This study highlights the social secretary's experiences and experiences regarding working in a female-dominated profession. The main purpose of this study is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of the profession of social secretaries from a social constructivist perspective and a gender perspective. In the study, we also chose to use a quantitative approach where we created questionnaires and sent them out to social workers to answer, the questions consisted of both open and closed questions. The results show both negative and positive results of being and working in a female-dominated profession. The positive aspects are, among other things, that women have found a profession where they can take a place and work their way up, but the negative aspects are that this profession has become less attractive for men to apply for as the profession is considered female. In the profession of social secretary, women can “take up more space” than they usually can in other male-dominated professions, which shows that social constructivism and gender theory exist in the business. The discussion also draws attention to the fact that women can not take as much space as men when the majority of their colleagues are men, as men are considered to be the superior sex, even though they should be able to do so regardless of which gender dominates or whether it is equal.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-53433 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Kortas, Joelle, Kraja, Sara |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3) |
| 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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