Browsing by Subject "gender"
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A cross-sectional survey study of United States residency program directors' perceptions of parental leave and pregnancy among anesthesiology trainees.
(Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie, 2021-06-22)<h4>Purpose</h4>Little is known about program directors' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding parental leave policies in anesthesiology training. This study sought to understand program director perceptions about ... -
A Woman’s Place Is in Populism? Female Leadership in the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Movements
(2018-01-25)This research project focuses on the identity formation of female leaders within the patriarchal ideology of right-wing populism. Case studies of Laura Ingraham and Michele Bachmann attempt to explain the emergence of female ... -
Case Studies Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Climate Action in the Private Sector
(2020-04-24)Applying a gender lens to climate mitigation and resilience is a developing area of interest for businesses. This project aims to increase industry focus on how companies can integrate gender into climate change mitigation ... -
Crack-Whores and Pretty Woman: The Media Framing of Sex Workers
(2018-12-05)International human rights organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Amnesty International have advised nations to decriminalize sex work in order to protect ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Energy Access as a Driver of Gender Equality: What is the Evidence?
(2020-05-22)Executive Summary Introduction Policy Problem. Worldwide, 2.7 billion people rely on traditional fuels such as wood, charcoal, agricultural residue, and animal dung for their cooking and heating needs (Mulugetta et ... -
Epidemiologic Profile and Underreporting Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence in Maringá, Brazil
(2015)Background: Intimate partner violence is a global burden that disproportionately affects women and has more severe outcomes in women as well. Our objective was to explore the epidemiologic profile for intimate partner violence ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(2020)This dissertation considers the role gender plays in labor markets, household decision-making, and health in sub-Saharan Africa.The first chapter considers the impact of fast Internet access on employment outcomes and household ... -
Essays in Empirical Development Economics
(2020)Social norms can play an important role in economic decision-making. Individuals face costs if they deviate from cultural norms in their families or communities, and firms seek to preserve reputation in order to bolster ... -
Gender Differences in the Impact of North Carolina’s Early Care and Education Initiatives on Student Outcomes in Elementary School
(Educational Policy, 2020-03-01)© The Author(s) 2018. Based on growing evidence of the long-term benefits of enriched early childhood experiences, we evaluate the potential for addressing gender disparities in elementary school through early care and education ... -
Gender Portrayals in Television Commercials: Differences Among Target Audience Age
(2012-04-26)The study investigates how gender is portrayed in television commercials targeted at children and adults. Nearly 1,000 commercials from Nickelodeon (a channel aimed at young children) and E! (a channel aimed at primarly ... -
Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual
(2011)This dissertation investigates Iron II Judean pillar figurines and their place in Judean ritual. First, the project identifies major trends in the interpretation of figurines and evaluates them using ancient Near Easter ... -
Man, Wife, and Bingo Verifying Diva: What Drag Bingo Can Do For Me and You
(2010-05-06)How is gender ideology reinforced and transformed through the interaction between the family and extra-familial social institutions in Durham, North Carolina and by extension in the contemporary United States? This study ... -
“Mountains, rivers, and the whole earth”: Koan interpretations of female zen practitioners
(Religions, 2018-04-11)© 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Though recent years have seen a critical reappraisal of Buddhist texts from the angle of performance and gender studies, examinations of Zen Buddhist encounter dialogues ... -
Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
(2017)This dissertation contends that sound and aurality ought to be more fully integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document ... -
Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic
(2018)This dissertation turns attention to the neglected history of relic practices among Protestants from late colonial America to the 1860s. It explores why Protestants deemed the material remains of their dead saints, friends, ... -
Qualities or Inequalities?: How Gender Shapes Value in the Market for Contemporary Art
(2021)How does gender inequality persist in the art world today? Or, more generally, what role do social characteristics like gender play in markets for cultural goods, such as art? That is the focus of this research. Using a ... -
Quare Dance: Fashioning a Black, Queer, Fem(me)inist Aesthetic in Ballet
(2021)What can an intersectional lens that considers race, gender, and sexuality offer ballet in the 21st century? Historically, Black and Queer stories have been relegated to the margins of ballet history in service of Eurocentric, ... -
Rethinking scale in the commons by unsettling old assumptions and asking new scale questions
(International Journal of the Commons, 2020-01-01)© 2020 The Author(s). Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons ... -
Right-of-Way: Equal Employment Opportunity on the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline, 1968-1977
(2015)This dissertation compares four programs to create equal employment opportunity on the trans Alaska oil pipeline construction project in order to demonstrate the ruptures and continuities between manpower programs to end ...
