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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Minority Women"”.
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Academic Bias Towards Minority Women
… specifically in regards to African American women in the classroom. There are some areas where very little research has been done surrounding minority females academic success; these gaps have been compensated with information about how these issues plague women in general. It is the …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
… multiple laws collude with patriarchy to define minority women’s positions in the state, society, and the community? And How do religious minority women in a postcolonial context selectively seek, apply, and subvert these multiple laws to achieve their own objectives? Broadly speaking, this …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
… multiple laws collude with patriarchy to define minority women’s positions in the state, society, and the community? And How do religious minority women in a postcolonial context selectively seek, apply, and subvert these multiple laws to achieve their own objectives? Broadly speaking, this …
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Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women
… with rejection sensitivity in young adult sexual minority women. The relationships between sexual identity centrality and current alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, and sexual minority stress outcomes were also examined with race as a potential moderator. African American/Black and …
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Family Experiences of Single Sexual Minority Women from the Baby Boom
… heterosexual relationship. Historically, lesbian women have been considered single because their relationships were not legally recognized. Single women and lesbian women have had more choices to live outside heterosexual marriage, financially and with social acceptability, in the later portion of …
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Reflecting on Racial Microaggressions: The Impact on Food Consumption in Minority Women
<p>U.S. laws, policies, and practices have been implemented to reduce forms of overt racism and discrimination. These structural barriers have been effective (e.g., <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762607/#R22">Dovido & Gaertner, 2000</a>; <a …
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Doula Support as a Means to Improve Birth Outcomes for Minority Women
… doula care has been recommended for all pregnant women as a means to prevent adverse birth outcomes. Despite this, the population most in need of such support in unable to access doula services due to low socioeconomic status, availability of services, and cultural inaccessibility. This paper …
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Clinically Assisted Reproduction Among Sexual Minority Women: Plans, Pivots, And Partnered-Decisions
… focused on the efforts to conceive among sexual minority women (SMW) in same-sex couples has expanded in breadth and depth in recent decades. Yet, as consistent evidence of health disparities among SMW, along with sociopolitical and technological transformations that have changed notions of …
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Our Health Matters: Promoting the Health of Sexual Minority Women in the New Media Landscape
… for promoting the health and wellness of sexual minority women. As a population that has historically been underserved by the healthcare system, sexual minority women face multiple barriers to achieving positive health outcomes. They are often less likely to access preventive healthcare services …
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Improving Organizational Climates at HBCUS: Leveraging the Voices of Underrepresented, Minority Women Faculty and Instructors
… explores lived experiences of underrepresented,minority (URM) women faculty and instructors at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), examining how they navigate and respond to the complexities of structural and systemic barriers in higher education. Drawing from the literature on …
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Access to Health Care at the Margins: Implications for Older Sexual Minority Women with Disabilities
… marginalized populations, such as older sexual minority women (SMW) with disabilities. Despite evidence of disparate health care access and health outcomes, no research to date has explored the health needs or health care experiences of disabled older SMW. This study therefore sought to address …
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Examining levels of social support, concealment and disclosure and heterosexism as health indicators in sexual minority women who smoke
Recent evidence suggests self-identified sexual minority women (SMW) smoke at higher rates than gay men and heterosexual women. A limited amount of research for this disparity points to factors that include tobacco company targeted marketing, genetic differences, gender-based metabolic differences, …
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Build it so they will come? Feasibility and efficacy of a gamified personalized normative feedback alcohol intervention for sexual minority women.
<p>Sexual minority women (SMW) disproportionately engage in heavy drinking and shoulder the burden of alcohol dependence. Much research has emphasized the need for culturally tailored alcohol interventions for this population, highlighting sexual minority stigma-related experiences, maladaptive …
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A Model of Individual, Relationship, and Societal Factors and Mental Health and Well-Being in Partnered Sexual Minority Women: The Central Role of Relationship Satisfaction
<p>Sexual minority women (SMW) are at increased risk for mental health disorders, substance abuse, and physical health problems compared to heterosexual women. For heterosexual individuals, romantic relationships have been found to be protective against a variety of health issues. Less research, …
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ANALYZING CLINICAL PRESENTATION, SERVICE UTILIZATION, AND CLINICAL OUTCOME OF FEMALE SEXUAL MINORITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
… examining clinically-relevant trends for sexual minority women have found evidence of psychological distress and greater utilization of mental health services compared to heterosexually-identified women. However, the results of many research studies with this population have methodological …
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Dangerous women, dangerous times: Women at the Nevada State Prison, 1890-1930
… This thesis also compares the treatment of minority women with Anglo women and finds minority women also received mixed treatment. Factors used to judge treatment include the sentences women received, how much of these sentences they served, the living conditions they faced at the Nevada …
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Making the Transition From Paraeducator to Professional Educator: Five Minority Teachers Share Their Stories
… study explored the lived experiences of five minority women who successfully negotiated the transition process to become professional teachers. Phenomenological interviewing, within the hermeneutic phenomenology tradition, was the methodology used for data collection. To understand how these …
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The Impact of Ethnicity on Maternal Health Outcomes and Mental Well-being: A Focus on Ethnic Minorities in the UK
Background: Ethnic minority women experience significantly higher maternal health issues and mental well-being outcome in the UK. Studies indicates that women from Black, Asian, and others ethnic communities suffer from maternal mortality, severe morbidity, and mental health conditions. This …
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The Role Of Chronic Stress In Age Gradients Of Preterm Birth Among Racial/ethnic Groups
… of preterm birth (PTB) among racial/ethnic minority women. However, the association between chronic stress and PTB is not clearly understood. In fact, existing chronic stress models do not agree on definitions and assessments of chronic stress, rarely reflect racial/ethnic differences in …
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