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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"mature women"”.
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Mature Women Students and Their University Experience
This research study included 12 women - six who were in the process of obtaining their degree and six who had obtained their degree, for at least 10 years, from the same mid-sized Canadian university. All of the women were at least 30 years of age at the commencement of their program. This research …
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Mature Women and Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity and Family Relationships
… through engagement with Higher Education (HE), mature women students experience identity change and transformation which could lead to conflict and strain on marital relationships. The aims of this thesis are to explore the effects of identity transformation on mature women and the family unit …
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Making meaning in academic writing: mature women students in higher education
… of making meaning in academic writing of ten women students with whom I met on an individual basis over a period of between 1 and 3 years to talk about specific instances of their writing for undergraduate course work. Most of the study reported here is based on discussions of their academic …
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Contextualising the Experiences of Mature Women Entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
… a separate academic research field termed the “Mature Entrepreneurship Literature”, also known by various terminologies within the literature as discussed in Chapter Two. Despite the acknowledgement of the challenges posed by this demography, the field of mature entrepreneurship remains …
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Springboard and bridge : a study of a career program and its mature women graduates
… year post-secondary college and the program's mature women graduates. The writer is a graduate of the program, she worked in the field, and later became a member of the program's faculty. She acknowledges her subjectivity in that “she chooses a particular point of view from which to ask …
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Smart Bras: Developing an Experience-Centred Bra Wearables Design Process with and for Mature Women
… technology” (Almeida, 2017), created with women’s involvement, needs, and experience at the centre. Moreover, focus should be on marginalised women, such as mature women (MW) who are often omitted from the fashion and technology space. Underpinned by a Deweyan Pragmatist framework, a …
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Mature women re-entering employment : The role of the manpower services commission in meeting their needs.
This thesis reviews the re-entry experiences of women who left employment temporarily to raise a family. It investigates in particular the role of the M.S.C. with regard to these re-entrants.The background to the research is given in three chapters which provide an outline of the current situation …
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Mature Women Beyond Foster Care: Narratives on Fractors contributing to Subjective Well-Being and Life-Sustaining Skills
… the decision threshold.</p> <p>African American women who aged out of foster care and are living self - sustaining lives are small in number and there is an absence of research on their experiences after leaving care. Although there is a plethora of research on the disproportionate …
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The struggles and triumphs of the invisible subject: the experiences of mature women students caring for those with learning disabilities whilst studying in Higher Education
… emotional and financial costs, especially for women with caring responsibilities, which presents challenges and restrictions for them when participating in activities outside the care-giving domain, such as engagement in education. Against these odds and despite the considerable demand caring …
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Parental and Social Influences Associated with the Development of Gender Role Conflict during Female Adolescences: As Related by Mature Women in Gender Variant Career Fields
… forming developmental pathways to adulthood. All women do not necessarily experience gender role stress during adolescence development. However, for those who do, gender role related stress creates varied levels of dissonance between personal determination and social context (Fine, 2011). GRC is …
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Assessing the Effect of Nutritional Interventions on Body Composition Changes During Pregnancy in Moderately Malnourished Malawian Women
… lean mass and fat mass in pregnant malnourished women.</p> <p>Objective: To retrospectively assess changes in body composition in moderately malnourished pregnant Malawian women in response to one of three nutritional interventions.</p> <p>Methods: Height, weight, MUAC, and TSF were measured in …
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An exploratory study of women's experiences and place in the church: a case study of a parish in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA), diocese of Cape Town
… case study into the experiences of eight mature women members of a particular parish in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) situated in the Diocese of Cape Town. Using qualitative feminist research methodologies, this study sets out to explore how this group of …
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The relationship between clothing interest and certain demographic variables of a selected group of women of middle years
… interest existed between selected groups of women of 25 to 65 years, and to identify the dimensions of clothing interest important to them. The relationship between clothing interest and certain demographic characteristics was also investigated. A modified version of the Creekmore Importance …
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Motivations and problems of the adult woman student
Evidence is presented in the literature that mature women are returning to school in increasing numbers. Attempts have been made to assess their needs and to understand their motivations as an aggregate group. The present study explored the motivations and problems of the returning student as a …