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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Filipino women"”.
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Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle
… the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose first marriage remained intact and whose first birth 'interval is positive . It identifies the main work sequence s of Filipino women during the three …
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Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle
… the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose first marriage remained intact and whose first birth 'interval is positive . It identifies the main work sequence s of Filipino women during the three …
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Care of Aging Parents: The Experiences of Middle-Aged Filipino Women
… parent care as experienced by middle-aged Filipino women, particularly those who have resided in the United States for over 20 years. There is little information known about this topic; therefore, a grounded theory study design was utilized. Open-ended, semi-structured interviews of 29 …
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Of nimble fingers and shy smiles: Effects of employment in transnational factories on the status of Filipino women workers
… TNC export-oriented factories on the status of Filipino women. The research questions focused on the work conditions of women workers in the TNC factories, changes in family dynamics and degree of workers' autonomy and independence as brought about by factory employment. The study was conducted …
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Toward Financial Inclusion and Female Empowerment through Microfinance Development Initiatives in Manila and Central Luzon, Philippines
… the impact of microfinance on the empowerment of Filipino women in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Central Luzon (Region II) regions of the Philippines. Microfinance in the Philippines is a tool of varied uses, implementations, and results. Those include four, in the main: pursuit of …
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The appearance of Filipina nationalism: body, nation, empire
… the colonial Philippines and the United States, Filipino women actively constructed their own national identities through the stylized presentation of their physical bodies in order to navigate through the multilayered power struggles and hierarchies created by intersecting Filipino nationalist …
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Knowledge, practice and barriers concerning cervical cancer screening among female overseas Filipino workers: a web-based mixed methods approach
… the second cause of cancer related mortality for Filipino women. Mortality rates of cervical cancer are high amongst Filipino women; however, uptake of cervical cancer screening (e.g., pap-testing) is low. In 2015, 2.34 million overseas Filipino workers (OFW) were recorded. Migration may present …
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IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN? POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES IN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP APPS
Friend-finding technologies for women are new media peddling an old promise: female empowerment through mediated possibilities of friendship, and software that connects them. Powered by algorithms that help structure their company, these applications (apps) turn out remarkable not for bridging …
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The domestic worker as postcolonial subject : a policy and discourse analysis of the Canadian Government's "Caregiver Program"
This qualitative research explores the discursive construction of the notion of temporary foreign workers, examines in what sense migrant domestic workers can be understood as postcolonial subjects, and analyzes the nature of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in the context of the …