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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Women in the workplace"”.
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Biases toward pregnant women in the workplace
The current study investigates reactions toward pregnant women in the workplace. Participants in an online study watched a video of an applicant (depicted as either pregnant or nonpregnant) for a professional development grant. Additionally, the applicant was either portrayed as stereotypically …
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The Embodied needs of Women in the Workplace: An Exploratory study
Women and men face differences in how they experience the work environment concerning health and safety and their needs within the workspace. Depending on age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, women and men face different stigmas, thus impacting their difficulties within their work …
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Dress to Repress: Exploring How Dress Codes & Norms Harm Black Women in the Workplace
Dress codes were originally based on safety practices but have evolved into standards around perceived professionalism that uphold White masculine norms in the workplace. At the crossroads of White male standards is Black women’s hairstyling habits. While some Black women may engage in impression …
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From the Mouths of Men: A Model of Men's Perception of Social Identity Threat Toward Women in the Workplace and Endorsement of Identity Safety Behaviors
… model where social identity complexity was hypothesized to predict endorsement of identity safety behaviors intended to mitigate social identity threat for women in a male-dominated work context. Male awareness of systemic social identity threats for women was examined as a potential mediator of …
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Protection of pregnant employees in the South African workplace : a labour law perspective
The Constitution of South Africa lists pregnancy as a prohibited ground for discrimination. The South African labour law regime likewise makes provision for the protection of women and pregnant employees in the workplace. This protection is against less favourable treatment, through measures that …
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Destabilizing gender norms: Women in masculine occupations in the Islamic Republic of Iran
This dissertation tackles the vastly discussed puzzle of women’s low rates of labor force participation in the Middle East, using the case of Iran while focusing on an under-explored perspective. Iran has one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the region and marks an …
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The New Indian Middle Class: Work and Gender in the Global Workplace
The policies of economic liberalization that were implemented by the Indian Government from the 1990s exposed the Indian economy and society to global trends. This process created a new Indian middle class which is differentiated from its pre-liberalization counterpart in distinct ways. This PhD …
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Job insecurity: male and female employees, their marriages and families
While there is a growing body of literature on the effect of unemployment on individuals, and their marriages and families, a paucity of research has focused on job insecurity, or employment uncertainty, as a stressor on employees and their families. In addition, research on women in the workplace …
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'A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind': Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923
<p>"A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind": Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923 looks at sexual harassment before it was an actionable offense. Although female domestic servants have endured unwanted sexual attention for most of American history, the entry of women into wage …
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‘a Deadly Menace To All Young Womankind’: Seduction And Protective Legislation In America, 1850-1923
<p>“A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind”: Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923 looks at sexual harassment before it was an actionable offense. Although female domestic servants have endured unwanted sexual attention for most of American history, the entry of women into wage …
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PERSPECTIVE TAKING AND THREAT: DO THREATENING SITUATIONS HAVE AN EFFECT ON HELPING INTENTIONS AND PERCEIVED EXPECTATIONS?
<p>An important skill for interpersonal communication is the ability to take the perspective of another person. Taking the perspective of a target can aid the perceiver in predicting the target’s mental states and subsequent behaviors. This can be especially important in threatening situations. How …
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Bystander stress: The effect of organizational tolerance of sexual harassment on victims' coworkers
The effects of sexual harassment are becoming well-documented, with empirical evidence from military, academic, and public sector samples that victims of harassment experience negative job-related and psychological effects. In the present study, the effects of sexual harassment on victims' …
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The Effect of Professional Development Training for Secondary Mathematics Teachers Concerning Nontraditional Employment Roles for Females
This quasi-experimental study, utilizing quantitative and qualitative descriptive methods, examined the sex-egalitarian attitudes of secondary mathematics teachers from the Ft. Worth Independent School District. A video tape, Women in the Workplace, was used as a training intervention to test the …
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Never call me sweetheart : a case study on how women educators in secondary schools experience gender-based microaggressions in the workplace.
… significant advances toward gender equality, women have continued to experience gender discrimination regularly. Research revealed that one of the most common forms of discrimination in the workplace directed toward women were gender-based microaggressions. These common and sometimes …
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Edward Cadbury – Paternalistic employer or Quaker-inspired pathfinder of British industrial relations pluralism and women workers’ champion?
Using Edward Cadbury as the central character, this thesis considers the development of the Cadbury company between the years 1899 and 1919. This was a period of experiment and innovation, and the occasion when all the reforms that came to epitomise the company as being ‘progressive’, were …
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Exploring the inclusion of women in work-life policy- and practice-making and its influence on career-advancement decisions at a state-owned entity
This study explored the experiences and perceptions of women employees' work-life integration, inclusion in work-life policy- and practice-making, and its influence on their career-advancement choices at Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), an operating division of Transnet Ltd, a State-Owned Entity in …
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More and Less: Perceptions and Experiences of the Professional Part-Time Employee
The workforce of today is a far cry from the workforce of yesteryear. Not only have there been changes in who works, but how one works as well. The traditional nine-to-five work day has been replaced by a plethora of flexible work options, including flextime, telecommuting, and part-time …
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'a Man's World'?: A Study Of Female Workers At Nasa's Kennedy Space C
By focusing on women workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this study seeks to understand why women were initially congregated in certain occupations such as clerical work and later moved into non-traditional jobs such as engineering and the sciences. Such an investigation requires …
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Gender equity and business leadership in the South African Mining sector
Despite existing legislation and frameworks that are intended to protect women's rights, women remain under-represented in all aspects of the mining sector. Although scholarship has engaged with the challenges of women in the workplace across a wide range of contexts, it has not yet specifically …
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