Local research regarding women's contribution to municipal policy is very small. The majority ofresearch focuses on welfare expansion during the early 20th century and only mentions the role ofwomen in some subchapters in their research. Other researchers have mentioned that there is relativelylittle local research that puts women in focus regarding municipal work and that women need to bemapped more clearly. This essay decided to focus on the early 1950's as its starting point and lookdeeper into the women in the city council. With the help of municipal archive materials such as Lists ofMembers and Documents in the City Council, does this thesis aim to investigate what the representationof men and women looked like before and after the election in 1950 in Karlstad municipality? Whattypes of committees did the female city council members participate in? And what issues did the womenin the city council raise in their motions? This was also interesting to contrast with the gender contract. What this case study came to was that the women were very underrepresented in the city council andthey usually behaved in various assignments which meant that they did not break the gender contract.However, some of the women had broken away from the traditional patterns. It turned out, however, thatthe women in the various committees were usually very few, it was usually only a single woman whohad a place in each committee, which indicates that the women were side-by-side in differentcommittees. The motions that the women in the City Council highlighted also pointed out that a genderdistribution, where the women usually worked with only women regarding issues that were expected tobe women's issues.

Gestaltningsteorin är en av de mest använda teorierna inom medieforskning. Dock saknas det kunskap om hur tidningar från förr gestaltade särskilda händelser. Jag har valt att genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys undersöka hur arbetarrörelsens första majdemonstration gestaltas av Norrskensflamman, Arbetet, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet mellan åren 1917 och 1923. Dessa tidningar har olika ideologiska hemvister vilket resulterar i att de väljer att lägga tyngd på olika händelser och innehåll vid rapporteringen. Genom tre kategoriska teman: stämning och uppslutning, lag och ordning samt sakpolitik fångar jag in särskilda händelser för att sedan analysera hur dessa gestaltas av tidningarna. Resultatet visar att tidningarna i viss mån väljer att fokusera på olika delar av majdemonstrationen, i vissa fall utelämna väsentliga delar trots att de rapporterar om samma sak. / <p>Godkännande datum: 2022-01-14</p>