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)

Search GaW

Search, analyze and compile data in the GaW database

The Gender & Work seminar series

Women in family business

Thursday, October 12th at 13.15–15
Room Eng 22-1008, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University

Cecilia Candréus (researcher, textilvetenskap, UU) presents an article manuscript entitled 'Wife, widow and daughter - women's occupational roles in a family business'. Participants can get the manuscript by e-mailing Karin (karin.jansson@hist.uu.se) after October 5th.

Relational approaches to the historical sociology of work

Thursday, Decem

Recent publications

More publications

Verb of the month

Förestå någons hushållning

En änka hade förestått sin ogifte sons hushållning “både inne och ute dels som Matmoder och dels som Piga”. Sonen, som var bonde i Sunne socken i Jämtland, påstod i en arvstvist i rätten år 1789 att han inte hade bett om sin mors hjälp med hushållningen utan åtagit sig den själv.

Apply for a PhD position in Gender and Work

Are you interested in using the methodology of the research project Gender and Work (GaW) in studies of other countries than Sweden? The Department of History at Uppsala University announces a fully funded PhD position. The PhD student will be an active member of GaW. The last day for application is October 16th.

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.”