Personal i fritidshem har en stor påverkan på verksamheten och eleverna. De planerar verksamheten och deras sätt att vara reflekteras på eleverna. Läraren medierar och gestaltar normer och värden genom hens sätt att tala och vara. En lärare ska synliggöra och diskutera med eleverna om hur könsmönster kan begränsa individens livsvillkor och livsval. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur personal i fritidshem arbetar med stereotypa könsmönster och deras erfarenheter av det arbetet. Empirin som studien är baserad på är införskaffad genom åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer, vilket är en kvalitativ metod. Intervjuerna har transkriberats och analyserats genom tematisk analys, det gjorde att olika teman togs fram. Vid analysen har tre teoretiska perspektiv tillämpats; socialkonstruktivism, normkritiskt perspektiv och genusordning. De slutsatser som dras är att personal i fritidshem är medvetna om att det i deras verksamhet finns stereotypa könsmönster bland såväl elever som personal. Samt att personal i fritidshem anser att arbetet med att motverka stereotypa könsmönster har fler hinder än möjlighet. Det framgår att de normer som finns i samhället i stort påverkar fritidshemmet verksamhet. Den andra slutsatsen som dras är att arbetet med stereotypa könsmönster inte är prioriterat inom fritidshemmets verksamheter.

Den senaste av de internationella konventioner som rör kvinnors rättigheter är Istanbulkonventionen som trädde i kraft den 1 augusti 2014. Den och övriga konventioner som rör kvinnors rättigheter har ratificerats av Sverige som därmed gjort sig skyldiga att efterleva dess krav och rekommendationer. Genom en diskursanalys har Sveriges lagar granskats med stöd av ett täckande intervjumaterial för att ta reda på om Sverige faktiskt efterlever de internationella åtagande som staten tagit på sig i frågan om att bekämpa mäns våld mot kvinnor. Materialet har bearbetats utifrån en feministisk teoribildning där det diskuterats utifrån könens sociala konstruktion, genusordningen och maskulinitetsperspektivet. / The latest of the international conventions on women's rights are Istanbul Convention, which entered into force on 1 August 2014. This and other conventions on women's rights has been ratified by Sweden thus guilty to comply with its requirements and recommendations. Through a discourse analysis has Sweden's laws examined under a comprehensive interview materials to find out about Sweden actually comply with the international commitments, which the State accepted for the issue of combating violence against women. The material has been processed from a feminist theory where it is discussed on the basis of gender social construction, gender order and masculinity perspective.

Equality between women and men is one ongoing question. Even though women represent half of the world's population she is barely visible in any media. Global, national and lokal studies shows that the man is, and has been, medially over-represented for a very long time. But equality is not just about the quantitative space, but also the general presentation. Therefore, this study examines gender representation and stereotypes in the Swedish childrens papers Kamratposten and SvD Junior. By a quantitative content analysis two coding schemes have been constructed based on Yvonne Hirdmans theory about the gender order, Stuart Halls representation theory and Jesper Strömbäcks theoretical summary of the media logic. By analysing both text and pictures this study have been able to answer its three issues. The result is later presented with both diagrams and descriptive text where it shown how the outcome goes against the previous researches and this study is by that in some cases unexpected. In summary both Kamratposten and SvD Junior contains about the same percentages girls/woman and boys/men. This sort of equality is not common in earlier studies. However, the stereotypes is a very common occurrence in both papers which also have been proved to be the most prominent features in other Swedish media. For example, girls/women are quoted primarily within softer subjects, such as family, feelings and relationships. Instead, boys/men are quoted within harder subjects like sport, games and science. The total result of this study thereby shows that the papers is very much identical in every sense.

Men’s violence against women in intimate partner relationships is a comprehensive problem in society both in Sweden and in the world. Most of the violence occurs at home which makes it a well-hidden problem and the lack of knowledge about men´s violence against women in intimate partner relationships makes it difficult to tackle. The purpose of this essay was to study the character of the violence, how comprehensive the violence is and the actions that Sweden has taken to end men´s violence against women in intimate partner relationships. The result shows that violence in intimate partner relationships occurs in all ages, ethnicities and social classes. The violence can be psychological, physical, sexual, material or economic and the abuser successively takes control over the women and her life. Prejudice about who the abuser is are common and if the abuser doesn’t fit in to the stereotype we seem to look for explanations in the implication of alcohol, anger issues or cultural background. We also seem to mistrust the women and rather than focusing on the crime that has been committed against her we focus on questions such as; why didn’t she leave sooner? To fight this social problem the government has developed a national strategy. This strategy points out that the inequality between women and men is the biggest reason that the violence occurs. According to the strategy education within all levels of society is the key to change the image of femininity and masculinity that feeds inequality between women and men.