Gender and Work

A Research and Digitization Project at the Department of History

Read about our research

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

Learn how to use GaW

Find out how to search and compile data in GaW (in Swedish)

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Search, analyze and compile data in the GaW database

The Gender & Work seminar series

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Verb of the month

Leja same

Sent i november 1705 sammankallades häradstinget i jämtländska Hammerdal. På plats fanns lokala nämndemän, befallningsman, länsman och delar av allmogen, däribland Johan Jönsson från Gåxsjö som rest över 15 km i höstmörkret för att närvara. Vid tinget skulle Johan ta chansen att begära det han ansåg var sitt, en del av de 10 Caroliner i skottpengar som Olof Ersson från Sikås erhållit för tre fällda björnar. Under 1600- och 1700-talen likställdes rovdjur, såsom björn, med skaded

GaW3 has started

The third phase of the Gender and Work project (GaW3) is now in full swing. On the GaW blog, research assistant Linnea Henningsson has written a post on the kickoff meeting in January.

Read Linnea Henningsson's blog post here.

Bob Pierik receives dissertation prize

We congratulate Bob Pierik, former guest researcher in GaW, who is awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) for his dissertation Urban Life on the Move: Gender and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam!

The cover page of Bob Pierik's dissertation

Jonas Lindström awarded by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy

Jonas Lindström, research leader of the Gender and Work project, receives a prize from the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for his “significant contributions in the intersection between history, especially history of work, and digital humanities.”