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Showing 1 to 20 of 606 for “"Gender Roles"”.
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The Relationship between Goal Orientation and Gender Roles
… between a person’s goal orientation and the gender roles that they adopt. The relationship between gender and goal orientation has been studied for years, but the results have been inconclusive. Some studies find a gender difference and some studies do not. For this reason, this study …
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Leadership Emergence and Gender Roles: A Contextual Examination
Research suggests that gender role, rather than sex, is associated with the perception of individuals as leaders. The current study tests the effect of gender role on leadership emergence by using a pattern approach and manipulating task-type. 200 female undergraduate subjects, categorized based on …
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Latin Oxford: dominance, power, and gender roles in dancing salsa
… months of training to become skilled. It is a gendered partner dance, ie, the standard model is men performing the leading role, and women following.<br/><br/>Central to this investigation is a social experiment into reversing the roles, involving a group of dancers who take a course in which …
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Gender roles, homophobia, and the closet: Experiences of queer women
… is a part of sets expectations based on their gender. This paper explores how the relationship between prescribed gender roles, internalized homophobia, and coming out of the closet are related. A focus group of seven women who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and queer was …
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Exploring Gender Roles and Gender Equality within the Evangelical Church
… better understanding of perceptions of gender roles and gender equality among members of the Evangelical Church and to determine whether these perceptions differ by gender. The evangelical community’s ideologies and values have come to shape social and political dialogues within the …
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Internal Migration, Networks and Gender Roles among Domestic Workers in Vietnam
This thesis examines social networks and gender roles among domestic workers who are rural-to-urban female migrants in Vietnam. Using qualitative data collected from 10 in-depth interviews and one focus group with 17 domestic workers and one interview with a NGO staff member, I argue that networks …
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Migration and Changing Gender Roles : Experiences of Turkish Migrants in Finland
… power relations in their families. As a result, gender roles at home may also change. While existing studies on migration focus on migrants' socio-economic integration into host societies, their family formation and gender roles at home are not well explored. Rather than attributing these roles …
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Attitudes toward adoption by same-sex couples: Do gender roles matter?
… have considered how the perceived importance of gender role models factors into attitudes toward adoption by same-sex couples. Therefore, the present study experimentally investigated attitudes toward adoption by same-sex couples while considering the impact of parental gender roles on these …
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La New Mujer: How Economic Factors Redefine Gender Roles for Latina Immigrants
… workforce are empowered to redefine traditional gender roles as they gain economic autonomy. The scholar focuses on how gender roles are changing with greater economic gains in two specific spheres: the home and the workplace. The first part of this study elaborates on the state of Latina …
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Differences in Depressive Symptoms as a Function of Gender, Roles, and Rumination
… men. The current study examined the effects of gender, socialized gender roles, rumination, and neuroticism on symptoms of depression in young adults. As predicted, rumination mediated the relationship between gender and depression, and socialized gender roles had a greater explanatory power for …
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Arsenal of femininity: Women, relationships, and gender roles during World War II
… during World War Two permanently expanded the gender roles of women in American society. However, historians Leila J Rupp, Susan Hartmann, D’Ann Campbell, and Maureen Honey have shown that during the war, publicly espoused gender roles continued to restrict women to the point of “going back to …
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Fatherhood and a Partner's Postpartum Depression: Coping, Relationship Satisfaction, Gender Roles, and Empathy
… relationship satisfaction, empathy, and views on gender. Five fathers, between the ages of 27 and 46 volunteered their participation in this study. Fathers were recruited through their partners from medical and mental health clinics and agencies offering services to new mothers or mothers …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
In this thesis, I discuss the significance of gender in Mildred Walker’s novels The Curlew’s Cry and Winter Wheat. Walker wrote and situates both narratives in Montana, supporting my argument that literature of the American West remains a productive area for examining gender roles. The Curlew’s Cry …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
In this thesis, I discuss the significance of gender in Mildred Walker’s novels The Curlew’s Cry and Winter Wheat. Walker wrote and situates both narratives in Montana, supporting my argument that literature of the American West remains a productive area for examining gender roles. The Curlew’s Cry …
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Celtic Women in Context: Comparative Perspectives on Stereotypes and Gender Roles of Ancient Women
… of antiquity. Evidence of the behaviour and roles of these women is sparse, and when they are mentioned, their true nature has the potential to be shrouded in bias, leading to a possible misrepresentation. Classical authors, such as Tacitus, Dio and Caesar had the propensity to write about …
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The Impact of Gender Roles on Girls Participation in Primary Education in Bunda District
… aim of this study was to determine the impact of gender roles on female students’ participation in primary education in Mugeta and Kunzugu wards in Bunda district. The study was mainly qualitative and data were collected using focused group discussions, semi-structured interviews, documentary …
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