Gender and Work

A Research and Digitization Project at the Department of History

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What did women and men do to make a living?

Developing new methods

Read about the third phase of the Gender and Work research project

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Speaking to One’s Superiors

Read about a new digitisation project

Gender & Work seminar

Seminar programme for the spring 2022 (pdf)

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Gillra älgdrag

År 1787 beslutade sig tre jämtländska bönder, Johan Olofsson i Döviken samt Erik Nilsson och Natanael Olofsson i Krångede tillsammans med den sistnämndes son Olof Natanaelsson, för att anlägga ett älgdrag, alltså en fälla för att döda det stora villebrådet. En god idé, kan tyckas, med tanke på att en fälld älg kunde ge ett ansenligt tillskott till hushållets försörjning, även om djuret i 1600- och 1700-talens Sverige förde en tynande tillvaro under jägarens ok. Kanske just

The GaW database is being updated!

System developers at Umeå University are currently constructing a new version of the GaW database. Read more

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."