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

Gender and working hours

Thursday, June 8th 10.15–12
Room Eng 1-1060, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University
Nick Collins (PhD student, Exeter) presents parts of his ongoing research project under the heading “Using time use data to understand gender differences in working hours” (no written paper). The seminar will be in English.

Recent publications

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Verb of the month

Pantsätta myr

En bonde lånade ut pengar med en myr som pant. Myrgräset skulle ha blivit bondens ränta, men det uppdagades att bävrar förstört myren genom att bygga i forsen och orsaka översvämning. Missnöjd vände bonden sig till tinget i Offerdal år 1649. Men bäverns arbete ger inblick i dåtidens kreditväsende!

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.”