OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between sports participation and health-related behaviors among high school students. DESIGN Cross-sectional design using data from the 1997 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Survey. PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative sample of 14,221 US high school students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of sports participation a...

The aim of this study was to examine the microlevel factors affecting women’s participation in Qatar workforce, as gender gap employment is still wide, and addressing issue remains an essential item on government’s policy agenda. Data were collected via a national telephonic survey representative sample Qatari nationals, chosen using simple random sampling. A regression analysis performed with ...

Abstract This paper contributes to the research on heterogeneity in labor force participation decisions between women. is done by discussing role of personality trait locus control (LOC), a measure an individual’s belief about causal relationship behavior and life outcomes, for differences probabilities. The association LOC tested using German survey data, finding that internal women are averag...

Female labor force participation rates have been stagnating despite rising female education in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of millennium. Using representative and repeated census data from a heterogeneous sample 13 African countries, this paper analyzes demographic perspective. We show that enrollment is substantially higher among most recent cohorts than earlier-born ones. The mechanical...

In India, since the 1970s, there is a declining trend in female labour force participation. Given fast economic growth, fertility rate and rising women’s educational enrolment past few decades, this decline puzzling. Assam not an exception to of participation (LFPR). This study attempt analyse patterns determinants LFPR during period from 2004 2011. The analyses are based on National Sample Sur...

The dearth of females playing so-called masculine instruments has not gone unnoticed, but frameworks for investigating females’ participation have been driven almost entirely by a feminist agenda. A construct for studying gendered participation in music, employing a post feminist perspective is presented. As one of the major areas in which female participation does not match their male counterp...