Att vara statsminister är mest naturligt för män - Ungdomars attityder till genussystemet och dess orsaker
(2014) STVK02 20132Department of Political Science
Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- This thesis examines youth attitudes toward the gender-system and the believed causes of gender roles: biology or social factors. The study has been designed as a survey conducted among 116 Swedish 9th graders, where the students had to classify weather stereotype roles and tasks are more natural for one sex than the other, or both. By comparing the answers of the pupils with respect to their own sex and also between the two different schools, the study shows that girls tend to have a more gender-equal attitude towards issues connected to power-structure than boys. Boys are more varied in their attitudes towards these questions than girls. A vast majority of the youths claim social factors to be of more importance than biological ones.... (More)
- This thesis examines youth attitudes toward the gender-system and the believed causes of gender roles: biology or social factors. The study has been designed as a survey conducted among 116 Swedish 9th graders, where the students had to classify weather stereotype roles and tasks are more natural for one sex than the other, or both. By comparing the answers of the pupils with respect to their own sex and also between the two different schools, the study shows that girls tend to have a more gender-equal attitude towards issues connected to power-structure than boys. Boys are more varied in their attitudes towards these questions than girls. A vast majority of the youths claim social factors to be of more importance than biological ones. Special effort has also been made in analyzing one specific question, regarding the attitudes of the youths toward the position of prime minister/president. The results indicate that a majority of the girls believe that the post as a prime-minister/president is more natural for boys. This correlates with the fact that more girls than boys believe this specific position is bound by biological factors. (Less)
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- author
- Hallman, Malin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20132
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Gender-system, gender role, biological factors, social construction, youths, Hirdman, feminism
- language
- English
- id
- 4229040
- date added to LUP
- 2014-02-04 18:45:47
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:44
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abstract = {{This thesis examines youth attitudes toward the gender-system and the believed causes of gender roles: biology or social factors. The study has been designed as a survey conducted among 116 Swedish 9th graders, where the students had to classify weather stereotype roles and tasks are more natural for one sex than the other, or both. By comparing the answers of the pupils with respect to their own sex and also between the two different schools, the study shows that girls tend to have a more gender-equal attitude towards issues connected to power-structure than boys. Boys are more varied in their attitudes towards these questions than girls. A vast majority of the youths claim social factors to be of more importance than biological ones. Special effort has also been made in analyzing one specific question, regarding the attitudes of the youths toward the position of prime minister/president. The results indicate that a majority of the girls believe that the post as a prime-minister/president is more natural for boys. This correlates with the fact that more girls than boys believe this specific position is bound by biological factors.}},
author = {{Hallman, Malin}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Att vara statsminister är mest naturligt för män - Ungdomars attityder till genussystemet och dess orsaker}},
year = {{2014}},
}