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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Gender segregation"”.
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Gender Segregation In Educational Choice - Contributory Factors and Subsequent Implications for Women
… been shown in recent years in the importance of 'gender equity within the educational system. Since the early 1990's the Irish Educational System has been the focus of much attention and scrutiny. Various government publications were developed , and in 1995 a White Paper on education was published …
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Women, innovation, entrepreneurship : essays on designing and improving education
Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur are not gender-neutral concepts.[1] In the United States, men are twice as likely to be involved in entrepreneurship than women. Women have founded or led only 11% of venture capital backed US firms. Moreover, women-led firms have received only 7% of venture …
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Barriers to women’s employment and the extent of gender inequality in the labour market in Turkey
This thesis investigates gender inequalities in employment outcomes in Turkey in the context of low employment rates of women, occupational gender segregation and gender wage differentials. The first empirical chapter of the thesis sheds light on the role of traditional or conservative social norms …
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Exclusion from gender counter-stereotypic activities: Proximal and distal effects
… we investigated whether exclusion from gender stereotypic vs. counter-stereotypic activities affects both how threatening the experience is and beliefs about gender stereotypes. The effects of exclusion activity on need threat and beliefs about gender stereotypes were explored in a …
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The meeting point : rethinking public space in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
… aspects linked to the nature of the city: 01. Gender Segregation: Questioning what actually IS public if both males and females can't access these spaces freely. 02. The development of the city since the oil boom: Looking at social, economic, demographic and urban ramifications. My thesis …
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Thinking Architecture
… at the center, to the separate walkways for each gender, symbolize the importance of gender segregation and yet a common ground for unity and equality at the holy site. A walk through the corridor leads to the washing area for self cleansing and ritual ablution in preparation for entering the …
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Gender a pracovní síla ve výrobních podnicích na Chomutovsku
Diploma thesis "Gender and manpower in production companies in the Chomutov region" is focused on historically and sociologically oriented research of employment of men and women in production companies in the Chomutov region over last 50 and 70 years respectively. The main aspects which are …
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Social networking in higher education: academics' attitudes, uses, motivations and concerns
… for educational purposes, particularly in the gender segregated educational setting of Saudi Arabian universities. This study identifies faculty members’ perspectives on SNSs and the ways in which academics in Saudi Arabia employ these social networks as educational tools to improve teaching …
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Women on the Line: A Qualitative Study of Women's Experience of Work in the Meat Industry
… 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. This study is based on 15 in-depth interviews with men and women who work in management positions and in the processing …
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Ensuring Gender Equality Education through Awareness Creation among Community Members.” A case of Igwamanoni Village,Kahama District
… of infrastructures, lack of water, Ignorance, Gender segregation and lack of health centers. The identified needs included need for the improvement of the infrastructures, improved access to health services, improvement of water supply and ensuring gender equality in education which was also …
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Coping and Suicide Amongst ‘the Lads’: Expectations of masculinity in post-traditional Ireland
… and interviews to retrieve information on the gendered over-representation in suicidal behaviours among of young, Irish working-class men. In addition to suicide, I focused extensively on ideas of ‘gender appropriate’ behaviours and related issues such as alcohol, - and drug abuse and other …
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The gender landscape of the Taiwanese public-sector labour market
This thesis examines the interplay between gender, family, and the Taiwanese public-sector labour market at national, local, and individual levels. It focuses on gendered occupational segregation, worker mobility in terms of job transfers and promotion, everyday work–life arrangements, and the …
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A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis on Transgender Athletes in the English News Media
… thesis studies present-day discourses on transgender athletes in the English news media. It defines discourses as linguistic activities as well as social practices that are in a dialectic relationship with the material world. Discourses are seen as powerful tools for spreading ideologies, and …
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Gender equity in physical education: an examination of gender-biased communication and teacher behaviors
… education remains a male-dominated terrain where gender biases are reproduced and typically unchallenged (Colwell, 1999; Klomsten, Marsh, & Skaalvik, 2005; Messner, 1988, 1990; Scranton, 1990). Under the lens of critical feminist theory, this investigation examined the language and behaviors …
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What is a ‘Good’ Job? Cultural Logics of Occupational Prestige
… first study focuses on the role of gender, and finds that people grant a “segregation premium” which rewards the gender segregation of jobs with occupational prestige – whether they are male or female. The second study focuses on the role of race, and finds that people perceive jobs …
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A cross-cultural investigation of learning among Hadza and BaYaka hunter- gatherer children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo
… to variation in teaching, (2) the development of gender-typed play and gender segregation during play among hunter- gatherer children and adolescents, and (3) how cultural and ecological variation contributed to differences in children’s participation in economic work. Results showed that …
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A Pioneering Legacy: Early Women Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1839 -1861
… presented new opportunities to contest gender inequality through equal participation in photographic societies, image exhibition in parity with men, and advertising commercial photographic studios in equal but unregulated competition for new clientele. Women’s presence in the new …
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An Evaluation of Blended Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… distinctive in comparison to rest of the world. Gender segregation and restriction of direct communication between men and women form the basis of several limitations for learning and access to resources. Blended Learning (BL), in this context provides for an interesting research …
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A critical discourse analysis of social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-language blogs posted between 2009 and 2012
… work environments, women and sports, and gender segregation. Using a three-levelled analysis, the posts at hand have been examined from textual, intertextual and socio-cognitive perspectives. The textual level consists of four linguistic parameters: social actor representation, process …
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Socio-economic efficacy of Mahila Bazaar
… In the social context of the country, where gender segregation is high, this gender-specific market aims to provide safety to the women vendors who face harassment and abuse in other mixed-gender vendor markets of the city. Male vendors and public officials often cause this harassment. …
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