Gender and Work

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Trumma ut julfriden

Årets sista verb kommer från en anteckning i Sala rådhusrätts dombok år 1770, där det står att stadens trumslagare Joackim Brun och ”hans Camrater” skulle få 3 daler silvermynt i lön för ”Juhle fredens uttrumlande” den 24 december. Enligt Nordisk familjebok var julfriden en period som sträckte sig från julafton till tjugondedag jul och som ”på grund af de göromål, som då upptogo folket, voro fritag[en] från handläggning af rättegångsmål”. Med andra ord fick man inte s

Maria Ågren receives the Rudbeck Medal

The Rudbeck Medal of Uppsala University 2020 is awarded to Maria Ågren, among others, with the motivation that she:

"under a long time [has] done research within the project Gender and Work. Her scientific activities is distinguished by methodological new thinking on complicated issues. She has built up an extensive infrastructure of research with interdisciplinary cooperation between different scientific fields."