This study explores the relations between organizational spatiality, gender, and class. It examines the work performed by managers and architects on the one hand, and by various groups of female employees on the other, in constructing, reproducing, and challenging gender-class identities through space-related means. Three types of gender-class spatial work are identified―discursive, material, a...

This paper aims to explore how clients perceive the competence of female lawyers in Ghanaian law firms. As an exploratory qualitative study, thematic analytic approach was used analyse interview data gathered from 15 The findings reveal that consider gender when making hiring decisions and determining competence. also suggest legal expertise, professionalism, knowledgeability, attributes, socia...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the active Spanish working population and to describe differences related to work type. SUBJECTS AND METHOD Data were collected on 7256 individuals [82.4% male; mean age (SD), 45.4 (9.8) years] actively employed in a large car factory and a department store. Metabolic syndrome was diagnosed according to modified ATP...

No study has explored the relationship among gender differences, human capital, and investment performance. This article is the first to answer the question, “Do female fund managers outperform male ones in fund performance given the same amount of human capital inputs?” Forty-two stock fund managers in Taiwan, 11 females and 31 males, were the subjects of this research. The research period for...

Efforts to realize justice and gender equality in Fiqih study of women in pesantren need long time. This article aims to describe the study of Fiqih about women in pesantren. It used the document study method on Fiqih material about women in two pesantren in Central Java, namely Pesantren al-Hamidiyyah Lasem and Pesantren al-Ikhlas Pati, with gender analysis. This article concludes that pesantr...

Despite increases of women in the labor force, females are largely underrepresented in the American IT workforce. Among the challenges that managers face in addressing the under representation of women in the IT workforce is the identification of an appropriate theory as a basis for understanding data about gender and IT in order to reverse the gender imbalance. Hence, the purpose of this chapt...