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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Businesswomen"”.
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Fragments of Home: Domestic Businesswomen and Collective Motherhood
One in three children in the United States live in a single parent household; yet, the most likely demographic to experience eviction in the U.S. is low-income single mothers. This thesis proposes a framework for thinking about communal family structures, housing security, and intimate domestic …
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What to Wear: Businesswomen's Choice of Professional Dress
… the Choice of Professional Dress system and businesswomen's choice of professional dress along the classic–innovative fashion continuum (e.g., whether the professional dress is considered by the dress adopter as more classic or more innovative). A model was developed for this study to …
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Employability of Individuals with Varying Disabilities and Costs of Needed Workplace Accommodations.
… participants for this study were businessmen and businesswomen in Southwestern Virginia who possessed the ability to hire employees. Results indicated that an individual with a physical disability was thought of as more employable and favorable than a nondisabled individual, a blind individual, …
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“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893
… and designed by two British philanthropists and businesswomen, the Irish Villages presented an Irishness shaped by Ireland’s long history of colonial rule. For Irish Americans living in the United States during the late nineteenth century, the Irish Villages offered a particularly well-suited …
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Lifting the Veil off Widowhood: Portraits of Transformation
… the age of 55, who are professionals, educators, businesswomen, and community activists, to learn how their lives have been transformed since the death of their spouse. For this study, the death of a spouse was seen as a transforming event in the life of a married woman. The nature of this …
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The study of independent African migrant women in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) : their lives and work experiences
… has a gender profile. SkPIed, professional and businesswomen of African origin are now migrating independently to South Africa. This new face oftAfrican migration is transforming South African society and culture. African women from other countries have migrated to South Africa with parts of …
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Fulfilling roles: Midland women, developing roles and identities C.1760-1860
… most part, notwithstanding their achievements as businesswomen, religious figures and contributors to science and literature, have escaped the notice of scholars of women’s history. Yet knowledge of women’s activities beyond feminist campaigns can broaden our understanding of what may have been …
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Marketing indigeneity: identity negotiations of two generations of informal vending women in neoliberal Bolivia
… in the regional social imaginary as savvy businesswomen and traders. In fact, Cochabamba’s cholas have consciously fed this dual identity through the centuries, thus blurring the boundaries between indigeneity and entrepreneurship. In the dissertation, I argue that cholas position …
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Developing evaluation constructs in management and entrepreneurship for women construction SMMEs
Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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Women in Public Relations: Our Past, Present, and Future
Since abolition, women have used the media to bring attention to causes and injustices in society. Issues faced by these women are some of the same issues faced by women in public relations today and possibly the future. This paper is the history of the women of pre-professional public relations in …
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Female entrepreneurship and access to finance in Nigeria through a gendered lens.
The purpose of this research project is to critically explore and articulate the experiences of female entrepreneurs in Nigeria while accessing finance for business growth through a gendered lens. Despite the significant growth in the level of female entrepreneurship across the world - such as is …
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The effects of mobile phones in social and economic development : the case of female microentrepreneurs in Chennai, India
This dissertation participates in the grand debate on whether ideas or technology change social structures that affect the lives of individuals. At its broadest and based on its findings, this dissertation makes the argument that neither ideas nor technology takes precedence. While technology can …
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Exploring challenges that affect female informal entrepreneurs in the central business district of Richards Bay and Empangeni
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Management Sciences: Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …