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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"gender and race"”.
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Gender and race, online communities, and composition classrooms
… of three separate sites, I use examples of women and minorities fighting against discrimination online to explore the power structures inherent to networks and how these might affect classroom practice. I will show how our ordinary assumptions in rhetoric and composition as well as computers and …
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Influence Of Gender And Race On Self-Objectification
… current study examined how men's expectations and references in women's body type (the study attempts to examine the effects of men's expectations by manipulating the gender and race of the present research assistant) may affect how heterosexual women value and judge themselves. This was …
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Pathways to adulthood and their precursors: Roles of gender and race
… adults’ pathways to adulthood from ages 18 to 30 and their differences by gender. Data for this study were drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997; the final sample included 2,185 men and 2,086 women. The college-educated single workers pathway, the college-educated married …
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Financial motivations and small business survival : the effects of gender and race.
… established in previous literature that female and minority entrepreneurs are less successful with business ventures in comparison to whites and males. Motivation and growth expectations have also been shown to be positively associated with business success. This paper examines how differing …
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The Influences of Gender and Race on the Attachment Styles Within a Criminal Population
… to parental figures vary according to the race and gender of subjects residing in a correctional facility. The study can perhaps influence rehabilitation services within the prison system and modify anti-recidivism programs attended by individuals released from a correctional facility. …
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Exploring the Digital Literacy Divide Among American Teens: Influences of Parent Education, Gender and Race
… were correlations between parental education, gender and race with U.S. teenagers’ high-risk behaviors, positive behaviors and self-efficacy when it comes to digital literacy. The analysis found a statistically significant effect of gender, race, and parental education on high-risk behaviors, …
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Wage Inequality: A Gender and Race Analysis of South African Wages between 1994 and 2015
… paper examines wage inequality among the eight race-gender cohorts in South Africa between 1994 and 2015 by using the 1994 October Household Survey and four waves of the 2015 Quarterly Labour Force Survey. Wage inequality is estimated using the Lorenz Curve, Gini Coefficient, General Entropy …
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Investigation of Gender and Race Effects on Promotion in Departments of Geography in the United States
… in academic promotion associated with gender or race within the discipline of geography in the United States. Professors were identified between 1991 and 2007 using the Association of American Geographers’ Guides and Directories. For each institution, males were matched to female …
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A Vignette Study Examining The Accuracy Of Diagnosis: The Role Of Patient And Practitioner Gender And Race Match
… of 228 mental health practitioners were surveyed and administered two vignettes of persons with mental illness and a 12-question survey that included occupational background and attitudinal questions about diagnosing mental illness. The gender and race of the patients were randomly altered, while …
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Comparisons of Attitudes Toward Computer Use and Computer Technology Based on Gender and Race/Ethnicity Among Eighth Graders
… differences between how eighth grade girls and eighth grade boys in 10 middle schools in HenricoCounty, Virginia perceive computer use and computer technology. Having a laptop computer to use at any time of the day or night eliminates the issue of competition between boys and girls for …
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Uncommon pasts converging in the digital present: Constructions of gender and race in the era of airport security
… of the body, specifically its physical parts and physiological indicators and performances. In the United States, biometric technology uses algorithms to automate and power artificially intelligent machines via light sensors, infrared reflection, millimeter waves detection, and other means. …
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The Effects of Class, Age, Gender and Race on Musical Preferences: An Examination of the Omnivore/Univore Framework
Using data from the 1982, 1985, 1992, and 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), this thesis tests the effects of class, age, gender and race on the breadth of musical preferences that respondents report to liking. Specifically, the omnivore/univore framework developed by Peterson …
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The Conceptualization of Gender and Race in Rap Music: Its Impact on the Political Engagement of Black Women
… the underexamined relationship between rap music and the political engagement of Black women, using theories of Black feminist thought: Intersectionality and hip-hop feminism. Rather than seeking a definitive or binary conclusion, the research examines the complexity of how rap influences cultural …
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MAJOR DEPRESSION AND INSULIN RESISTANCE AMONG NONDIABETIC U.S. ADULTS AGED 20-39 YEARS: THE ROLES OF GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY
The relationship between depression and insulin resistance has been evaluated in previous studies but with conflicting results. No study was found that investigates the role of race/ethnicity in the relationship between depression and insulin resistance. The purpose of this study was to: 1) …
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Sex positionality : a history of the role of gender and race in mid-to-late-twentieth-century evangelical sex literature.
… evangelical sex manuals, marriage guides, and purity literature from 1967 to 2016 and argues that evangelical authors created different rhetorics, ideals, and sexual ethics based on their gendered and racial positions in evangelicalism. I first look to gender and argue that in the 1970s, …
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The Gender and Race Intersectional Disproportionality-Tool (GRID-T): An Exploration of Practitioners’ Access to and Use of High-Quality Data for Special Education Placement
… in special education (SPED) is upheld by systems and individuals, policies, and practices that both reflect and shape the local communities within which it exists. Even with many proposed solutions for disproportionality, it persists. This two-manuscript dissertation explores two characteristics …
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The Effects of Recruiting Source and Employee Demographic Similarity on Employee Outcomes: Is Recruiting Source Merely a Proxy for Employee Demographic Similarity
… is positively related to employee tenure and performance. However, it is unclear whether a relationship exists between recruiting source used and applicant gender and race. Research has also found that organizational demographic composition affects employee turnover and performance. This …
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An Assessment for our Future: An Investigation of the Presence of External Ecological Assets within Three Counties and One City in Southwest Virginia 6th Grade Youth
… differences in the reported external ecology by gender, and whether there are differences in the reported external ecology by race/ethnicity. Methods: The SWVAR 2009-2010 6th grade Youth Risk Behavior Surveys were analyzed and items extracted which pertained to the Search Institute Developmental …
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The Relationship Between Responsibility Center Management, Faculty Composition, and Faculty Salaries
… responsibility center management (RCM), and that number increased to 24 in 2014–2015 (Jaquette, Kramer, and Curs, 2018), but little is known about the relationship between the implementation of RCM, faculty composition, and faculty compensation. Inequities in faculty composition and …
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