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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Gender Representation"”.
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Gender Representation in Sports Illustrated for Kids
… media has been a known producer of traditional gender images that reflect inequality between sexes. Sport media has been studied endlessly, but one aspect that has not fostered as much attention is sport media, advertising, and children. Sports Illustrated for Kids is the only sport media print …
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Gender Representation and Occupational Portrayals in Primetime Television
<p>This study examined gender representation and occupational portrayals on primetime television, in order to determine if gender-role stereotypes are still present throughout programming, and what progress, if any, has been made in comparison to previous studies. A content analysis was done on …
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Networked tactics for gender representation in the news
This thesis presents research on gender disparities in online news, followed with three open source designs that attempt to address those disparities. Open Gender Tracker is a platform that applies automated gender analysis to electronic content sources. FollowBias is a behavioral experiment on the …
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… French as a foreign language is mastering the gender system. Although there are theories that account for how French native speakers (NSs) master their gender system, it is not fully understood why second language (L2) learners are unable to do the same. The goal of the present study was to …
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Evaluation of gender representation of museum collection positions in the United States.
Gender representation in the workplace is affected by different factors, such as the roles and responsibilities, qualifications, and salary of the profession. The museum community has experienced many changes over the years regarding these factors. To determine the effect of these changes on the …
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Gender Representation in Party Politics: A Case Study of Vhembe District in Limpopo, South Africa
… with freedom of speech, working together without gender biasness, capacity to take part in the public sphere, ability to be registered as a political contender and campaign, be voted and be able to hold office at all stages of government leadership. Therefore, world-over men and women should be …
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Gender Representation in Kenyan Journalism: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Reporting Pedagogy and Faculty-Student Perspectives in Journalism Programs
This study investigates the integration of gender-sensitive reporting (GSR) approaches in journalism education across different Kenyan public and private universities and colleges. There's a broad corpus on gender inclusion in the media; however, little research has examined structural issues in …
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Gender representation in Hong Kong primary English language textbooks : a study of two widely-used textbook series
Gender equality has long been an issue for gender and language research from as early as the 1970s to the contemporary era in the 2010s, and gender stereotyping in textbooks is an issue in many different countries (Davis, 1995; see also Blumberg, 2007, 2008). While secondary English Language …
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The effect of attitude towards a print ad on intention : an analysis of gender representation for brand X
The aim of this dissertation was to investigate to what extent do attractive female models used in product advertising influence target customers. This was taken into account in terms of both attitude and intention, and how they affect each other. The aim was investigated by adopting a quantitative …
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Gender roles in peace and security: A case study of gender representation in the Namibian Police Force management cadre
This thesis is an analysis of gender roles in peace and security with specific focus on the Namibian Police Force (NAMPOL) management eadre. The main objective of the study was to establish the role played by gender representation in the maintenance of peace and security. In line with a qualitative …
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Exploring gender representation in business studies textbooks and its impact on the achievement of learning outcomes in further education and training phase in Mkhanyakude District
… and learning, it becomes crucial to investigate gender representation in school textbooks and its impact on the achievement of learning outcomes. Therefore, this study aimed to explore gender representation in Business Studies textbooks and its impact on the achievement of learning outcomes. The …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
This study investigates how gender representation is rewritten in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, …
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Humanizing Computational Literature Analysis Through Art-Based Visualizations
<p>Inequalities in gender representation and characterization in fictional works are issues that have long been discussed by social scientists. This work addresses these inequalities with two interrelated components. First, it contributes a sentiment and word frequency analysis task focused on …
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Gender Differences in Vocational Interests: A Large, National Study and Comparison to U.S. Occupations
Today’s workforce is divided in gender representation in several critical ways including the lack of women in math intensive STEM fields and the lack of men in teaching and medical fields. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in vocational interests and compares these …
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Gender, Identity, and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films
… The influence of classical Chinese culture on gender representation in martial arts films is examined in order to formulate an understanding of how these films use gender issues to negotiate a sense of cultural identity in the face of unprecedented political change. In particular, the films of …
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The distracted globe: a project in the practice of writing poetry
… English Language, mental health, death and loss, gender representation, sexuality and polarisation. Significant subject matter includes: the English Language, English Literature, places, in particular Blackpool, London and Nottingham, madness, with specific reference to Bipolar Affective Disorder. …
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Gender, Humor and Quality of Life in Workplace Sitcoms: A Content Analysis Examining Agency in Post-Recession Situation Comedies
<p>This study used content analysis to analyze gender representations in post-recession workplace sitcoms using a typology developed using Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. 100 episodes of programming were analyzed by five graduate researchers for a total of 2579 cases. Though men dominated the sample, …
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The Representation of Gender in Contemporary Chinese Television Advertising: An Analysis of Content, Meaning, and Production
This thesis examines how gender is portrayed in Chinese television commercials and how these representations reflect the social and cultural contexts of their production and the institutional practices of advertising production personnel. To date, while there have been a plethora of studies on …
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Bishopness
… sailors hats, and other garments of traditional gender representation work as useful metaphors, symbolically engaging the construction of the literary image accepted in the academy which has produced the unified notion of “Bishopness” some critics still wish to uphold. When themes of gender and …
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