As industries relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in America continue to grow, employers will need more mathematicians and mathematically able workers than are currently graduating. Women are an underrepresented portion of these graduates, and researches say that this could be due to the difference between women’s and men’s...
This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and
ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and
subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices.
The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
A team of three people at the Republic of Palau Division of Marine Resources interviewed 54 women in seven of Palau's 16 states in a three-month study to determine the role of women in nearshore fisheries. The interviews, which generally lasted over an hour each, found that most of the...
Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
This study examined the relationship between self-esteem and student involvement among American college sophomore women. Self-esteem is defined as "a positive or negative attitude toward the self" (Rosenberg, 1989, xxviii). Student involvement is defined as the amount of time a student spends actively involved in various activities in college (Astin,...
The extent to which thermoacoustic data determines the acoustic properties of an object was studied. In the case of one dimensional thermoacoustic imaging it was shown that constant acoustic profiles are uniquely specified from measurements. For a radial thermoacoustic problem we have shown that if the acoustic source is radial...
The purpose of this study was to identify the dry season
vegetable production sources of information, technical knowledge
base and needs of women farmers expressed by the women farmers
themselves in Ngabu Agricultural Development Division, Malawi,
Central Africa.
The objectives were to identify the following aspects of dry
season vegetable...
Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty
years" (Kasmer 1)....