In the construction industry today, there is a big demand of new recruits. One effective way of reaching new recruits is to consider other candidates than the majority which today populates the construction industry – men. Meanwhile women face a lot of obstacles in the industry as a consequence of the macho culture. Managers play an important role in the wellbeing of their employees and for the company culture. The study’s purpose is to research if managers in Sweden can influence women to staying in the construction industry by answering two research questions: (1) How can management support female employees to make them want to stay in the construction industry? (2) What support and tools do management need from their organisations to ensure the wellbeing and workplace satisfaction of their female employees?   A qualitative research approach was conducted and women working at construction sites, their managers, and human resources-personnel were interviewed. In total 12 interviewees were participating in semi-structured and in-depth interviews and a minimum of three interviewees came from the same company. In total three companies were included in the study. A thematic analysis was applied to the collected data and three overarching themes were identified.  The most important findings of the study have been: (1) Manager’s knowledge versus managers understanding of the obstacles women face in the construction industry. (2) Managers sharing the opinion of the equality issue progressing organically. And (3) that the conflict per se is not as important as how the conflict is being managed. To give women in the construction industry the right support to want to stay in the industry mangers need to develop a deeper understanding for women’s challenges in the industry, develop their conflict management, take a clear stance in their own role in the progression of the equality issue of the industry, and take proactive actions. The identified support managers need from their organizations is educations to understand the challenges women face in the construction industry and clear and standardized communication flow between employees and different level managers support. Furthermore, they need support from human resources-personnel to minimize the risk of recruiting women on the premises them being able to withstand the current culture in the industry, which today is fuelling the macho culture.

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Thesis "The comparison of selected topics in Vlasta Magazine between periods 1973- 1978 and 2013-2018" informs readers about thematic categories in Vlasta Magazine of the 1970s and the 21st century. The main goal was to compare topics of these two periods and decide how they have changed during forty years. This work introduces media theories, reminds of the most important Czech and Czechoslovakian historic events, the third chapter discusses woman's roles, especially her work and social roles. The next chapter is about media owners and about Vlasta Magazine. The practical part of this work is dedicated to quantitative and qualitative differences among thematic categories in Vlasta Magazine between periods 1973-1978 and 2013-2018. Research shows that texts of both periods have their typical features. Authors write about politics and criticize social imperfections. A woman is shown like an unselfish mother and a hard worker. Nowadays, journalists speak neither about policy nor foregone regime. An appeal to women is not coherent - they should be beautiful and slim, but on the other hand "real women have curves" and "a real lady does not care about wrinkles". Today's women do care about relationships with men and about shopping. In addition, consumerism is evident because of increased number of...

The aim of this study was to explore the self-concept of battered South African women. The ecosystemic approach was used to ground the battering experience. This qualitative framework was exploratory and also included an in-depth analysis of the battering experiences as narrated by abused women. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the data obtained were analysed through the use of the hermeneutic method. The following were the themes that emerged out of the narratives: dominance, control versus loss of control, connection versus disconnection, security versus insecurity, and feelings of degradation. The study provides a holistic understanding of battering and its impact on women’s selfconcept. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

A violência contra a mulher constitui uma violação dos direitos humanos e das liberdades fundamentais. Em 2006, o governo brasileiro aprovou a Lei 11.340 Lei Maria da Penha - que coíbe a violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher. Apesar do esforço que vem sendo feito por órgãos governamentais e não governamentais, a implantação da Lei Maria da Penha tem encontrado resistências. Alguns representantes do Poder Judiciário advogam a inconstitucionalidade da Lei. A interpretação e aplicabilidade da Lei fica submetida às representações sociais sobre o papel da mulher na sociedade e seus direitos. A teoria das representações sociais são um auxílio para analisar os discursos de agentes policiais das Delegacias de Defesa da Mulher e Distritos Policiais que trabalham com a Lei, cotidianamente. / Violence against woman represents a violation to human rights and fundamental liberties. In 2006, Brazilian government approved the Law 11.340 named Maria da Penha Law which cohibits domestic and familiar violence against woman. In spite of effort which has been done from governmental and non-governmental organisms, the implantation of Maria da Penha Law has found resistances. Some representatives of Court advocate the legacy of this law. The interpretation and appliability of the Law get submitted to social representations about the woman in society and her rights. The theory of social representations constitutes a support to analyze speeches of police officers at Woman Police Station and Police Stations which deal with that Law, day after day.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael da Gama.pdf: 5711868 bytes, checksum: 1bcdadfeb0b9b75175c906503ace33c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research analyzes how part of the press of Belém, during the late 1930s and the early 1940s (1938-1941), portrays the cinema and the woman. We will seek to debate in what manner the press built female ideals associated to the movies, through issues, illustrations and advertisements. The major documentary sources that will be analyzed are two variety magazines "A Semana" and "Pará Ilustrado", that used to circulate in the city which constantly issued the State of Pará, promoting spaces, ideals and social behaviors. We will also examine the great press of Pará, the newspaper "Folha do Norte" and the female catholic magazine "Quero", discussing on how these media press depicted the city of Belém, its movie theaters and content. Furthermore, we will apprehend the approach made by the press towards women, the feminine ideal which they presented and how they used to articulate it in the direction of the female value shown in the cinema. Thus, the press will be discussed as an active agent in the urban medium, used by social groups for diffusion of spaces, behaviors and values, in this case, more specifically, in the propagation and consolidation of the cinema in the city, whether articulating with its social construction of the city of Belém or making a strong use of the feminine in the direction of disclosure and appreciation of the cinema / Esta pesquisa analisa como parte da imprensa belenense na década de 30 e início da década de 40 (1938-1941) retrata o cinema e a mulher. Procuraremos debater como a imprensa construía ideais femininos associados ao cinema, através de matérias, ilustrações e anúncios publicitários. As principais fontes documentais que analisaremos são as revistas de variedades A Semana e Pará Ilustrado , que circulavam na cidade, das quais constantemente tratavam do Estado do Pará, difundindo espaços, ideais e comportamentos sociais. Também analisaremos o jornal de grande imprensa do Estado do Pará Folha do Norte e a revista católica feminina Quero , debatendo como estes veículos de comunicação retratavam a cidade de Belém, suas salas cinematográficas e seu conteúdo fílmico. Ademais, perceberemos as suas abordagens feitas à mulher, os ideais femininos que estes apresentavam, e o modo como articulavam seus ideais de mulher aos valores femininos presentes no cinema. Assim, discutiremos a imprensa como um agente ativo no meio urbano, utilizado por grupos sociais para a difusão de espaços, comportamentos e valores, nesse caso, mais especificamente, na propagação e consolidação do cinema na cidade, quer seja o articulando com sua construção social da cidade de Belém ou se utilizando fortemente do feminino para difusão e valorização desse cinema

