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

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    Madden-Bethune, Gwyn D.
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    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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    , engineering or the social sciences. "Nevertheless, 55 percent of all women enrolled in universities in 1991

  • Countering the subjugation of Indian women : strategies for adaptation and change

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    Moyer, Dawn J.
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    This thesis outlines dominant ideologies and practices that affect women's authority in the urban social milieu of north India. Theories that consider the causes of social stratification by gender as well as social movement patterns are useful for understanding the durability of gender roles. The utility of these theories for...
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    for privacy cultural ideologies, including the social and economic devaluation of women

  • Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

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    Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
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    This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
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    Applied Anthropology. Applied Anthropology and Women Studies presented on February 16. 2001. Title

  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

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    Ota, Brandy
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    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
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    branch of the United Nations. UNIFEM seeks to empower women through economic, social and political

  • Walking the narrow path : narratives of migration and mental health among Saudi Arabian women at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Gentry, Kristen Elizabeth
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    Since the inauguration of the King Abdullah-Aziz Foreign Scholarship Program in 2005, the number of Saudi university students in the United States has increased exponentially, and an unprecedented amount of Saudi women are seeking international degrees. The absence of scholarly research within these women’s home and host countries highlights the...
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    Saudi women at OSU as subject to modern social flows, while still firmly embedded within the

  • Academic women : individual considerations and structural forces in navigating academic organizations

    Creator:
    Almquist, Jennifer M.
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    This dissertation is situated as the third work in a series on academic women. In 1964, Jessie Bernard published Academic Women, which provided a comprehensive assessment of the status of women in academia. Two decades later, in 1987, Angela Simeone offered insight into attempts to achieve equity for women in...
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    landscape comes the need to also reconsider the approach to understanding the condition of academic women

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

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    Niazi, Amarah
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    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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    identity plays a role in their social status only prior to marriage. Once married, women refer to their

  • "A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

    Creator:
    Watson, Annaliese
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    Haiti's political and economy history has led to a maternity care system that lies out of reach, geographically and financially, of most Haitians, resulting in excessively high maternal and infant mortality. The most common birth practitioners are homebirth midwives (matwòns), who attend roughly three-fourths of all births in Haiti (UNICEF),...
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    and Social Risk Abstract approved: Melissa J. Cheyney Haiti’s

  • "We see that we are not like the others" : A Case Study Exploring the Consequences of Structural Violence for the Marseillaises

    Creator:
    Wiseman, Nicole S.
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    France's universalistic idea of citizenry has been complicated by a history of colonialism, racialization, and selective acceptance of difference. Although Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood) is France's motto, the consequences of colonial rule continue to impact the lives of non-autochthonous French citizens today. Since the colonial days, immigrants and...
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    structural violence from the perspective of Franco-Maghrebian women in Marseille, France. In these