Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programs slowly developed gender-policies to reflect the recent upsurge in females' participation in armed groups in combat and support roles. This has not translated, however, into females' successful inclusion in DDR. The the…
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This thesis presents an analysis on the role of courts and how the courts in Nigeria can improve adolescent girl's access to reproductive and sexual health services. It argues that the present poor state of adolescent girl's reproductive and sexual health stems from discriminati…
Early adolescence is when many physical, biological and psychological changes occur. Among the many transition events going on at this time is the move from elementary to middle, junior high and high school. It is at this critical time that adolescents begin to question their id…
The main purpose of this research was to examine and describe the factors and attitudes that influenced sports participation among adolescent girls in Kenya. The research questionnaire was surveyed among adolescent girls 12-16 years (N=3942) in ten tribes residing in ten Distric…
Pleasant T. Rowland designed The American Girls Collection with the goal of providing a line of toys and books to "enrich the lives of American girls by fostering pride in traditions of growing up female in America and celebrating the lifestyle of girls today." However, American…
This study examines the appropriateness of animations and games as attractive motivators to encourage high school (HS) students and teachers to apply math and science concepts to interactive software development. To identify factors that could motivate participants to learn abou…
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between perceived discrimination and subsequent academic motivation of adolescent refugee girls who have been resettled in the United States. In the study, I addressed the following questions: (a) Do adolescent refugee gi…
In an effort to improve outcomes and operation of its criminal and juvenile justice systems, the Washington State Legislature passed the 1997 Community Justice Accountability Act. A cornerstone of this Act was a significant push to implement "research-proven, cost effective inte…
La scolarisation des filles en Guinée française, plus précisément au Fouta-Djallon, est l'objet de la présente thèse. L'imposition de cette institution coloniale a provoqué l'émergence d'un modèle culturel qui a bouleversé l'équilibre interne de la société dans son ensemble. Les…
This study investigated factors that affect parents' decisions to send their girls to school, in contrast to their boys, in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Though arguments for girls' education are compelling, more girls are still out of school in most developing countr…
This study was designed to investigate the relationships between the creative thinking abilities of originality, fluency, and flexibility, and specific characteristics of classroom environment as perceived by tenth grade female students and their Arabic teachers. Such factors in…
Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discur…
This study explored factors that impact the Anlo Ewe girl child's formal educational outcomes. The issue of female and girl child education is a global concern even though its undesirable impact is more pronounced in African rural communities (Akyeampong, 2001; Nukunya, 2003). A…
HIV (human immune deficiency virus) and STI (sexually transmitted infection) are public health problems among youths in Nigeria where high school females are disproportionately affected compared to their male counterparts. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of c…
The education of young girls in Senegal is affected by low admission and completion rates. This study unveils some of the socio-economic factors relating to the schooling of females in rural Muslim areas; it focuses on Fouta Toro, Senegal. Despite certain measures which aimed at…
For decades after independence many African nations have invested a significant portion of their national budget into education development. Global enrollment rates however, are still low in many Sub-Saharan countries. Moreover, the enrollment rate hides gender disparity and con…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the causes of the differential treatment of sick boys and girls in Minia, Egypt. I give attention to the social, economic, and cultural factors that define the position of women in this setting and that explain the distribution of d…
The present study investigated differences in the impact of attributions of responsibility on young (5 to 10 1/2 years old) sexual abuse victims' adjustment to the abuse within the frameworks of perspective taking and self-concept, because the literature suggested that the relat…
This study used narrative inquiry to investigate the construction of self-identity by fifteen incarcerated female adolescents involved in a story-telling program in a Midwestern state juvenile detention facility. A combination of critical theory, feminism, and the Islamic religi…