Malnutrition is a decisive factor that could detain individual and societal advancements. It may not only reduce individual well-being, but at macro level, could also be a burden for the national health expenditure and the labour productivity. Aside from the economic context, th…
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This dissertation aims to study the gap between the theory and practice of the framework implemented by the United Nations Security Council 1325 (UNSCR 1325), which concerns the importance of women’s role in peacebuilding. Within the case study of South Sudan, this thesis analyz…
Gender equity remains an evolving issue within the United States, in spite of the long history of women’s rights legislation, including the 1986 ruling by the Supreme Court that a work environment can be declared hostile or abusive because of discrimination based on sex. In the …
Gender inequality is a pervasive global phenomenon, particularly in parliamentary representation and the political realm as a whole. Previous scholarship looked for explanations in the countries’ national development levels, political regimes and electoral systems. Some scholars…
Education is a crucial factor for nations to advance their social, cultural and economic well being. Gender equality in education is in direct proportion to gender equality in the labor force, in equal power in household and decision making. Educating females lower mother and ba…
This study provides qualitative research gathered from six information-rich collective case studies set in three Middle Eastern countries describing Arab working mother's experiences of workplace gender equity. Research has shown a need for further qualitative data for Industria…
This study investigates women's individual and collective responses to the processes of structural adjustment in Nigeria. Structural adjustment, or SAP, is the package of macro economic conditionalities imposed on African economies in crisis by the International Monetary Fund an…
Situated in the northeast corner of the South Asian sub-continent, Bangladesh is a developing country with high population density, low life expectancy, low rate of literacy and extremely low access to modern energy sources. Lack of access to electrification remains a major cons…
Women’s empowerment programs in Africa are mostly sponsored by international organizations and development agencies. However, there has been little, or no success recorded from such programs. African rural women remain poor, oppressed, marginalized and entrenched in gender inequ…
Educational testing has a long and complicated history in the United States. Currently, state- and district-level assessment systems shape the educational process in a number of ways, from curricular design to teacher evaluation to funding allocation (Au, 2007, 2011; Condie, Lef…
Gender equity in the Arab Muslim culture has been an issue on many political agendas. Gender has been used as a control measure in many of these societies. Women's roles and their applicability in today's Arab world had been regressing. In contrast, women have attained many righ…
Purpose. This case study sought to investigate the structure, pedagogy and culture of an introductory-level, high school computer science class and to examine the experiences of the girls and boys in the class to understand why so few girls enroll in the advanced computer scienc…
Sexual/reproductive/health and rights are crucial public health concerns that have been specifically integrated into the Millennium Development Goals to be accomplished by 2015. These issues are related to several health outcomes, including HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence (GB…
Sport plays an integral part in forming Nigeria's identity. Most Nigerian men either engage actively or passively in sport; however, the same cannot be said for Nigerian women. There are inherent paternalistic structures institutionalized in Nigeria that frown upon women who par…
This thesis analyses discourses about the roles and barriers to access for women to decision-making positions in Israeli sport organisations. In particular it focuses on the exploration of discourses of masculinity and femininity that underpin the relatively recent construction …
Alcohol consumption is a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality. In the United States, consumption remains highly prevalent, and certain subgroups have been increasing alcohol risks in recent decades. Among these are women in the mid-life, who have increased rates of…
This qualitative research addressed limitations and identified success strategies for African American women during their career ascension in the United States Department of Defense. The researcher used a phenomenological approach to understand African American servicewomen's li…
Utah consistently ranks poorly in measures of gender equity in the United States. For example, 30% of women in Utah County, Utah begin a college education, but do not finish their degree. Of interest, Utah County also has a high density of members of the Church of Jesus Christ o…
This project interrogates the weaponization of heteronormative marriage in processes of state formation and in relation to practices of polygamy. This dissertation explores how gender and race have been used at the service of the white settler-colonial state via the criminalizat…