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A violência contra a mulher constitui uma violação dos direitos humanos e das liberdades fundamentais. Em 2006, o governo brasileiro aprovou a Lei 11.340 Lei Maria da Penha - que coíbe a violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher. Apesar do esforço que vem sendo feito por órgãos governamentais e não governamentais, a implantação da Lei Maria da Penha tem encontrado resistências. Alguns representantes do Poder Judiciário advogam a inconstitucionalidade da Lei. A interpretação e aplicabilidade da Lei fica submetida às representações sociais sobre o papel da mulher na sociedade e seus direitos. A teoria das representações sociais são um auxílio para analisar os discursos de agentes policiais das Delegacias de Defesa da Mulher e Distritos Policiais que trabalham com a Lei, cotidianamente. / Violence against woman represents a violation to human rights and fundamental liberties. In 2006, Brazilian government approved the Law 11.340 named Maria da Penha Law which cohibits domestic and familiar violence against woman. In spite of effort which has been done from governmental and non-governmental organisms, the implantation of Maria da Penha Law has found resistances. Some representatives of Court advocate the legacy of this law. The interpretation and appliability of the Law get submitted to social representations about the woman in society and her rights. The theory of social representations constitutes a support to analyze speeches of police officers at Woman Police Station and Police Stations which deal with that Law, day after day.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2000. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 9, 2004). Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-98).

Cultural and historical accounts of self-help literature typically describe its development and focus in terms of the autonomous, public male subject of the nineteenth century. This literary study recognizes that as masculine self-help discourse became widely accessible in the mid nineteenth century, mid-Victorian feminist novels, periodicals, and tracts developed versions of self-help that disrupted the dominant cultural view that the single female was helpless and “redundant” if she did not become a wife and mother. I argue that the dual focus of Victorian self-help discourse on the ability to help oneself and others was attractive for Victorian feminist writers who needed to manipulate the terms of the domestic ideal of woman as influential helpmeet, if women’s independence and civic duty were to be made culturally palatable. Chapter One focuses on how Dinah Mulock Craik drew on self-help values popularized in mid-century articles and collective biographies by Samuel Smiles, while rejecting the genre of biography for its invasiveness into female lives. By imagining a deformed single artist heroine in the context of her 1851 bildungsroman, Olive, Craik highlighted and contested the objectification of women within Victorian culture while reproducing other forms of female difference based on dominant constructions of class, sexuality, and race. Chapter Two extends formal and thematic considerations of self-help discourse to a comparison of masculine colonial accounts of class-climbing and the projection of a self-reliant, yet deeply unstable, domestic female by Maria Rye and the Female Middle-Class Emigration Society. Chapter Three exerts critical pressure on the tension between individual and mutual help by charting the debate that raged between liberal individualism and collectivism in the labour movement, particularly in The Women’s Union Journal. Returning to a focus on the binary of female aberrance and normalcy within Victorian culture, Chapter Four analyzes late-century case studies of nervous illnesses alongside Ella Hepworth Dixon’s 1894 New Woman novel that promoted self-help for women as desirable yet unattainable in a society still largely structured around the domestic ideal. At its broadest, this dissertation explores points of convergence and departure between Victorian masculine and feminine self-help texts, and touches on reverberations of this Victorian discourse in today’s self-help works directed at women in Western culture.