Holding Up

Are women still holding up half of heaven in Vietnam? The gender wage gap

The coexistence of the government sector, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and private sector provides a natural setting to examine the impact of economic reform in Vietnam on gender earning differentials. The three sectors reflect different degrees of influence of the Socialist ideology, with the private sector most liberalised. Have women fared better during the transition into a market econom...

How many grammars am I holding up? Discovering phonological differences between word classes

It is a well established fact that languages may exhibit phonological differences between different classes of words. For example, nouns and verbs may show systematic differences with respect to stress placement (English: Chomsky and Halle 1968, chap. 3; Lenakel: Hammond 1984), accentual or tonal patterns (Fukuoka Japanese: Smith 1999, 2001; Hausa: Newman 2000), prosodic root shapes (Classical ...

Who's holding up the queue? Delay in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Holding a mirror up to the self: egocentric similarity beliefs underlie social projection in cooperation.

Similarity between partners entails positive consequences for cooperative interactions. But do people rely on this assumption to construe egocentric judgments about others? Five experiments examined the possibility that people project onto their partners because they believe that similarity to the self leads to success in cooperation. Studies 1a and 1b show that people hold an egocentric simila...

Holding Up Half the Sky: Democracy and its Implications for Chinese Women

China is democratizing, but what does this entail for Chinese women, a relatively powerless group within society? This thesis focuses on the implications of democracy for women in China through comparing and contrasting the efficacy of electoral participation and civil society in empowering women. It finds that civil society, as seen in government-organized non-government organizations such as ...