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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"working women"”.
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Working women in Cape Town: reconciling religious beliefs and modernity
… to the entrenched notion of male protection of women. In exchange for such protection, the wife has the reciprocal duty of obedience to her husband, which may lead to the restriction of her right to work, amongst other rights. In contemporary societies where women are increasingly participating …
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Stress and the coronary-prone behavior pattern in working women
… perspective nor is it well understood in women. The present study attempts to describe the TABP in a population of working women. The description is based both on physiological and psychological measures. Ninety-four women were chosen from an original population of 157 women from the …
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Influence of Self-Care for Remote Working Women: A Phemenological Study
… explores the dual responsibility of remote working women and organizations in normalizing self-care and establishing healthy work–life boundaries. The purpose of the study is to examine how personal self-care practices intersect with organizational expectations and how both employees and …
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The experience of role balance among Australian working women with multigenerational caring responsibilities
Approximately 10% of women in developed countries are working sandwich generation women, who combine paid employment with ongoing multigenerational caring responsibilities for at least one child under 18 years and one parent or parent-in-law. This role combination is expected to become more common …
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Lived experiences of low-wage, working women in Texas without paid postpartum leave
… explored the lived experiences of low-wage, working women (LWWW) in Texas without paid postpartum leave (PPL). The USA remains one of the few countries in the world that does not provide the formal, functional social support of PPL. Postpartum is one of the most sensitive times for women and …
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Clothing behavior of working women related to self-image/clothing- image congruity and achievement motivation
… the home. The importance of this segment of women has been evidenced in the popular literature and by retailers who have created specialty clothing areas catering to the employed woman. Clothing and the self-concept have been related in research studies for several years. Clothing also has …
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Working women and the Lilly Ledbetter Act: a case study on misleading rhetoric of equal pay
… signaling that the battle over fair pay for women has gone on for too long. I argue that the neoliberal rhetoric around equal pay has to change to an intersectional approach where women can make legal claims based on many experiences of discrimination. I use the Lilly Ledbetter Paycheck …
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Clothing style preference of working women related to self- image/clothing-image congruity and public self-consciousness
… mailed self-administered questionnaire from 229 working women who were faculty (75) and staff (154) members of two universities. The instrument includes the two Self-image/Clothing image Congruity Measures, Indirect and Direct Measures, the ClothingStyle Preference Measure, Public …
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Antecedents of work-family conflict among Hindu working women in South Africa: stressors, social support, and cultural values
… of work-family conflict (WFC) among Hindu working women in South Africa, a minority subgroup shaped by a unique set of historical, political, and cultural dynamics. Responding to repeated calls in the literature for the examination of work-family issues in unique cultural contexts, this …
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Human Resources Utilization Among Korean Professional Working Women: Role Changes and the Factors Which Influence Potential Role Gratification and Strain
In conclusion, Korean professional working women have higher gratification and more strain than do housewives. Other cultural experiences of the sample may have influenced ideologies that modified sex-role attitudes and gratification and strain from performing sex-roles.
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Women and the Violent Workplace
… understood (Dolan 2000, Webster et al 2007). Women’s experiences of workplace violence have been overlooked, primarily because women exist within a patriarchal society, and many are deemed of a lesser value than men. A patriarchal society has elevated men into positions of power whilst women …
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In Her Place: Geographies of Urban Female Labor in Spanish Culture (1880--1931)
"My analysis of urban female working characters reveals that middle-class representations of working women result from a dominant conceptualization of class and gendered spaces in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spain. For that reason, my thesis draws a geography of urban female labor …
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Hollywood's image of the working woman
Hollywood's Image of the Working Woman examines the stereotypes presented of working women in main stream Hollywood films. The thesis compares films portrayals of working women from "women's films" of the 1930s and 1940s with more contemporary films from the 1980s and 1990s. The paper explores the …
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Work-Life Balance Among Working Married Women: What Social Workers Need to Know
<p>This project explored the way working mothers cope with home, work, family demands as well as self-care. It mainly focused on the balance they have been able to achieve in their lives as working women, wife, and mothers. This study used qualitative research to examine the challenges these women …
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Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh
… Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing sector. Using information collected by the author from readymade garments firms, women workers and a group of non-working women, this thesis investigates the factors behind women’s labour market …
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