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  • The women's movement in Japan and its effect on the workplace

    Creator:
    Madden-Bethune, Gwyn D.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of women in the Japanese workplace. Data obtained from in-depth interviews and questionnaires, shows that the Japanese workplace is in a state of change moving toward a higher level of opportunity for female workers. While similar to the circumstances experienced...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , engineering or the social sciences. "Nevertheless, 55 percent of all women enrolled in universities in 1991

  • Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

    Creator:
    Niazi, Amarah
    Abstract:
    This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...
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    Dissertation
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    identity plays a role in their social status only prior to marriage. Once married, women refer to their