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Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Women played critical roles in making African nationalism ideologically and practically possible in South Africa. They not only participated in organisations, institutions, and campaigns that were well-documented by ... -
Women and Work in India: Descriptive Evidence and a Review of Potential Policies
(2017-12)Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor force participation has stagnated at under 30%, and recent labor surveys even suggest ... -
Women are not dangerous things: Gender and categorization
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Women in a Man’s World: The Impact of Gender on Mutual Fund Behavior, Performance, and Market Response
(2022-06-03)Over the past ten years, female representation in the U.S. mutual fund industry has stagnated: while 70% of funds are run by all-male teams, less than 2% are run by all-female teams, and the only growth in female participation ... -
Women in El Salvador: Continuing the struggle
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Women in Emergency Management: Models of Leadership and Tools for Change
(2023-04-20)Women continue to be under-represented as leaders in emergency management, thus there is a need for more voices that can influence decision making and advocate for considerations that bolster communities to be more resilient. ... -
Women with Pregnancies Had Lower Adherence to 1% Tenofovir Vaginal Gel as HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis in CAPRISA 004, a Phase IIB Randomized-Controlled Trial
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: Antiretroviral prophylaxis may be a critical strategy to reduce periconception HIV transmission. Maximizing the benefit of periconception pharmacologic HIV risk-reduction requires an understanding of the links ... -
Women's views on consent, counseling and confidentiality in PMTCT: a mixed-methods study in four African countries
(BioMed Central, 2011)Background: Ambitious UN goals to reduce the mother-to-child transmission of HIV have not been met in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper focuses on the quality of information provision and counseling and disclosure ... -
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive and Website: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?
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Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses
(Cambridge University Press, 1982)Manufacturing firm data for 1820 to 1850 are employed to investigate the role of women and children in the industrialization of the American Northeast. The principal findings include: (1) Women and children composed a major ... -
Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Nature and the Historiography of Early Modern Science
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)This essay reflects on the ambivalent reception of <i>The Death of Nature</i> among English-speaking historians of early modern science. It argues that, despite its importance, the book was mostly ignored or marginalized ... -
Women, Power, and Networks: The Gendered Politics of Economic Empowerment
(2022-05-12)How are people empowered to engage in politics if they desire to do so? In addressing this broader inquiry, this dissertation zooms in on the question of what resources people have at their disposal to facilitate political ... -
Women’s connectivity in extreme networks
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016)A popular stereotype is that women will play more minor roles than men as environments become more dangerous and aggressive. Our analysis of new longitudinal data sets from offline and online operational networks [for ... -
Women’s Creativity: is Avoidance Motivation Associated with Diminished Creativity?
(2021-05-06)The present study investigated the effects of avoidance motivation on male and female creativity in competitions. A mediation analysis was carried out to determine if avoidance motivation carries the negative effects of ... -
Women’s responses to changes in U.S. preventive task force’s mammography screening guidelines: results of focus groups with ethnically diverse women
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: The 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) changed mammography guidelines to recommend routine biennial screening starting at age 50. This study describes women’s awareness of, attitudes toward, and ... -
Women’s Sexual Functioning as a Health Outcome and a New Approach to Engaging the Public in Health Intervention Development
(2018-04-24)Sexual functioning is a critical aspect of quality of life and a health outcome in its own right. Difficulties with sexual functioning are common population-wide, but even more prevalent among women than men. Chapters 1 ... -
Women’s well-being: An examination of internalized gendered aging stereotypes and its effect on women’s well-being.
(2022-05-12)This research study examined associations between explicit and implicit attitudes related to aging stereotypes and well-being among aging women. Three hypotheses were tested. The first model tested whether or not explicit ... -
The Woodhouse transcripts of the poems of Keats
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Woodrow Who?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)