Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids? Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women’s sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by motherhood. We do not find any unequal treatment at older ...

AN EVALUATION OF WOMEN’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS ANGER IN OTHERWOMEN AND THE IMPACT OF SUCH ON THEIR OWN ANGER EXPRESSIONSTYLEby NANCY PRAILLMay 2010Advisor: Dr. González-PrendesMajor: Social WorkDegree: Master’s of Social WorkResearch suggests that gender socialization contributes to how women perceive anger ingeneral and anger in other women, and to how women...

The present study attempts to understand the justice delivery mechanism from the perspectives of women litigants specifically within the context of Section 498-A Indian Penal Code (IPC). This research work empirically examines and explores the process of women's resistance to the male dominion within the sphere of family and law. It is a part of the larger study being taken up by the Centre for...

OBJECTIVE To determine the barriers to identification and management of domestic violence from the battered women's perspective. DESIGN Qualitative research methods using semistructured focus groups. SETTING Urban and suburban community-based organizations serving women and their families in the San Francisco Bay (Calif) area. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-one women with histories of domestic violen...

victimisation: official statistics or crime survey data. The benefits of one are set against the limitations of the other, but rarely are the two sources of data used to complement or enhance each other. This paper has as its main purpose the examination of violence against women, but in doing so both police and survey data have been used. The benefits and limitations of each source of data are...

This paper examines the role of women’s education on fertility and child health in Uganda. To identify causal effects, I exploit the timing of a national reform that eliminated primary school fees in 1997 to implement a regression discontinuity design. Women with more schooling both delay and reduce overall fertility, increase early child health investments, and have less chronically malnourish...

While domestic violence in rural areas is not different in kind or incidence from that found in urban areas of the country, rural women face unique difficulties in accessing health and social services when they experience abuse. We present an overview of rural life and the difficulties rural women face in accessing health care and other services. We describe the network of family planning clini...

Although women who experience domestic violence seek healthcare services frequently, screening and counseling rates remain low, and healthcare professionals report feeling inadequately trained to care for abused women. The English language literature from 1989 to 1999 was searched to identify and evaluate published assessments of the education of healthcare providers in domestic violence toward...

Gender differences in personal saving behaviors among single person households were investigated using the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Determinants of short-term and regular saving behavior were found to differ by gender. Women (n = 702) were less likely to save in the short term if they were in poor health, while poor health did not significantly affect the short term saving of men...

In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she aims to offer a valuable historical perspective on today’s concerns over women’s underrepresentation in the field. Jennifer Miller recommends this book for both readers...