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Åkerlund, Linnea, 2015. Kvinnliga virkesköpare inom Holmen Skog. First cycle, G2E. Skinnskatteberg: SLU, School for Forest Management

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Holmen Skog has only five out of 70 wood buyers who are women, This report is seen as a step in the process towards gender balance in the company. This is a problem that is equal over the entire forest industry in Sweden. They all think that sexual equal workplaces are very important to remain competitive, see things from different perspectives and development of the company.
The survey was done by sending out questionnaires to all women who work and have worked as a wood buyer at Holmen, and as many men of both categories. These four categories became a total of twenty persons. To map the industry another questionnaire was sent out to the six largest forest companies in Sweden.
The survey found that female wood buyers not finished their work earlier than men did, as they thought before. What makes women and men feel comfortable in this profession is the feeling of freedom with responsibility, the possibility to control the days of work and the opportunity to be outdoor. What the both gender is missing in the profession is daily contact with colleagues, high salary and a calm working pace. Those who quit felt more often stressed and that they could not combine family, leisure and work in a balanced way, compared with those who still work as wood buyers. Of all women have almost 40 percent, 20 percent of men, experienced sexism in their meeting with forest owners, but not in contact with employees and contractors. Men have never felt discriminated associated with their profession, but it has 33 percent of women.
To increase the number of female wood buyers at Holmen Skog is my solution to inform what the profession means before recruitment, creating a sense of commonality through female network and common goals current timber volumes, prevent stress, encourage women’s work, to set clear goals to work against and work with the policy of equality and diversity and to try to reach all the way to the forest owners with it.

Main title:Kvinnliga virkesköpare inom Holmen Skog
Authors:Åkerlund, Linnea
Supervisor:Börjesson, Börje
Examiner:Sundstedt, Eric
Series:Examensarbete / SLU, Skogsmästarprogrammet
Volume/Sequential designation:UNSPECIFIED
Year of Publication:2015
Level and depth descriptor:First cycle, G2E
Student's programme affiliation:SY002 Forest Management - Bachelor's Programme 180 HEC
Supervising department:(S) > School for Forest Management
Keywords:skog, kvinnor, jämställdhet
URN:NBN:urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-4557
Permanent URL:
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-4557
Subject. Use of subject categories until 2023-04-30.:Agricultural economics and policies
Forestry - General aspects
Social sciences, humanities and education
Language:Swedish
Deposited On:01 Jul 2015 14:15
Metadata Last Modified:01 Jul 2015 14:15

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