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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"women's decisions"”.
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The Individual, Institutional, and Interactional Influences on Women's Decisions to Have a Child: A Multi-Level Examination.
… institutional, and interactional) of married women's decisions to have a child. The individual level consists of normative childbearing considerations for women and women's fertility intentions as antecedents of fertility decisions. I control for individual characteristics such as age, …
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Factors Associated with Women's Decisions to Obtain Routine Cervical Cancer Screening in a Prepaid Health Care System
… study was to explore the factors affecting women's decisions to participate in preventive cervical cancer screening using a conceptual model proposed by Cummings, Becker, and Maile (1980). This descriptive-comparative study investigated the effect between the components of this model (age, …
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A naturalistic investigation of women's decisions to leave school: application of three theories to the problem of community college withdrawal
… framework do not fully explain why the women in this study chose to withdraw from college. These women did not seem to perceive that the institution had encouraged them to lower their aspirations and to relocate in the curriculum (Clark). The women also did not seem to consider the job …
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Essays on Health Economics
… the phenomenon that individuals postpone certain decisions which incur instantaneous costs but bring long-term benefits, is captured in economics by hyperbolic discount factors and the corresponding time-inconsistent preferences. This chapter extends the semi-parametric identification and …
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Attitudes, practices and knowledge regarding cervical cancer screening among Greek women in the area of Perth
… the attitudes, practices and knowledge of Greek women in Perth, Western Australia, regarding cervical cancer screening. This is important because no study has yet examined the cervical screening pattern of this group, despite their low participation rate in screening programs. Qualitative …
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The Comparative Impact of Family Policies in Sweden and Japan
What impact do family policies have on women's ability to have a family and participate in the labor market? Drawing on two cases, Japan and Sweden, I will identify different patterns of family policies' impact on fertility rates and women's participation in the labor market. Comparing the …
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Factors associated with women's decision to leave a male-dominated major and enter a female-dominated major
… cultures played in selecting and channeling women from male-dominated to female-dominated majors. Since academic major is linked to the kind of vocation a person pursues, scarcity of women in certain majors constitutes an obstacle to opportunity in the work force. Literature was used to …
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Women's Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Hormone Replacement Therapy
<p>A women's life expectancy has increased from 65 years in 1940 to 80 years in 1993 (Health United States, 1996). Despite this, the average age of menopause has remained constant at approximately the age of 50. Most woman can expect to spend a third of their lives in the post menopausal years. An …
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Decision making and abortion methods
… service providers' adequacy to facilitate women's choices to have either a medical or surgical abortion. Both the medical and surgical methods of abortion are effective procedures to terminate unwanted pregnancies in early gestation. Provided there is no medical contraindication, women can …
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Why Are Women with Leadership Certification Not Pursuing School-Level Leadership Positions
… of the present study was to understand why women with leadership certification do not seek formal administrative roles. More specifically, the study examined why women with leadership certification choose to pursue a program in administrative preparation; assessed the reasons certified women …
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Exploring possible influences of HIV/AIDS-related stigma on risky sexual behaviour and childbearing decisions: Cape Town 2002-2009
… study found out that young Black and Coloured women who held symbolic HIV/AIDS-related stigma attitudes were more likely to perceive themselves at a reduced risk of infection with HIV and continue to engage in risky sexual behaviours. There were indications of possible race-gender differences …
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The Professional Woman's Decision to Retire: The Process of Transition
… 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 age 55 or …