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Muscle & money : determining the relationship between occupational physical demands and individual earning power

Creator:: O'Neill, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: Women are economically disadvantaged in most U.S. labor markets, demonstrated by a persistent gender wage gap. The relative wage discrepancy can be understood as a result of labor market conditions, human capital investments, and gender discrimination. To determine if the wage gap could be decreased, I use classical regression modeling...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: men in the United States. Dominant theoretical perspectives explain the gender wage gap as a product

A re-evaluation of industry differences in male/female wages and employment

Creator:: Gupta, Anju
Abstract:: This study re-examines how variations in market power across industries affect the relative number of females and males hired in a given occupation. The study builds upon similar work done by Sharon Oster (1975) to examine the female to male wage differences. Both market power and human capital factors such...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: attributes the causes of labor market wage and employment sex to three differentials by major factors

Preservice teachers explore gender issues in education through talk

Creator:: Cammack, J. Camille
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to analyze preservice teachers' talk about gender issues in education through a poststructural feminist theoretical framework. Eighteen Master of Arts in Teaching students volunteered to participate in a seminar. During the seminar the participants wrote about and discussed gender issues in teaching. Data collected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: by J. Camille Cammack A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

Gender differences in subjective task values in mathematics and their relations to course-taking intentions

Creator:: Conner, Daniel A.
Abstract:: There has long been discussion on whether or not there are gender differences in different academic areas, particularly mathematics. One fact that most researchers agree on is that fewer females than males take upper-level mathematics courses beginning in adolescence and continuing through college. As a result, many females severely restrict...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 5th grade students in a small community in the upper plains region of the United States, and how

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

Creator:: Misso, Brent W.
Abstract:: Early nineteenth-century America witnessed social change which significantly altered the structure of human relationships. Out of this transformation came new configurations of gender and sexuality which colored relations between the sexes well into the twentieth century. But these gender prescriptions did not merely serve to pattern male/female interactions, they informed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: physicians with a diagnosis that allowed them to discourse on social concerns about gender difference

Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

Creator:: Stone, Erin A.
Abstract:: Throughout society, many believe women are not succeeding professionally because of the institutional barriers created by men in the American workforce. However, women may be more competitive with other women than with men, especially when limited job positions are the goal. Competitiveness among women can be explained by a phenomenon...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Stone A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

The impact of gender-role identity, gender ideology and drinking motivation on binge drinking and behavioral outcomes

Creator:: Ketcham, Patricia
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference in students' drinking patterns and the resultant negative consequences based on gender role identity, gender role ideology and self-reported drinking motivations on a college campus. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 735 university students. Gender...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (propensity to binge) based on sex-role egalitarian scales? 5. Is there a difference in drinking patterns

Gender and ethnic issues in parenting : a study of some determinants of parenting in American Indian and non-Indian families

Creator:: Kawamoto, Walter T.
Abstract:: An analysis was conducted to test current theories regarding education, income, and marital satisfaction as determinants of parenting in different ways for men and women. The gender specific issues in parenting to be tested were: 1) Education is positively related to parental involvement for both men and women. 2) Marital...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Indian and Non-Indian Families by Walter T. Kawamoto A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University

Male and Female American and Japanese Perceptions of Close Friendship

Creator:: Shimizu, Mami
Abstract:: This study focused on perceptions of close friendship across gender groups in two national cultures. Four groups: a U.S. American male group, a U.S. American female group, a Japanese male group, and a Japanese female group, were studied. Cultural value differences in individualism and collectivism, "doing" and "being" orientations, masculine...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Muscle & money : determining the relationship between occupational physical demands and individual earning power

A re-evaluation of industry differences in male/female wages and employment

Preservice teachers explore gender issues in education through talk

Gender differences in subjective task values in mathematics and their relations to course-taking intentions

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

The impact of gender-role identity, gender ideology and drinking motivation on binge drinking and behavioral outcomes

Gender and ethnic issues in parenting : a study of some determinants of parenting in American Indian and non-Indian families

Male and Female American and Japanese Perceptions of Close Friendship

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