Abstract This paper provides new evidence at the intersectionality of gender, family status, and culture by focusing on a previously little researched group middle-class women in an emerging economy. While existing literature examines both structural normative constraints for entrepreneurship, is known about gains from relaxing when compared to men. In addition examining this question, sheds li...

This critical review shows that, despite increasing attention to fathers in social work practice and research, men are still largely the 'unheard gender'. Almost all the social work literature that deals with men discusses them as fathers, namely in terms of their function in the family. Very little of it looks at men in other roles or situations or concerns itself with men's experiences, feeli...

While our culture constantly evokes anger, it also places constraints on the expression of anger. The constraints for women are different, and more restrictive, than those for men. Women’s assigned subordinate position generates anger. Women’s traditional roles and internalized cultural concepts of “femininity,” however, entwine to characterize their expressions of anger as pathological. Men, i...

The article describes a 20-year longitudinal study of body weight, dieting, and disordered eating in women and men. Body weight increased significantly over time in both women and men. However, women's weight perception and dieting frequency decreased over time, whereas men's weight perception and dieting frequency increased, and disordered eating declined more in women than in men from late ad...

Arguing that men and women are different is risky business as the social demand to eliminate the gender binary increases. However, in her latest book Evolution and Gender: Why It Matters for Contemporary Life, Dr. Rosemary L. Hopcroft, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, not only delves into the question of how men and women are different, but also explore...

This paper explores the concept of being and performing masculinity in Karim Raslan’s short story Go East. Torn between being a man in his own terms and performing socially endorsed masculine roles and sexual desires, the protagonist, Mahmud, negotiates and transgresses gender borders, resulting in his inability to sexually perform with women and incapacity for emotional and physical intimacy w...

background: phospholipids are distributed asymmetrically between inner and outer leaflets of the plasma membrane of live cells. early during apoptosis, this asymmetry is disrupted and phosphatidylserine becomes exposed on the outside surface of the plasma membrane. there is little information about the effects of vitrification on apoptosis. objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluat...

Gender involves men as well as women. Attempts to understand gender have sometimes used the idea of sex roles; and sometimes have treated men and women as simple categories. But the most fruitful approach is to see gender as a system of social relations. Masculinities are the patterns of social practice associated with the position of men in any society’s set of gender relations. Bodily differe...

Three decades ago, Grove introduced his sex-role theory of mental illness, which attributes women's higher rates of psychological distress to their roles in society. Central to his hypothesis is that marriage is emotionally advantageous for men and disadvantageous for women. This article revisits this topic with data from the National Survey of Families and Households. The analyses indicate tha...

This study examines Islamic concepts of 'Iddah (waiting period for a divorced wife) and how the Feminists view it. The aim is to comprehend different perspectives try put problem in right position. research purely library using socio-philosophical approach. Data were obtained from literature, books, available documents. Based on results study, it can be concluded that teachings 'iddah intended ...