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...

Abstract In this contribution, we offer a first exploration of stance expressions in Flemish Sign Language (VGT). Biber and Finegan (1989) define as the expression feelings, attitudes, judgments, commitments, assessments. The few studies focusing on signed languages have shown that can be expressed by various structures mechanisms such lexical signs, manual gestures (e.g., Palm Up gestures) emb...