Mid Sweden University

Det är vanligt att sätta ett "kön" på ett yrke: till exempel att sjuksköterska är en "kvinnligt" yrke och rörmokare är ett "manligt yrke". Denna presentation problematiserar dessa etiketter , dels genom att koppla till könsfördelningen inom yrket, dels genom att koppla till de färdigheter som anses nödvändiga i yrket. Yrken som sysselsätter en stor andel kvinnor är korrelerade med omfattande krav på färdigheter inom kommunikation, samarbete och kreativitet, ledarskapsförmåga samt assistans och vård. Åldersfördelningen inom yrken visar på ett inflöde av kvinnor i ledarskapsroller i yrken med kompletteradnde kvinnligt kodade kompetenser.  

In politics, broadly stated ambitions such that a service should be available to all are fairly commonplace. However, evaluation access to service in a broader sense is often difficult and expensive. In this study we use a field experiment to investigate if the reception from the business development community differs contingent on the gender of the client. In the experiment, identical email requests were sent to actors in the enterprise promotion system. The result is that response frequency and time were independent of the gender of the sender. However, the male sender was more often given an explicit invitation to book a time slot. To delve further into the responses, we use sentiment analysis, a ‘big data’ method, to analyse the replies. The analysis reveal that replies to the female sender is more positive. Our conclusion is that even if there are some gender differences we would not consider it to be a systematic discrimination. However, the unconsciousness from public servants should be included in training to increase awareness of this issue.