The purpose of this study was to examine how employees perceive Female chief executiveofficers and if any significant differences between what leadership-skills Female and maleco-employees choose to express about Female leaders can be observed. The survey isperformed as a qualitative study where three companies within the retail marketparticipated. We collected our empirical data by interviews and observations and usedsocial constructivist theory to look at how individuals construct their subjective view ofreality. The result showed, among others, that Female employees often use traditional maleskills to describe the strengths of their Female chief, whereas male employees emphasizesmore Female skills such as unpretentious and open-minded..

How do probation inspectors describe their Female clients and Female offenders? Are there any discrepancies in treatment between male and Female clients? In what way is the social interaction between Female clients and inspectors constructed and described?  These are the issues we have explored in this study. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with a total of nine probation inspectors; six women and three men, were used in order to examine the probation inspectors? constructions of clients and the construction of interaction between them. By applying Foucault?s theory of power relations, Hirdman?s gender theory and Olsson?s theory of preconceptions when analyzing the results five themes were identified; descriptions of the work of the Female client, descriptions of the interaction with the Female client, descriptions of the Female offender, descriptions of backgrounds why women commit crimes and descriptions of society's view on the Female offender.

 The purpose of this case study was to view if there were any differences and similarities between Swedish and American Female leaders, with focus on the Swedish Female leaders. We also wanted to find out if the American Female leaders had problem whit the classcelling.Our case study is a quality method, because we wanted to reach the dep't that quality methods can reach. We interviewed four Swedish Female leaders and tried to get in touch whit American Female leaders but whit out any success. So instead we analyzed already existing research about the American Female leadership. Our result showed that there were some differences between the two countries; in the same time we also found similarities. The classcelling tends to exist more in Sweden than in the US.   .

AbstractThere is a general perception that women are victims and men are the perpetrators of sexual offense. Female perpetrators of sexual crimes have been neglected in the research literature, because Female sex offenders do not live up to preconceptions of Female as motherly and caring. Females tend to be responsible for a very small portion of all crimes and are estimated to account for 1-2% of all sexual offenses. Theories use to discuss Female sex offending include neutralization of behavior, mental health and feminist theory. The aim of the present study was to describe Female sex offenders and examine the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim by analyzing court judgments.

As the title reveals this is a study of Female college students alcohol habits in Kalmar,Sweden. During the spring of 2012 a total of 118 Female students at Linnaeus universityanswered a survey about their alcohol habits. The survey reveled that as many as 67%percent of the answering Female students (according to Audit) have risky drinking habits.The drinking habits are explained using Albert Banduras social learning theory in contextto the Scandinavian drinking pattern. The study concludes that Female alcohol habits needeven further research. Furthermore the study shows that student initiation have an impacton the Female drinking habits and that expectations of that students drink are to some extentimportant to the development of hazardous drinking habits..

The more leadership you get, the more power you will receive. Unfortunately, not everyone is given the same opportunities. This can be seen and proved on the basis of studies in media companies. Our purpose concerns attitudes towards Female leadership in Moscow, Russia. This thesis was based on two study methods, qualitative interviews and observations.

Municipalities with a higher amount of Female representatives has been shown to be more gender equal. Earlier reasearch has also shown that Female politicians are more likely than male politicans to represent immigrants and refugees interests. However, the effect of Female representation has not been tested on other subordinated groups than women. Swedish municipalities have full autonomy regarding refugee reception and local politicians are responsible for the decision on the amount of refugees that the municipality accept. The variations of Female and male politicians in the local assemblies are expected to have different outcomes on the refugee reception, according to Females social backgrounds and experiences.

The aim of this study was to see if there existed any differences between male and Female superiors. The theoretical framework was based on transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leaderships styles. The sample was employees in three companys (n=24). Three hypothesis were formulated: (1) Female superiors are more transformational than male, (2) male superiors are more transactional than Female and (3) male superiors are more laissez-faire than felmale. The method of measurement was a modified version of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire.

This study is about Female leadership. The purpose was to gain a better insight to qualities Female managers in public sector assume they need to make an enjoyable leadership. We were also interested in finding out what they think is the joy and amusement in the leadership and how they consider responsibility and authority. We used a qualitative method interviewing Female leaders at their work. In our analysis of the data we have looked for pattern and key words in a qualitative way.

The main purpose of this masters thesis is to investigate how male public librarians experience working in a Female-dominated area by interviewing eight male public librarians. We want to find if our informants have experienced, or are experiencing, that the library users react differently to the male librarians, as opposed to the Female librarians, with focus on possible prejudices. Besides this we want to investigate if the male librarians have had any reactions from their colleagues based on the fact that they are men working in a Female profession. We are using three theories in this thesis. The first theory is based on an article by Christine L.

This essay is about the Female characters in the books of Hemingway. Are they as simple as some critics say, or are they more complex beings, and which ones of the women in the life of Hemingway, can be noticed in his Female characters? In the work with this essay, biographies of Hemingway as well as a few of his novels have been studied. The selected novels are Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, The Sun also rises and the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The selection was based on the fact that these stories contain good Female characters.

The study is quantitative and is about working men and women?s view of male and Female leadership. The intention of the study is to see if the men and women have a different perception of male and Female leadership and also if they have different personality types. The method used was a survey where the sample is 80 participants, 31 men and 49 women from four different companies. Previous research shows that the perception of male and Female leadership can be different, and that the reason can be prejudices and beliefs.

This study is about the Female entrepreneur in rural areas in Sweden. Five women were interviewed with the aim to examine their way of living (livsform), their motivation, what significance it is to be a woman in business and how Female entrepreneurs can be encouraged to start their own business. The conclusions : ? The women in this study live an independent life , but the their way of life (livsform) has changed during their life ? Female entrepreneurship can be promoted trough greater knowledge of the Female business, better advice to the entrepreneurs, more networking groups and reducing bureaucracy. ? The driving forces for the women is to do what they like and are interested in, at the same time as they have time for the family and children. They also like to work in the rural areas. ? Female entrepreneurship can be promoted through greater knowledge of Female businesses in the community, by creating virtual meeting places such as networking groups and mentor groups on internet.

This essay examines how Female authors are described in the literary canon of two differenteditions of the Swedish education material on the history of literature: Svenska Timmar ?litteraturen. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the depiction of Femaleauthors has changed from the first edition (1991) to the last edition (2012), and how thesechanges correspond with the curriculums Lgy70 and Lgy11.The study is quantitative as well as qualitative. The quantitative part of the study showsthat the percentage of Female authors has increased in the 2012 edition. A greater number ofFemale authors are also portrayed with pictures and headings.

The objective with this essay was to compare the modern epistolary novel Priority by danish author Iselin C. Hermann with the epistolary genre during its heyday in late seventeenth to early nineteenth century. I especially looked at gender: the similarities and differences between the Female character in Priority and the Female characters during the epistolary novels days of glory. I concluded that Priority has the same structure, characteristics as the heyday epistolary novel and that the Female character does not have any typical similarities with its stereotypical Female characters. In addition I also came to the conclusion that she is reminiscent to their original model Héloïse and follows the epistolary novels heyday convention when she dies at the end of the novel..