spent and use of resources. Previous programming experience and lecture attendance were positive factors to final course score, and a tendency to work with others was a negative factor. We found no difference in final course score based on gender; however, females tended to read the
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Science Studies 2/2006 A Gendered Economy of Pleasure: Representations of Cars and Humans in Motoring Magazines Catharina Landström This paper analyses cultural signification in the co-production of gender and technology. Focusing on the popular genre of motoring magazines, it discerns a pattern organising men and women in opposite relations to cars. Men’s relationships with cars are premised on passion and pleasure while women are figured as rational and unable to attach emotionally to cars
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Feminism must submit itself to the ethical venture of characterizing quality seeing someone, determining. Relational feminist worldview created over our lifetime. In this way, to meet the difficulties that originate from being naturally introduced to local family violence, separately our lived encounters. Although, legitimizing criteria for judgment, regarding great connections over lesser or awful ones, and squeezing law to perceive and bolster those ethical separations. Additionally, requested
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Abstract Despite research that has been focused on leadership for over 10 years ago, the concept of leadership is still indefinable. This paper attempts to develop the leadership concept by investigating the possibility of the coming up with fresh measures of leadership which concentrating on the characteristics of good and bad leaders. A total of 312 managers were recruited in the study. A factor analysis was conducted to reduce 13 traits of good leadership to two factors including the good and
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Feminism and Crime Name: Course: Instructor: Institution: Date of Submission: Introduction Feminism is the belief that men and women are of equal worth and should be treated equally despite the gender. Feminism has evolved from the years. The current generation, Generation Y has a different perspective of females than the former generations. There have been three major waves of feminism evolution. The first wave was in the 1800s, women were not allowed to vote or participate in any public
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of Domination’, discussed the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Collins argues that black feminists thinking has nurtured a paradigmatic shift as it rejects additive approaches to oppression. For Collins, gender has a specific role in the development of black feminist thought. Collins stated, “U.S. black women encounter
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...(Spring 1978): 108-111 4. Kinnison, Dana. "Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.(1899) Women in Literature, Reading through the Lens of Gender. Ed. Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber. Forward by David Sadker. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. Greenwood. 2003 (22-24) 5. Skaggs, Peggy, "The Awakening's Relationship with American Regionalism, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism," Approaches to Teaching Chopin's "The Awakening," Ed. Bernard Kolaski. New York: Modern
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and mortal. Of course, this fall of Aphrodite does not go unnoticed by mythological interpretation, and there is a lot to explore. The story of Aphrodite may fall under many stereotypical interpretations, such as structuralism, social charter, and gender analysis, but she sometimes challenges them just as well. A look at structuralism using motifemes has a curious twist when it comes to the goddess of love. The main example of a motifeme pattern is as follows: the girl leaves home, the girl is
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management quotas are associated with changing demographic composition and diversity of workforce across one or more distributive categories such as gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability and education backgrounds. As per our case-study, (Stone 2013, pp. 243-244) [1] highlights that despite women had been in workforce for decades, there is gender bias in recruiting board executives. Organisations have utilised multiple strategies to overcome this phenomenon of which quota has been an
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Assess explanations for apparent gender differences in involvement in crime. (21 marks) Since the 1970s many feminist have criticised criminology for being male orientated, where by women are invisible in both theoricatical consideration and empirical studies. Patterns of offending by men and by women are notable both for their similarities and for their differences. Both men and women are more heavily involved in minor property and substance abuse offenses than in serious crimes like robbery
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