they also express how the gender contracts are locally constructed on other occasions the specific contract is less explicit stenbacka and forsberg when young women choose to relocate it is based on a combination of own will capacity and dreams and also on what is perceived as possible and obvious on the basis of for instance local gender traditions and gender perceptions in other words perceptions of how young men and women respectively oughtcanare expected to behave in other words on the basis of the local and regional gender contracts