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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"female representation"”.
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
… American popular culture and, since the female body features so centrally in these fantasies, feminism is charged with disrupting a complex system that equates women with pleasure. <i>Sucker Punch</i> is important to this discussion because it is a unique example of a mainstream attempt …
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The Implications of Increased Female Representation on Iowa School Boards for Educational Policy Making
… governance styles and priorities of male and female school board members, and from this comparison determine the implications of increased female membership for educational policy making. Procedures. A questionnaire was designed to secure information on the backgrounds, motivation for …
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Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series
… and leaves little space for fully developed female characters, relying instead on female tropes, stereotypes, and patriarchal constructions that present uncritical and monolithic representations of women. This thesis examines female characters in the Marvel Avengers series and uses them to …
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Exploring female representation in the entrepreneurship education curriculum and pedagogy in the further education and training phase
… This study explored the disjuncture between female learners’ strong academic performance in entrepreneurial-related subjects and their limited participation and success in entrepreneurial activities in South Africa. Female entrepreneurship contributes to economic diversity and growth, …
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Female Representation Matters: The Identification of Young Women with the Embodied Ecological Ethē of Public Female Role Models
… to find out if college-aged women have public female role models (PFRM) and how the former group identified with the latter. Over the last two hundred years, women and men in the U.S. have worked to improve the current standing of women in society. Today, women continue to gain influential …
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Gendered Civil Society Context, Local Party Strength, and Candidate Emergence: Explaining Female Representation across the US State Legislatures
… the substantial and persistent variation in female representation observed across states and party caucuses in the US state legislatures. I develop and test the theory of gendered civil society context and party strength to explain why female candidates are more likely to run for office in …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… of three studies on how social capital and the representation of members of traditionally under-represented groups affect health inequality in the US. A consequence of racial and ethnic diversity in America has been increased social inequality. Social inequality in health exists along gender, …
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Az alacsony női részvétel okai a felsővezetésben. Mit mondanak erről a döntéshozók? = Reasons for the Low Female Representation in Senior Management. What Do Senior Decision Makers Say About It?
Sokévnyi kutatói és vállalatvezetői tapasztalatra tettem szert mielőtt jelentkeztem a PhD programra. Az a cél vezetett, hogy a tudomány eszközeivel mutathassak meg valamit egy olyan területen, ahol egyéni életutam segítségével egyedi hozzáadott értéket tudok nyújtani. Elsősorban a vezetéstudomány …
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A woman's worth: the impact of board bender diversity on company performance - a cross-country analysis
Purpose: The study aims to investigate whether female representation on corporate boards impacts company financial and non-financial performance. Existing studies show conflicting results regarding the impact that female representation on the boards of directors may have on financial and …
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Subversión femenina en una época pre feminista: análisis de la serie de televisión “Anne with an e”
This research discusses the female representation and female empowerment discourse in the television series “Anne with an E” revealing the wide range of gender issues it tackles. The methodology employed here examines the narrative and female characters through a sample of episodes, classifying the …
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Women in business leadership and firm performance: a cross-country study
This study investigates the relationship between female board and top management representation and corporate financial performance (measured i.t.o. ROA), and market sentiment (measured i.t.o. Tobin's Q). Three Western nations (the U.S., the U.K. and Germany) and two Asian countries (China and …
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A feminist dialogue with the camera: strategies of visibility in video art practices.
… seeks to contest limited and reductive tropes of female representation in a contemporary Western context. The focus of the thesis is on video art, which, I argue, can be both a radical tool for deconstructing dominant mainstream images of femininity and play a role in developing progressive …
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Gender, Form, and Interiority in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… vision of a new sort of stealth-realism, in the representation of subjectivity. When we consider Hardy’s vexed depictions of gender through the lens of form, the debate over Hardy’s “unfair” (misogynist) or “progressive” (feminist) representations becomes less polarized and allows for broader …
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Persistence of Female Faculty in STEM
… of women entering certain STEM fields impacts female representation in research faculty, teacher faculty, and leadership positions in higher education. Through a narrative inquiry methodology utilizing the theoretical paradigms of self-determination theory and relational autonomy, this study …
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Family and Nation in Crises: Female characters in Selected Recent South African Novels
Studies have shown that representations of young women are articulated through masculine perceptions, especially in recent South African novels. This is evident in many South African literary texts where black female characters are dependent on the writer’s knowledge and views about black women. As …
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Women and wireless 1929 - 1945. The British Broadcasting Corporation - its percpetion and treatment of women in the period
… listener but also seeks to explore the issue of female representation within the Corporation. Chapter Two offers an insight into the particular genre of programmes for women and includes a comparative analysis of American broadcasting in order to assess the relative benefits or disadvantages to …
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Essays on Education Markets
… from the disproportionately low participation of female applicants in university entrance exams for STEM-related subjects, which are critical for admission to STEM majors. Counterfactual simulations show that some commonly proposed policies can be effective to improve female representation in STEM …
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Female athletics: Exploring the impact of female coaches on perceived levels of athletic self-efficacy among female athletes and their career pursuits in athletics
… However, there has been a sharp decline in female representation in athletic leadership positions. This study examined the relationship between female athletes' perceived levels of self-efficacy and their willingness to explore a career in athletic coaching. The research focused on the …
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When Laws and Representation Are Not Enough: Enduring Impunity and Post-Conflict Sexual Violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone
… governments in which there are high levels of female representation will be associated with lower levels of impunity for sexual assault and this will result in lower levels of sexual violence. This study finds that the presence of a female head of state in Liberia does not simply equate to …
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