Studenters attityder till arbetsmarknad och lön
FeminismLabour marketEthnicityClass.Gender studiesGenusvetenskapSocial sciencesSamhällsvetenskaperSociologySociologiSociology of labourSociology of enterpriseArbetslivssociologiFöretagssociologiSocial SciencesLaw and Political Science
This essay examines whether feminist theory can give a plausible answer to the question: does female and male students have different attitudes towards the labour market and towards wages? Further more, I examine if factors such as class and ethnicity affect student's attitudes. These questions are investigated through a quantitative study of students at four educations on two different universities in Sweden. Two of the educations have a high degree of female students, and the other two represent educations with at high degree of male students.The main conclusion is based on the quantitative research results. Female and male student's attitudes are similar in some cases. However, the attitudes are different when it regards the student's own opinions about how they think that their knowledge is going to be valued on the labour market and their ability to get employment. Male students tend to have a more positive attitude than female students about their knowledge and ability on the labour market. This results gives support to feminist theory, more exactly to the hypothesis that women are subordinate in relation to men, and that this structure are maintained through internalised attitudes about traditional gender roles.