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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"undergraduate women"”.
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The Dynamics of Belonging Among Undergraduate Women in Engineering
… have voiced the need to increase the presence of women in engineering as a national priority. Women have always been underrepresented in engineering spaces and are too often told either explicitly or through negative treatment that they do not belong in engineering. This messaging is a barrier to …
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Profiles of Persistence: A qualitative Study of undergraduate Women in Engineering
… to investigate a phenomenon, persistence of undergraduate women in their engineering majors, from a qualitative paradigm. Guided by the tenets of feminist and inclusive research, the assumption was made that all women, whether they persist or not in their engineering majors, have strengths …
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Why do Undergraduate Women Persist as Stem Majors? A Study at TwoTechnological Universities
<p>Women continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields despite significant policy efforts to increase the number of qualified women. Prior research focused on access for women into advanced high school mathematics and science courses. Parity has been achieved in academic prerequisites for STEM …
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Women in Technology: Why are Undergraduate Women Underrepresented in the field of Information Technology
… has grown, so has the gender gap between men and women working in Information Technology. This thesis will seek to explore the reasons why, despite the relevance and increasing number of jobs in the technology workforce, there are relatively few women employed in information systems and computer …
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Fighting An Uphill Battle: Black Undergraduate Women Navigating Higher Education While Acknowledging and Challenging Media Portrayals of Black Women
… shows often become barriers that limit Black women in higher education, influencing the ways in which they experience college campuses, including how they are treated by faculty and peers and how they interact with others in these spaces. This study examined the perspectives of Black women …
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THE ROLE OF RESIDENTIAL COMMUNIIES FOR THE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL SUCCESS OF UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN STEM MAJORS: THE CASE OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN ETHIOPIA
… role for the social and academic integration of undergraduate women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. It also explained how the social and academic integration of the women contributed for their overall college success.</p> <p> There were three groups of …
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“IT’S LEVELS TO THIS”: BLACK UNDERGRADUATE FEMALE STUDENT PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THEIR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT IN BLACK STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
… study describes the experiences of Black undergraduate women who are involved in a Black student organization at a public predominantly White institution (PWI) beyond the freshman year. Understanding how these students are involved, the meaning they make of their participation, and how …
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Lemons Into Lemonade: Black Undergraduate Women's Embodiment of Strength and Resilience at a PWI
… is a qualitative research project for Black undergraduate women and about Black undergraduate women. The aim of this dissertation is to lift, center, and share the lived experiences of Black undergraduate women as they reflect on the messages and memories of coming into their Blackness, their …
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The relationship of multicultural awareness and belief of rape myths with intellectual empathy and empathic emotion for victims of acquaintance and stranger rape among undergraduate women and men
The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate the contribution of observer sex, type of rape, multicultural awareness and belief in rape myths to intellectual empathy and empathic emotions of male and female college students toward acquaintance or stranger rape victims. This study also sought to …
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Do I belong? Narratives of sense of belonging and fit from underrepresented African American and Latina women in science undergraduate majors
… of underrepresented African American and Latina undergraduate women in science majors. More specifically, the study focused on the factors that contributed to the participants being engaged or disengaged in the science campus community. The use of narratives provided a detailed understanding …
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Black Women's Literary Mixtape: Our Self-Defined Experiences of Student Success
The literature addressing Black undergraduate women's student success is growing yet remains limited in definition of success. Often outcomes-data drives the definition of success and what a successful collegiate experience looks like. This research study, grounded in Black Feminist Thought, and …
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Neural Correlates of Sexual Response: An ERP Investigation of Responses to De-Contextualized Sexual Cues
… cues. In Study 1, opposite-gender attracted undergraduate women (N = 40) viewed images of sexual and nonsexual body parts varying in activity state (flaccid or erect penises; relaxed arms or flexed biceps). In Study 2, opposite-gender attracted undergraduate women (n = 27) and men (n = 28) …
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Case Studies of Undergraduate Women's Leadership Development at a State University
Leadership development among undergraduate college women is essential to institutions of higher education and to society. Research has indicated that sex-bias and sex-stereotypes are abundant, with men frequently being labeled as the more prominent gender in leadership roles and situations. …
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Correlates of Disordered Eating Behavior in Female Undergraduates: Development and Validation of a Structural Model
… behaviors are relatively common among female undergraduates, many questions about their etiology remain unanswered. In the current study, structural equation modeling was used to investigate some of the potential mediating relationships among variables previously found to be associated with …
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Appearance-Related Commentary and Body Image in Women
… effects of appearance-related commentary among undergraduate women of different ethnic groups. The aims of the current study were to examine: (1) ethnic differences in body dissatisfaction, eating disorder psychopathology, sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, appearance-related …
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Predictors of bulimia among university women
… was mailed to a random sample of 771 undergraduate women at Virginia Tech. The research instrument was designed to accurately estimate the frequency of bulimia among university women. Bulimia was operationalized in specific behavioral terms that extend the DSM-III definition. The …
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The Effect of Mindfulness on Racial Stereotype Activation and Application
… were also examined. Sixty traditional-aged undergraduate women participated in this study (20 completed the mindfulness course and the remaining completed a non-MBSR physical education course). The results revealed that training was not associated with decreased racial stereotype bias on the …
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The Relationship Between Trauma-Related Shame, Disordered Behaviors, and Contextual Factors of Sexual Trauma Beyond Trait-Shame and Sex-Guilt
… examine this relationship among a sample of 360 undergraduate women with histories of sexual trauma, hypothesizing that trauma-related shame and motivations for participation in extreme sports, drinking games, and sex would differ based on the contextual factors of sexual trauma and the past …
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The influences of identities and social connectedness on self-objectification
<p>According to objectification theory, girls and women are socialized to adopt an external observer’s view of the self. Self-objectification occurs when there is an emphasis on physical appearance and a de-emphasis and devaluation of internal and physical competence features, all of which have …
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To Be or Not To Be a Feminist: A Qualitative Study
… in action to reduce inequality between men and women. Two focus groups were held to discuss these issues with undergraduate women. All but one of the members self-identified as feminists. Group members aligned themselves with one of two definitions of feminist. Some women defined feminists as …
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