The study investigated undergraduate students’ perceptions of gender equality, their practices and perceived strategies to promote equality in Afghanistan. It also examined the impact participants’ on responses. authors used an online questionnaire collect data from 448 students using snowball sampling technique. They descriptive inferential statistics analyze data. findings showed that majorit...

The current study explores associations among sexism, gender, and support for two approaches to reduce men’s violence toward women targeting (a) behavior male (b) women’s so that they can avoid violence. between sexism these interventions were examined in 21,937 participants the New Zealand Attitudes Values Survey. For both men, hostility nontraditional (hostile sexism) was associated with lowe...

PURPOSE To determine whether professional activities, professional productivity, and salaries of life sciences faculty differ by gender. The authors undertook this study because previous studies found differences in the academic experiences of women and men. METHOD In 2007, the authors conducted a mailed survey of 3,080 life sciences faculty at the 50 universities whose medical schools receiv...

nowadays encyclopedias are considered a primary and important source to maintain information about various topics. women studies, as well, have been considered as an important issue in the last century ruth roded has discussed the subject of women’s rights in the qur’an, in her article “women and the qur’an” for the encyclopedia of qur’an. although the article benefits from some advantages and ...

This qualitative study investigated attitudes toward gender roles and perception of freedom among Iranian students ( n = 20) in Hungary. Four topics were extracted from the abductive content analysis semi-structured interview transcripts: (1) essentialism, (2) gender-role egalitarianism, (3) traditional stereotypes, (4) gendered freedom. Results indicated that: many men adopted although women d...

This article discusses gender, especially in women’s job qualifications, and provides opportunities for women society. Gender issues are expected to be addressed, but what about the people of Wakan village who still use patriarchal culture daily? It causes unable work according their talents. study refers Foucault's theory knowledge power regime. In contrast, research method uses descriptive qu...

BACKGROUND Most of the HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have not taken into consideration the context of the relationship and the gender constructs that influence relationship dynamics. These efforts have failed to view HIV prevention as a collaborative process between partners. Therefore, it is important to explore how relationship dynamics and gender constructs influence how men and women involved...

OBJECTIVES This study explored the disruption of gender identity and gender role as a result a traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHOD Four adults (two men, two women) who sustained a TBI between the ages of 18 and 30 years and were at least 1 year postinjury participated in six 1-hr interviews concerning changes in (a) perceived masculinity or femininity, (b) involvement in intimate relationshi...

1302 The Institute of Medicine has defined sex as “the classification of living things, generally as male or female according to their reproductive organs and functions assigned by the chromosomal complement.” The term sex means biological differences between women and men, including chromosomes, sex organs, and hormonal contributions. Sex differences result from true biological differences in ...

A current and pertinent topic is that of gender studies within healthcare students academic staff courses. This commentary explores the feminization extent to which women in Malta hold key roles academia faculties Health Sciences, Dental Surgery, Medicine Surgery at University Malta. Data were publicly available from university website. Gender (male: female ratio) trends elicited data represent...