Although women predominate in later life, their diverse experiences of growing older have often been neglected within social gerontology and the sociology of ageing. Instead, the significance of gender and ethnicity and the interrelationship of sexism, racism and ageism, remain under theorised. More recently, some feminists have highlighted the neglect of gender issues and have examined how gen...

Sampling methodology (e.g. population-based vs. clinical samples, anonymous self-reports vs. data collected as part of mandated treatment) affects the validity of conclusions drawn from research addressing the etiology of adolescent sexual offending. Studies of unselected samples allow testing of the generalizability of etiological models suggested from investigation of selected clinical or for...

Despite its potential to diminish the culpability of battered women accused of crimes, neurobiological evidence has yet to be meaningfully deployed in the interest of these defendants. This Article describes how neurobiological evidence can provide insights into the effects of battering, at both an individual and ecological level. Domestic violence prevention advocates and medical professionals...

Women should have the right to move about within the confines of their homes among those persons with whom they share the most intimate, interpersonal relationships without fearing for their safety and well-being, for life itself. In general women accept and expect that right as a given; however recent studies cited by Davidson (1978) from the National Institute of Mental Health suggest that 50...

An ongoing investigation into the declining participation of women in IT education and professional level work has recently focused on professional women’s perceptions of the IT industry. This paper presents some of the findings from a discourse analysis of interviews with thirty-two female and two male IT professionals. The analysis identified a distinctive characteristic of the women’s discou...

Prior research shows that individual perceptions of victims play an integral role in the societal response to domestic violence, as well as victims’ responses to their own victimization. However, little research has specifically examined individual perceptions of domestic violence victims who remain in abusive relationships. This study begins to fill the void in the literature by examining coll...

Despite the fact that women constitute about half (46.6%) of the United States workforce, the proportion of women in computer science and information technology (CSIT) careers has been declining. From a high of 40% in 1986, it dropped to 29% in 1996, and further declined to about 20% in 2004 according to the Information Technology Association of America (Ramsey and McCorduck, 2005). Although ou...

BACKGROUND Today, domestic violence against women is a growing epidemic that can be observed in many countries. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to determine the types of domestic violence against women who were referred to the Legal Medical Organization of Iran in Urmia, Iran in 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS The descriptive survey included demographic information, abuse screening, and i...

The Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health and Well-Being was used as the theoretical base for the development of several spiritual well-being questionnaires, with progressive fine-tuning leading to the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM). SHALOM comprises 20 items with five items reflecting the quality of relationships of each person with themselves, other people, the enviro...

N C Med J. November/December 2010, Volume 71, Number 6 In addition to supporting these individual-focused strategies, promising evidence supports an approach that targets sexual assault bystanders, which is an innovative intervention combining individualand community-level change strategies [8]. This approach leverages the fact that, although most people will be neither victim nor perpetrator o...