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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"professional women"”.
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Marginality in Appalachian professional women
… research examined a sample of first generation professional women from the Appalachian region with the goal of description and exploration of issues related to their professional lives. Data from 20 intensive interviews were organized around an expanded version of Park's (1928) concept of …
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Professional Women Interior Decorators in Britain, 1871 - 1899
This thesis recovers the histories of the women working as professional interior decorators in the later years of the nineteenth century and, by reassessing their contribution to the field, challenges the masculinized history of British interior decoration. Examination of documentary and archival …
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Exploring the Self Definition and Individuality of Black Professional Women
… sense of ourselves? This research explores black professional women's attempts to define themselves through their personal and working lives. What makes each of them an individual? The present study aims to investigate the foundation of each of the participants' sense of self and to understand how …
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A clubhouse for the business and professional women of Bangor
Thesis (B.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1933.
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Nutrient intake and eating habits of professional women tennis players
The dietary status of 40 professional women tennis players was evaluated. The nutrition section of the Health Habits and History Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The analysis of the questionnaires found a mean daily caloric intake of 2020 kcal or 33 kcal/kg. The mean percentage of kcal …
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Multiplicity in contemporary Naga society: a study on professional women in multiple lifeworlds
… to cope with it, on the other. It shows that for professional women in Nagaland today, multiplicity manifests as co-existing cultural systems, layers of limitations, voices in conflict, and possible selves that are either unfulfilled or can manifest in the future. It argues that the idea of …
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Professional women as victims of emotional abuse within marriage or cohabitating relationships : a victimological study
… emotional abuse suffered by victims, who were professional women, within a marriage or a cohabitating relationship. Researcher made use of various sources to obtain data concerning the phenomenon of emotional abuse and its context within domestic violence. Several components of various …
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Identification and comparison of factors affecting breast self-examination between professional nurses and non-nursing professional women
… breast self-examination (BSE) behavior of professional nurses with non-nursing women alumni, and to describe the factors which influence regular adherence to BSE. The age range of the N = 549 women was 22 to 72 years. The factors of knowledge, self-esteem, attitudes, beliefs and …
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How do professional women experience the transition from being a ‘stay at home mother’ to paid employment?
… Analysis to explore the lived experience of professional women’s transition from being a ‘stay at home mother’ (SAHM) to paid employment. I expand on findings from a previous study I conducted (ECC 2017) with a view to informing coaching and therapy interventions. The literature review …
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Pathways to public life for professional women in Afghanistan: Negotiating shifting patriarchal political regimes and gender regimes
This thesis examines how Afghan women from the professional social class have negotiated the patriarchy in that country and claimed their agency and public life during different political regimes. Resisting the Western representation of Afghan women as passive victims, it uses the life story …
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Pathways to public life for professional women in Afghanistan: Negotiating shifting patriarchal political regimes and gender regimes
This thesis examines how Afghan women from the professional social class have negotiated the patriarchy in that country and claimed their agency and public life during different political regimes. Resisting the Western representation of Afghan women as passive victims, it uses the life story …
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Black professional women in dual-career families: the relationship of marital equity and sex role identity to the career commitment of the wife
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of marital equity and sex role identity to the career commitment of black dual-career wives and to determine who does what in the family. Five research questions guided the study: a) What is the relationship of selected demographic …
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“I Just Had to Feel Grateful for What I’ve Been Given”: A Critical Examination of the Marketing Portrayals and Sponsorship of Professional Women Footballers
… the marketing portrayal and sponsorship of professional women athletes. Specifically, it examines the perspectives of professional women footballers and the ways in which the gender ideal is reproduced, negotiated, and resisted, as well as their (re)imagined equitable sporting future. …
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A heuristic exploration into the lived experience of trying to “have it all” at 30: How do professional women experience desiring to mother and career planning against the backdrop of the finitude of their fertility?
A time of heightened anxiety arises for women who have careers and wish to be mothers around the age of 30. It seems that for this group of women, the experience of choosing when to become mothers is imbued with anxiety rich with existential themes such as, choice, freedom, meaning, temporality, …
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The Professional Woman's Decision to Retire: The Process of Transition
The transitional process to retirement by today's professional women is an issue of great significance. Beginning in the 1960s, these women became the first generation en masse to form long-term careers and to join the professional ranks. Retirement is now affecting over seven million women who are …
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Nutrition knowledge and feeding practices of the parents of preschool children in two upper-middle income counties in Virginia
… of vitamin A, iron, and calcium was limited. Professional women scored higher on the Nutrition Knowledge Test than did the non-professional women. There was no correlation between nutrition knowledge and level of education or income.
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The discursive construction of hegemonic and pariah femininities in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women
… in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were conducted with a sample of women and the data was analysed using a Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) approach. This study makes a contribution to both gender theory and critical …
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Retired professional women's past, current and future perceptions of their life satisfaction, health status and locus of control
This thesis examines one hundred retired professional women's (remembered) past, current, and future perceptions of their life satisfaction, health status, and locus of control. Participants in this Melbourne study completed a questionnaire which included the Life Satisfaction Index-A (LSI-A), …
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Mildred Trotter: A Biography and Alternative History of Physical Anthropology
… of a 2019 peer-reviewed journal article, “Women’s Experiences in Early Physical Anthropology.” As a unified whole, this interdisciplinary work brings together a biography of a prominent woman in the history of science with an account of the social and scientific context in which she …
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