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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Gender imbalance"”.
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The ICT gender imbalance in schools and beyond: missed opportunities
… male and female students in mixed and single gender schools and female students taught in mixed or single sex classroom contexts. Samples of 150 students were questioned from which 120 were useable; 40 from each of the three participating schools. In two cases 25 students were Key Stage 4 …
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Men underrepresentation in Early Childhood Education in Iceland
… and highly debated by many researchers. Gender imbalance and feminization of the pre-school teaching profession has become a common practice for decades. The primary objective of this thesis was to seek an in-depth understanding of how socially constructed gender norms contribute to male …
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The Women's Technology Program : EECS outreach for high school students
… research evaluating the state of the current gender imbalance in EECS as well as research describing other initiatives for improvement. I then describe the design and implementation of WTP at a level that it could be replicated by other universities. Finally, I analyze the results of WTP's …
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Leveling The Playing Field: Learning From Women Leaders In Professional Sports
… WNBA and MLB, I sought to understand why this gender imbalance may exist, learn the experiences of women currently working in professional sports and most importantly generate suggestions for solutions to close this disparity. This capstone is a sound exploration into this topic and provides a …
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BEING A WOMAN IN THE WORKPLACE
… 500 companies. It takes a deeper look into this gender gap and fully examines the hidden barriers that women face when progressing through their careers. I examine this through an analysis of articles, studies, interviews and testimonials that have been published around this subject. The Time’s …
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Les perturbateurs endocriniens : les défis entourant la réglementation de ces substances chimiques au niveau international, canadien et européen
… obesity, neurobehavioural disorders, but also gender imbalance, fertility disorders and the general decline of intelligence quotient. Pursuant to their intrinsic properties, EDs cannot be treated like any other chemicals, therefore, they cannot be subject to the same risk assessment as the one …
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Parallel Islands: A Diversity Aware Tool For Parallel Computing Education
… PDC skills, it is also attempting to overcome a gender imbalance in CS. The necessity to create the materials required for increasing PDC education provides an opportunity to make strides in increasing diversity in CS as well. Therefore, Parallel Islands was created as a tool to aid in …
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FEMINIZM4ALL : a framework for feminist technology intervention
… to determine that the primary reason for the gender imbalance in technological spaces is based in hostile work environments and not in the fact that women are disinterested as recent psychological research claims. This lack of diversity affects how technology products are shaped and how …
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… portrayal of female trauma and the subsequent gendered division in its critical reception. The film centers on Celeste, a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative that transforms her personal trauma into a public spectacle and a critique of …
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Men in public relations: saving an endangered species
… of The Velvet Ghetto, the seminal work on gender in public relations. Looking ahead, the study forecast a field that was "ghettoized" as the workforce became increasingly female. Has that been the case? Since the mid-eighties, women have solidified their hold at nearly all levels in the …
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Assessment Practices Of Students With Learning Disabilities In Lebanese Private Schools: A National Survey
… revealed a Lebanese Context marked by a critical gender imbalance with a very high female dominance and a significant inaccuracy in ethical standards. Input evaluation revealed that almost half of the teachers and administrators expressed being ill prepared in assessing student performance as a …
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Does An MBA Help Women? : A Comparative Study Of The Career Progress And Labour Market Position Of Part Time Male And Female MBA Graduates
… if the organisation is male dominated, if the gender imbalance occurs at senior levels and if women occupy traditionally female and non powerful roles.
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Women at the top: an investigation into the lived experience of women executives holding top posts in the UK
In the contemporary workplace persistent gender imbalance at top executive levels is a matter of public and political debate in the context of a growing realisation that this phenomenon is not only a social and cultural problem, it is also a business problem. From the perspective of improving …
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Access of female primary school teachers to in-service training colleges : The case of Chongwe district
… zone. From the collected data, the causes of the gender imbalance in the in-service teachers' colleges (with the female teachers lesser represented) have been discussed. It will be noticed that some of the causes were a making of the government, through the Ministry of Education and its …
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Access of female primary school teachers to in-service training colleges : The case of Chongwe district
… zone. From the collected data, the causes of the gender imbalance in the in-service teachers' colleges (with the female teachers lesser represented) have been discussed. It will be noticed that some of the causes were a making of the government, through the Ministry of Education and its …
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Gender gaps in School administrative positions: a comparative study of school administrators in selected rural and urban schools in Chilanga District. a qualitative studyDY
… work was a case study aimed at investigating gender gaps in school administrative positions in Chilanga district. Its main objective were to assess the gender gaps in school administrative positions with regards to rural and urban schools in Chilanga district. The literature reviewed showed …
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Gender gaps in School administrative positions: a comparative study of school administrators in selected rural and urban schools in Chilanga District. a qualitative studyDY
… work was a case study aimed at investigating gender gaps in school administrative positions in Chilanga district. Its main objective were to assess the gender gaps in school administrative positions with regards to rural and urban schools in Chilanga district. The literature reviewed showed …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
Over the past decade, with the increasing gender imbalance in Hong Kong, unmarried women in their 30s and 40s are often stigmatised as ‘leftover women’. Despite being a popular media topic, this phenomenon has attracted little scholarly attention. My research illuminates this under-researched topic …
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The challenges facing recruitment and retention of doctors in obstetrics and gynaecology in Ireland
… obstetrician gynaecologists from different ages, genders and geographical locations across the country. For medical students, factors that increased the attraction to the specialty were continuity of care (p= 0.002), delivering babies (p=0.004), female patients only (p=0.026), limited focus of …
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