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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"gender development"”.
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Gender, development and social change in Rote, eastern Indonesia
This thesis explores gender relations in the island of Rote in Indonesia. It examines Rotenese social organization and the role of women in development. In this case the researcher is of the same culture of the people being studied: the analysis is derived from social science informed by local …
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Raising awareness of sex-gender stereotyping : the implications of some feminist ideologies for curriculum and pedagogy in secondary education
… with 1) establishing the origins of sex-gender differences and with ascertaining if these are changeable; 2) the structure and function of the postmodern patriarchal family and its role in sex-gender development and sex-gender stereotyping; 3) the role of education in sex-gender/other …
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Using a conceptual framework to explore E-commerce and marketing appropriation in a rural South African development organization
… Technologies (lCTs) within a rural, gender development organization. The purpose of this research has been to examine how lCTs can be integrated with an extant rural development organization to improve the effectiveness of trading activities. Three major viewpoints, development, …
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Children's constructions of gender: A participatory project
Studies on the construction of gender have largely focussed on adolescents and young adults in South Africa. This leaves a significant gap in understanding the ways in which gender is constructed and negotiated by younger children. This study, therefore, investigated how younger children narrate …
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Gendered and classed stereotyping : the effects of viewing Teen Mom
… representations of sociocultural groups such as gender, race/ethnicity, and class are thought to influence group-based attitudes and beliefs. Although class is a powerful social organizer in society, the study of class representations is most often ignored in the examination of television …
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Drag performance, identity, and cultural perception
… to elucidate how the social aspects of gender can be developed. Then, Kate Bornstein’s work is used to illustrate how individuals can use these identities as a conscious method of self-development.Following this, the second chapter explores the social role drag performers have, sometimes …
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The United Nations and Gender-mainstreaming; International Conferences on Women and the Development of Gender Mainstreaming Policies in Caribbean States
… or none is left for the implementation of social development programs. As a result, these small states are constrained from defining contours of social development, without the cooperation of the international community. They must therefore depend on external actors for the successful …
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What the Children Are Reading: A Content Analysis of Minority Male Characters in Preschool Children's Libraries
… & Edwards, 2012). Children's literature presents gender roles and culture norms to readers that are overt and underlying within the story (Rodman & Hildreth, 2002). Exposure to picture and story books that challenge historically limiting gender roles and cultural norms counteract stereotypes that …
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Leydi’s world : a feminist commodity chain analysis of the cut-flower industry and its women workers in Cayambe, Ecuador
This thesis explores the gendered, raced, classed and aged experiences of women working in the floriculture industry in Cayambe, Ecuador, questioning how the work affects and shapes female workers’ daily lives and how they navigate and negotiate such work. The thesis relies on the method of …
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Early Androgen Exposure, Gender, and Disorder-Relevant Traits
… Can early androgen exposure shape subsequent gender-related disorders in humans? Chapter 1 (Introduction) provides an overview of the literature. Chapter 2 (Kung et al., 2016a) is the first study to demonstrate that testosterone concentrations in saliva samples collected during the early …
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Generating Prevalence Estimates of Sensitive Behaviors through List Randomization: Survey Experiment among Indian Males
<p>Survey respondents may under-report or misreport sensitive behaviors due to social desirability bias. List randomization is an indirect way of asking questions which allows respondents to answer sensitive questions without the surveyor knowing their actual response. This has emerged as a new …
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Gender, water and development: The multiple impacts and perceptions of a rural water project in Nampula, Mozambique
Development organizations claim that rural water projects deliver a wide variety of benefits - from poverty reduction to women's empowerment. This research explores these claims in the context of a rural water project (RWP) in Nampula, Mozambique. From August of 2011 to July of 2012, I spent 11 …
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Does It Matter Who We Ask in Household Surveys? A Study on Gendered Effects and Decision Making Processes in Ecuador
… decisions may improve the success of an economic development program and enhance targeted training efforts. Technology adoption and farm management decisions depend on household decision making. If a relevant decision maker can be clearly identified and specifically trained to meet his or her …
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Occupational segregation in Namibia: Women's experience doing "men's work" in the construction and manufacturing industries
… for working with men, challenging the oft-cited development narrative that women ally themselves with other women and tend to view themselves in opposition to men. By providing context-specific information on some of the factors contributing to occupational segregation in Namibia, this study adds …
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Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, c. 1920 - 1982
… reproductive health in Ghana. It asks how ‘development’ impacted on women’s reproductive health work, and women’s experiences of healthcare, between 1920 and 1982. It recognises development as a discourse, which is used to legitimise the actions of individuals, organisations and governments. …