Gender and Work

A Research and Digitization Project at the Department of History

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Search, analyze and compile data in the GaW database

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What did women and men do to make a living?

Speaking to One’s Superiors

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Gender & Work seminar

Seminar programme Spring 2021 (pdf in Swedish)

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Verb of the month

Koordinatsätta individer och deras arbete

Även maj månads verb handlar om vad vi gör i vårt arbete med att analysera GaW2-datasetet, nu när vi slutat utöka det med nya verb från historiska källor. Vi undersöker bland annat rumsliga aspekter. Var arbetade kvinnor och män? Var det i hembyn eller någon annanstans, kanske rentav långt bort från deras hemort? Som ett led i att försöka ta reda på svar letar jag fram koordinater för både individernas hemort och för arbetsaktiviteterna i databas

On gender ideals in early nineteenth century fashion magazines

Contradictory ideals of womanhood in the Swedish fashion magazine “Magasin för konst, nyheter och moder” is explored by Gudrun Andersson in her new article.

Read Gudrun Andersson’s article “Too anxious to please: moralising gender in fashion magazines in the early nineteenth century”.

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."