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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"gender dynamics"”.
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Multiracial Individuals, Gender Dynamics, And Dating
<p>This study examines the role gender and race play in multiracial men and women’s experiences with dating. With the use of interviews, fourteen men and women shared their experiences with dating. There were two main themes that emerged. The first was the development of a multiracial identity. …
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Gender dynamics of a Parents Support Group
… inadequate in providing an understanding of the gender dynamics within this group. The study takes on an interpretive approach to explore this research problem and employs qualitative techniques, which were found to be most suitable. Data were collected through the use of field notes that …
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Gender dynamics in home ownership in Kampala, Uganda
… The study was premised on the assumption that gender inequality in homeownership exists and persists in Uganda in spite of urbanization, increase in information flow, education and income of women. Although married women live in a home with their husband, they do not actually own the home. As a …
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Exploring gender dynamics in sexuality education in Uganda's secondary schools
Within international theory of gender and education, sexuality is implicated as one of the major factors responsible for the differential participation of boys and girls in schooling and the persistent gender inequalities in education in Sub-Saharan African countries and Uganda in particular. In …
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An investigation into gender dynamics in saxophone teaching methodology in South Africa
… their impacts for women saxophonists generate a gendered bias in the music industry, where it is assumed that these performers are not able to perform to the same standard as their male counterparts as they are women – the biological predisposition for difficulty in breathing is not taken into …
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Gender dynamics in the advertising industry : the interplay of workplace culture and career advancement
… addresses a central research problem related to gender in the advertising industry. It outlines existing literature from various scholarly traditions, including gender studies, consumer behavior, evolutionary psychology and sociology fields. This report bridges theories ranging from feminist …
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Women on the net: An exploratory study of gender dynamics on the soc.women computer network
… was to illuminate some of the workings of gender in computer-mediated interactions. I observed that, although much of the research on electronic communication valorized the media's ability to foster open and democratic exchanges, little of this research actually took gender into account. In …
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Exploring women’s views on intra-gender dynamics in the workplace: A study of impact and change
… mixed-methods study was to examine women’s intra-gender experiences in higher education workplaces and their perceived influence on future interactions and behaviors, as well as to explore potential relationships between relational aggression (RA) and the Queen Bee Phenomenon (QBP). Using the …
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Gender dynamics in the South African apparel value chain: a case study on the Western Cape province
Since the early 2000s, South Africa's once thriving sector started to whither due to a combination of domestic and international factors. The result was a sharp decline in manufacturing output, low productivity levels, factory closures and massive job losses across the sector. The blow to the …
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Developing an intersectionality framework for exploring gender dynamics at management level within a state-owned organization in South Africa
Gender oppression and inequality has gained momentum among academics as an emerging feminist concern. However, there are not many literary works about black South African women who work for state-owned enterprises (SOE) and encounter bias. Black women still experience subtle racial and gender …
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An exploration of the experiences of Zimbabwean women informal cross-border traders at the Zimbabwean/South African BeitBridge border post
… cross-border trade, however, has theorized that gender dynamics may empower women traders as they learn to negotiate new business networks and as they develop economic independence; a different perspective on gender dynamics suggests that far from empowerment, women cross border-traders face …
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The Evolution of Marie de France's Lanval
… tonality of otherworldly attraction, unusual gender dynamics, a curious new age aura, and elements of proto-feminism especially in terms of female agency, empowerment and eroticism. While some of these motifs seem to reflect more modern understandings of gender dynamics and conceptualizations …
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Exploring the forms of violence experienced by women street vendors, and the strategies they use to sustain a living, in a particular South African periurban context, Muswodi Dipeni
… sector and contribute to the exploration of gender dynamics in street trading. Through the use of qualitative methods, the results showed that women street vendors deal with diverse forms of violence daily, including physical, emotional, economic, customer-based violence, and structural …
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Challenges facing SMEs in the Western Cape townships with a focus on gender issues
… face supplementary challenges, which are mostly gender based in nature. The study explored the challenges facing township SMEs in the Western Cape province and how the gender dynamics have played out in the face of SME stagnation. After identifying the challenges and gender dynamics, policy gaps …
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Experiences of rural girls in a historically dominated organisation: scouts in Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Eastern Cape
… boys were included in the study to explore gender dynamics and to problematise how gender inequalities can be understood and addressed in scouting.
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Selves colliding with structure : the discursive construction of change and non-change in narrative of rape crisis volunteers
… violence, heterosexual relationships and gender dynamics and involvement with the organisation thus compels selves to negotiate and reflect upon their current positionings. In order to explore these subjective dilemmas two individual and detailed interviews were conducted with 7 …
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Emirati women journalists bargaining with patriarchy in search of equality
… society that prefers the practise of traditional gender roles. To shed light on this phenomenon, this doctoral research will present an in-depth study of media development and the emergence of women’s journalism in the UAE, using two types of empirical research methodology. The first is …
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