In this paper, I will study job-ads published in the newspaper Hallandsposten within the period 1915-1970. I will investigate whether job-ads can give information about changes in society from a gender perspective that can be useful when teaching history. To accomplish this I will conduct my study with gender-theory and through qualitative text analysis. The analysis was categorized into four themes: requested gender, age and corporeality, family relationships and ability or character. The results showed that changes in society are evident in job-ads within all categories. Most prominent was the changes in terms of how job-ads for women has been constructed throughout the period. In terms of the usefulness of teaching I came to the conclusion that job-ads are not the ideal teaching material compared to regular articles in the newspaper. However, with well-based questions job-ads can be efficient when teaching subjects such as: women’s history, labor history and other events that can be noted in job-ads.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-33378 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Nyström, Robert |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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