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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"gender biases"”.
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Internet Infidelity: An Examination of Family Therapist Treatment Decisions and Gender Biases
… treat Internet infidelity. It assessed whether gender and other social background variables of therapists are operating in treatment decisions. Specifically, this study provided three clinical vignettes to 508 practicing marriage and family therapists and asked them several treatment and …
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Gender Biases and Armed Conflict: Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA
… an armed group, women are limited to traditional gender roles such as cooking, cleaning, and being a wife. By opposing traditional gender assumptions during conflict, these women are often rejected or stigmatized by their community following their return from the force – indicating that they have …
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Automaticity and Hemispheric Specialization in Emotional Expression Recognition: Examined using a modified Stroop Task
… categorized the valence of each stimulus. Gender biases in judgments of expressions (better recognition for male angry and female sad expressions) and the valence hypothesis of hemispheric advantages for emotions (left hemisphere: positive; right hemisphere: negative) were also examined. …
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Quantitative evaluations of teaching quality in universities: the impact of students’ gender-specific expectations on teaching evaluations
… to rather than impede the manifestation of gender biases in students’ evaluations of their lecturers. These limitations include constraints in humans’ abilities to generate quantifications as well as potential variations in students’ interpretations and use of item statements and answer …
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What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
… seeks to find how political memes used common gender biases and stereotypes to frame the politicians. The researcher gained results from N = 550 memes collected from Google and Facebook groups.
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Essays on delegation and social norms
… under compulsory delegation. Finally, I study gender differences in delegation finding that gender biases only arise in compulsory delegation, and not under endogenous delegation, and at an agent level.
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Determining entrepreneurial challenges among women entrepreneurs selling fruits in the Vhembe District
… South Africa are making progress in overcoming gender biases and establishing their enterprises, they still encounter several structural and social challenges, many of which have been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. While past and current research has identified numerous challenges faced by …
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Gender differences in ADHD diagnosis
… studies, potential genetic differences between genders, as well as potential gender biases. These topics are all examined with the purpose of trying to determine which effect, if any, they may have had in creating the criteria necessary for a diagnosis and how that relates to each gender. The …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Saudi Women Employees’ Perception of Agency and Career Advancement
… of employment experience and working in mixed-gender environments in Saudi Arabia. The study examined the lived experiences of Saudi women employed in Mecca, Madinah, Jeddah, and Riyadh, and how their individual and collective agency impacted their career advancement opportunities. The findings …
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How does the school culture of a high school in the Western Cape impact the psychological well-being of a teacher of colour?
… this thesis examines how systemic racial and gender biases, coupled with autocratic leadership, adversely affected a woman teacher of colour's psychological well-being in a high school in the Western Cape. Recommendations include a holistic approach regarding policy reform, targeted …
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The influence of intragroup conflict on career advancement of women in corporate
… by competitive corporate cultures and gender biases and call for policy changes that allow supports and cooperation among women at work. By addressing both external challenges and internal group dynamics, this study helps understand the barriers to women's advancement in corporate …
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Invincible but Invisible: A Phenomenological study of African American Female Principals in Wisconsin’s Public K - 12 Schools
… consistently encountered intersecting racial and gender biases, including heightened scrutiny, isolation, unequal access to resources, and expectations of cultural caretaking. Despite these barriers, the principals relied heavily on mentorship particularly from other Black women along with …
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… portrayal of female trauma and the subsequent gendered division in its critical reception. The film centers on Celeste, a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative that transforms her personal trauma into a public spectacle and a critique of …
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MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: A CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF SELECT HISPANIC FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH ACADEMIC RACIAL BIAS AT A 4-YEAR TEXAS UNIVERSITY
… female students provided examples of racial and gender biases they experienced in academic settings within the past 2 years. The narrative testimonios provide evidence of ongoing racism in academic and co-curricular settings, how these students responded, and the impacts on the students …
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Culture Counts: Examining the Effectiveness of a Culturally Focused Empowerment Program For At-Risk Black Girls
… help Black girls explore both their cultural and gender identity. This is problematic because Black girls are constantly confronted with deeply embedded stereotypes that reinforce racial and gender biases both in and outside the classroom (Morris, 2007). A key protective factor of combating …
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Diversity And Inclusion In FIFA Leadership: The Perspective of Female Footballers
… and its evolving stance towards promoting gender equality within the sport's governance. Despite commendable strides, disparities persist, particularly in the representation and participation of women within FIFA's leadership echelons. The "Saunders Onion Research" framework facilitates a …
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Gender issues in contemporary sermons
The purpose of this research was to examine gender issues in contemporary sermons. My sample consists of sermons delivered on BBC Radio 4 as part of acts of worship broadcast during 1993-4 which were examined to analyse how language, gender and power intersect to produce these discourses. In order …
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An examination of award-winning Canadian children’s literature from 1982 to 1992 for evidence of gender equality in presentations of male and female characters
… Canadian children's literature for evidence of gender equality. The sample consisted of seventy-eight books that had been winners or runners-up of national awards between 1982 and 1992. Qualitative and quantitative methods of content analysis were used to collect data from which the ratio of …
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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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She sat with her legs open, he danced with a man : attitudes to non-normative gendered behaviours in a university student population
… (n=382) at the University of Cape Town to gender norm violations. Two variations of a questionnaire were administered to assess the degree of acceptance or unacceptance of behaviours that deviate from the expected norms for men and women. The questionnaires were similar in that scenarios …
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