, if the descriptions tend to include or exclude groups of applicants, and if and how a relationship is created between the employer and the recipient and if so what kind of relationship. The material consists of ten job advertisements where the employer is looking for real estate janitors and ten job advertisements where the employer is looking for real estate managers. The choice of method for the study is systemic functional grammar, critical discourse analysis and gender coding. Theoretically I also start from the systemic functional grammar and the critical discourse analysis, though with an emancipatory approach. The descriptions of the dream candidates that is created in the ads differ between the two occupations. Real estate janitor is a job which requires more practical skills, while the job as a manager requires more theoretical skills. The ideal real estate janitor has equal numbers of masculine and feminine qualities. The dream candidate is self-propelled, service-oriented and is able to plan the working day in an efficient way. Since the employer seems to have a dominant attitude towards the janitor their relationship tends to not be very close. The ideal dream candidate created for real estate managers is also very self-sufficient, but he or she also has a strong internal drive and likes to run projects in combination with a strong sense of responsibility. The ideal real estate manager has a little more feminine than masculine qualities. The relationship between the employer and the ideal real estate manager is more symmetrical than the relationship that is constructed with the ideal real estate manager.

Studien undersöker könsskillnader inom fastighetsmäklaryrket, med fokus på ett genusperspektiv och hur könskodning påverkar manliga och kvinnliga mäklare. Fastighetsmäklaryrket kännetecknas av individuell prestation och oftast en provisionsbaserad ersättning. Vid årsskiftet 2023 var könsfördelningen inom yrket nästan jämn, med 3 436 kvinnor och 4 169 män registrerade som mäklare i Sverige. Kvinnor hade en något högre avregistreringsfrekvens än män. Studiens resultat tyder på att manliga och kvinnliga mäklare har olika motiv för att välja yrket och återspeglar delvis samhällets könsstereotyper och normer. Medan män oftare dras till de tävlingsinriktade och prestationsbaserade aspekterna av yrket, betonade kvinnorna oftare kundrelationer, mental påfrestning och familjeliv. Dessa skillnader visade påverkan på karriärmöjligheter och upplevelsen av hur de uppfattas av kunder. Kvinnliga mäklare upplever i särskilda fall att deras kompetens ifrågasätts, ofta kopplat till könsstereotyper. Detta tyder på att kvinnor i dessa situationer kan behöva anstränga sig extra för att bevisa sin kompetens. Resultaten belyser vikten av att förstå och adressera de strukturella och sociala hinder som påverkar främst de kvinnliga mäklares yrkesupplevelser, men även faktumet att branschen förändrats över tid till ett mer jämställt yrke, vilket statistiken speglar men även upplevelserna. / This study investigates gender differences in the real estate agents profession, focusing on a gender perspective and how gender coding affects male and female real estate agents. The real estate agent profession is characterized by individual performance and typically commission-based pay. At the end of the year 2023, the gender distribution within the profession was nearly balanced, with 3,436 women and 4,169 men registered as real estate agents in Sweden. Women had a slightly higher deregistration rate than men. The study's results indicate that male and female real estate agents have different motivations for choosing the profession, partly reflecting societal gender stereotypes and norms. While men more often were attracted to the competitive and performance-based aspects of the profession, women more frequently emphasized client relationships, mental stress, and family life. These differences showed an impact on career opportunities and the experience of how they were perceived by clients. Female brokers sometimes experienced that their competence is questioned, often linked to gender stereotypes. This indicates that women in these situations may need to make an additional effort to prove their competence. The results highlight the importance of understanding and addressing the structural and social barriers that primarily affect female real estate agents and their professional experiences, while also acknowledging that the industry has become a more gender-equal profession over time, as reflected by the statistics as well as the experiences.