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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Double Standards"”.
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Double Standards In Self-Deception: The Development Of The Self-Other Double Standards Scale
… and used this relationship to create the Double Standards scale. </p> <p>In the current research, participants completed several surveys online. They then came into the lab, where they were be randomly assigned to Affirmed and Deaffirmed conditions. It was found that asking participants to …
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Pour Her a Double (Standard): Moral Backlash as a Response to Drinking Double Standards
Double standards regarding women’s alcohol use are prevalent despite consumption rates similar to men. These double standards have various consequences, such as negative attributions and attitudes towards women who drink. Theoretical perspectives have focused on physiological differences and gender …
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A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution
… its implementation of the ostensibly political Double Standards resolution, it re-examines the concept that politics captured the sports movement. Instead it is argued that sporting impetuses based in a desire for institutional survival retained primacy within the Board's decision making. In …
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Norms, self-interest and effectiveness: explaining double standards in EU reactions to violations of democratic principles in sub-Saharan Africa
… has been criticised as being characterised by „double standards‟, meaning that similar violations of democratic principles have led to a different response from the EU. This dissertation searches for explanations for these double standards. In-depth comparative studies on the motivations for …
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Mommy's Tired
… disturbing glimpses of narcissistic tendencies, double standards, and violent desires, things are not so straightforward when mommy's tired.
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The Lion & The Ringmaster: Croatia's Accession to the European Union
… would be to promote awareness of the double standards and discriminations occurring within the EU, which victimize Central and Eastern European states, so that these countries may be able to preserve their identity and sovereignty.</p>
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Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Application Letters: The Interplay of Gender Stereotypicality, Argument Structure, and Linguistic Features
… but moderately, satisfying in this way the double standards request to be both agentic and communal. In the latter case, they confirmed the participants’ gender expectations, not violating in this way their gender prescriptions. The final path model revealed different paths, in which the …
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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
… absent mother, internalized misogyny, sexual double standards, and parenting woes, all of which combine to create an image of women’s issues and realities in the early 2000s. As the third wave of feminism begins to taper off and the fourth wave rises, Madeline Miller’s Circe retells The …
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The protection of human rights in Africa
… state. In this way African states applied double standards when it comes to the violation of human rights especially because they were critical of the racist policies of the South African government. The adoption of the Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights in 1981 by the OAU has provided a …
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Fear and Fascination: A Study of Thomas Hardy and the New Woman
… the destructive power caused by hypocrisy and double standards, making many consider him to be among the first feminists. These conflicting perspectives reflect the internal ambiguities of a gifted man torn between wanting to maintain the conservative comfort of the Victorian era while yearning …
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Gender-specific care, fertility health, and family planning in the military health system : a case study exploring the barriers that impact retention of the female Navy Nurse Corps officer.
… include sexism, gender inequality, and double standards. This qualitative case study provides an intimate understanding of the specific challenges that servicewomen experience while navigating reproductive health, family planning or prevention, and role conflict and explains how these …
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The mobile pillars of sexual relationships. Pleasures and pressures: the practice of sexting in a gendered society amongst young people in South Africa.
… practices are fraught with gender inequities and double standards, young women are fighting to maintain a favourable online persona, by countering the derogatory term ‘fuck-boy’. Currently South African law prohibits sexting amongst minors, punishable as a crime. This dissertation argues that …
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Perceived factors that influence achievement of tenure for African American faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Old Dominion University
… factors identified: (a) institutional fit, (b) double standards, (c) racism, (d) prejudicial attitudes and perceptions, and (e) trust and dishonesty. The challenge to attain tenure, despite the obstacles are viewed by the participants in this study as an intrinsic motivation to stay and “play …
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Women who buy sex in Australia: From social representations to lived experiences
… about female agency to buy sex, gendered double standards regarding expected behaviour, and commercial sex as being exploitative. Experiential data was obtained through Skype interviews with 17 sex workers, and the results of thematic analysis provide a thorough description of the market …
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The international criminal court and the responsibility to protect
… similar problems of implementation and double standards, being closely connected to the political structure of the international community, starting with the UN Security Council. The connection between the International Criminal Court and the responsibility to protect has been the …
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Unpicking the blanket: Escaping the bed we were made to lie in
… within society, provides insight into the double standards that still exist in relation to gender equality. Examining how society has stitched womanhood together, it became evident that humanity continues to look at woman and womanhood through a narrow lenses that is steeped in gender bias. …
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They say cutbacks: we say fightback. A case study of a grassroots anti-water charges community campaign group in Crumlin, Dublin using a participatory action research (PAR)approach
… inflicted harsh austerity measures, government double standards and perceptions of systemic corruption. This central finding has been corroborated by previous research undertaken by Hearne (2015) on the same topic. The study also found that the local Crumlin campaign had adopted aspects of …
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Exploring factors influencing the expression of sexuality in UK-born South Asian women: A phenomenological approach
… and factors which may contribute to leading a double life. The second theme, ‘upbringing and expectations’ considers rules that the participants had been brought up with and how these have changed over time, also considering implications and challenges participants described experiencing as a …
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Hegemoninis vyriškumas Lietuvos kariuomenėje /
… not legally restricted, in practice, women face double standards, bias, devaluation, and excessive protection. Male soldiers occupy the highest positions in the Lithuanian military, benefiting from patriarchal dividends. Sections where work is oriented towards specific knowledge and less physical …
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… been particularly sensitive to anthropocentric double standards in denying mental capacities to animals, and is home to the original defenders of “minimal” accounts of rationality. This project selectively draws from this marginalized tradition to promote a healthy skepticism toward animal …
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