INTRODUCTION Gendered practices of working life create gender inequalities through horizontal and vertical gender segregation in work, which may lead to inequalities in health between women and men. Gender equality could therefore be a key element of health equity in working life. Our aim was to analyze what gender (in)equality means for the employees at a woman-dominated workplace and discuss ...

ii Acknowledgement I would like to first communicate the high esteem I hold for the University of New Orleans' Sociology Department in general. My understanding of the social world has been expanded and my longstanding academic curiosities have been nurtured. For these reasons, I am especially grateful. In particular, I would like to thank the chair of this thesis, Dr. Susan Mann, who consisten...

In Bangladesh, the BBC Janala project is using multimedia to give adults opportunities to learn English for economic purposes. English lessons are available on mobile phones, the web, a newspaper and a TV show. Despite the large numbers of people accessing the BBC Janala media products, there is a gendered digital divide, with much fewer women accessing the web and mobile lessons in particular....

This analysis has been previously published under the title "Stuck!? Organizational Reforms and Feminization of Middle Management: The Common Mechanism and Societal Differences" in the working paper series of the Helsinki School of Economics. Summary In this article, we analyze the longitudinal relationship between organizational reforms (with downsizing elements) and feminization of a specific...

BACKGROUND Globally, an estimated 300,000 children under the age of 18 participate in combat situations; those in armed groups in particular suffer prolonged exposure to psychological and physical abuse. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel movement known for its widespread conscription of children; yet little is known about this process once the group moved beyond northern Uganda. In th...

BACKGROUND The estimated one in three women worldwide victimized by intimate partner violence (IPV) consistently demonstrate elevated STI/HIV prevalence, with their abusive male partners' risky sexual behaviours and subsequent infection increasingly implicated. To date, little empirical data exist to characterise the nature of men's sexual risk as it relates to both their violence perpetration,...

BACKGROUND Undertaking HIV research in the culturally diverse Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) requires careful consideration of social, cultural and religious beliefs and practices. Here, we share a detailed description of culturally informed research processes and lessons learned from the first ever study undertaken on male circumcision for HIV prevention at a faith-based university i...

Through research such as Laura Miller, Yoshiko Matsumoto, and Benedict Anderson, it has been argued that a convergence between the genders for Japanese speakers has occurred during the past 20 years. Japanese definition of femininity is evolving but not necessarily outwardly towards hyper-traditional femininity. Instead we see examples of how women have begun to incorporate masculine tagged phr...

Abstract This article advances and tests an original theory of a “feminine homestyle” to explain how female legislators develop relationships with constituents that both mitigate the potential for gendered biases fulfill communal goals motivate women run political office. We use audit study legislator responsiveness direct email communication. show lawmakers are more responsive constituent comm...

Previous research conducted in laboratory settings has shown reliable gender differences in autobiographical memory. However, these studies have primarily focused on structural or emotional aspects of memory narratives told to an unfamiliar experimenter. The present study extends this literature by investigating gender differences in social references and interpersonal themes in parent-child na...