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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"women's experiences"”.
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Women's Experiences With Distance Education
This thesis examines issues that affect women in online learning, and discusses four women's particular experiences in the University of Central Florida's distance learning program. Online education involves aspects of support and communication that may affect women's learning experiences either …
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Women's Experiences of Internalized Sexism
<p>This study involved exploring the lived experiences of women with sexism and its internalization. Ten women participated in the study to share their experiences through personal narratives. The study was qualitative in nature and results yielded coded phenomenological themes related to the …
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Women's Experiences With Chronic Heart Failure
… and a slight predominance of the illness in women rather than men. The incidence of this condition was reduced in males nearly three times that of females. Women survive longer after diagnosis, however they are hospitalized more, and they have more symptoms and a poorer quality of life. There …
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Narratives about God and Gender: Women's experiences
… was to examine complexities which constitute women's narratives in a conservative Christian church context. Complexities often occur around self-perception, religious beliefs, choices and change, in regard to gender relations. A review of literature indicated that social constructions about …
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Women's experiences of formal mentoring : an exploratory study
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-123).
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Women in stem : a qualitative study on women's experiences
This research aims to highlight the subjective experiences which females are exposed to every day in their studying in the STEM field. Women have been found to be majorly underrepresented in the STEM field, both amongst students as well as in the work force (Blickenstaff, 2014). This has created a …
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Hmong American College Women's Experiences of Parent-Child Relationships
… relationships of Hmong American college women. Fourteen women in their junior or senior year from five Midwestern colleges or universities participated in the study. Symbolic interaction theory was used as a guiding framework and a phenomenological method was employed to understand the …
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Exploring Higher Weight Women's Experiences of Provider Weight Stigma
… of weight stigma as experienced by higher weight women in mental health treatment who also engage in restrictive eating behaviors. Women in larger bodies who are emotionally or behaviorally restrictive in their eating behaviors face a unique set of challenges and barriers. These include challenges …
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Negotiating marriage and divorce in Accra : Muslim women's experiences.
This thesis sets out to investigate Muslim women’s marital experiences in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. In particular, these experiences had to do with negotiating marriage and divorce. It included the broad marital relations like decision-making, roles and responsibilities, and the management and …
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South African Muslim women's experiences : sexuality and religious discourses
This dissertation seeks to investigate the experiences of South African Muslim women in relation to sexual dynamics and marital relationships. By using in-depth interviews as the main empirical research method, this feminist study foregrounds women's voices in the production of religious meaning. I …
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Muslim women's experiences of motherhood: a South African perspective
This study explores South African Muslim women's experiences of motherhood; particularly the ways in which Muslim women themselves construct and enact their maternal roles in relation to their social realities and faith tradition. Using an Islamic feminist analytical framework, I employed the …
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Women's experiences of the workers' compensation system in Queensland, Australia
… phenomenological study undertaken to understand women's experience of the workers' compensation system. Eleven women were interviewed. They ranged in age from twenty-five to sixty-five years and represented diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. All women were from a non-indigenous …
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Young Women's Experiences of Viewing Thinspiration and Fitspiration on Instagram
… like Instagram, particularly among young women, researchers have begun to study relationships between social media and body image. Much of this research, however, has used quantitative research methods, which cannot capture the rich, inner experiences of individuals. Popular trends on …
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Young Women's Experiences of Self-Harm: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
… Analysis (Smith, 1997) was used to explore young women's experiences of self-harm and a from this a new model of self-harm was. constructed. This model is grounded in the participants' experiences, rather than in a particular theoretical paradigm or clinical perspective. The participants' …
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