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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Gender and work"”.
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Gender and work challenges in the informal sector of Uganda : a study of disabled men and women in Mubende and Mityana districts
Compared to disciplines like gender and health, fewer studies have been done on disabled men and women's participation in the informal sector. This may be explained by the fact that for a long time, few disabled men and women in Uganda engaged or participated openly in income generating activities …
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Women on the Line: A Qualitative Study of Women's Experience of Work in the Meat Industry
This study examines the experiences of women who work in the meat industry. Drawing from symbolic interaction and standpoint theory frameworks, this research focuses on how gender, race, and nationality influence work experiences and family life for women in comparison to men in the meat industry. …
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Learning Through Engaging in Women in Trades Introductory Programs
Framed by my interest in gender and work-related learning as viewed through a critical realist lens, and using a theoretical framework rooted in the sociological theorizing of Pierre Bourdieu, the case study described in this document examines what 13 participants in a women in trades introductory …
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How Various Experimental Learning Activities Affecting on Students' Learning Motivation and Satisfaction in Business Education
… study investigates the impact of “real-world” and “hypothetical” experiential learning activities on student satisfaction and motivation among business undergraduates and postgraduates at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Employing a sequential exploratory design, the study consisted of a …
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The gendering of work in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ)
<p>Cultural and creative activities have been part of life since the earliest periods of human history. Their meanings and roles in society have changed over time and have been interpreted in a variety of ways by different groups of people around the world. In this thesis, I focus on the 'creative …
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Professional Immigrant Women's Experiences of Managing Work and Family Conflicts: The Case of Chinese and Taiwanese Faculty in Research Intensive Universities
This study investigates first-generation Chinese and Taiwanese immigrant women faculty's workplace experiences and their strategies for managing work and family demands. By looking at how immigration, ethnicity, gender, and work processes shape these women's ideology and practices, this study …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… analyzes how instances of eating, preparing, and serving food in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson are liminal activities, stationed on the threshold of old and new forms of hospitality, constructions of public and private, gender and work. Because these issues punctuate the broader economic …
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A study of the causes of expatriate failure at Indra Limited, Nairobi, Kenya
… study was to identify the individual factors, work factors and environmental factors influencing expatriate failure at Indra Ltd. The study employed a quantitative descriptive survey design. A questionnaire containing closed ended questions was either administered either via emails or …
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Yoga as Work: Good Work? Bad Work? Emotional Labor, Aesthetic Labor, and Managing Sterotypes
This qualitative research explored the work experiences of twenty-two yoga teachers through in-depth interviews in two different cities. Participants gave insight into their work experiences, their performance of emotional and aesthetic labor, and how they perceive, manage, and navigate the …
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Evaluating the applicability of Maslow's theory of motivation to ancillary staff
… staff in UK National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and Universities (HE). It has been undertaken in response to a request made by managers in these sectors for evidence-based research that could be applied in practice. Maslow's model of motivation was selected to structure the research, to allow …
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Work-family integration in biotechnology : implications for firms and employees
This dissertation addresses the problems and synergies of integrating paid work with other meaningful parts of life, and avoiding pernicious choices between work and family. To do so, I examine the very structure of work organization for professional and technical employees in small and …
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Labor processes within a commodity system: a comparative study of workers in apple packing houses
… forms of capitalist production intersect with gender to shape the labor process in apple packing houses of Virginia, United States and the VI Region, Chile. It illustrates how differences in growers' production systems, as well as traditional undervaluation of women's work, shape the …
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Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessing the level of knowledge and perceived challenges to early diagnosis and intervention among general practitioners in the city of Tripoli, Libya
… problem. It has been shown that early diagnosis and intervention can improve the outcomes in affected children. Lack of knowledge about ASD among health care practitioners can delay the identification of children with ASD as well as early intervention. Currently, a dearth of epidemiological …
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Creating personas, performing selves – gazing beyond the masks of drag and neo-burlesque performance
What if gender is not in the body, but happens to it through a combination of tangible and intangible means – through the coverings that mask, as well as the translations of and on the body? What if gender was malleable? If we cannot break gender, smash it to pieces, then, hopefully we might be …