However, potential women returners, women who have recently left IT employment and may or may not return, remain an under-researched group. We studied the effects of social outcome expectations on the intention to return to IT employment for 182 potential women returners from...
Women, even when they could not make sense of the rules imposed on them, not only adhered to them but enforced them on each other. Social and gender inequality are quite openly represented in the story and the reader can glean evidences of these throughout the story. Social expectations were...
Reynolds, P. J. (2009). The Celluloid Ceiling: Women Academics, Social Expectations, and Narrative in 1940s American Film. Gender and Education, 21, 209-224.Reynolds, P. 2009. "The Celluloid Ceiling: Women Academics, Social Expectations, and Narrative in 1940s American Film." Gender and ...
Older adults are particularly susceptible to social isolation and loneliness, which can be attributed to various factors including deteriorating health, changes in the size of their social networks (such as the loss of family members or friends), and social and demographic considerations (e.g. house...
Common behaviours of persons with social anxiety disorder (SAD), such as submissive behaviours, may be more consistent with societal expectations of women than men and therefore more likely to be associated with shame in socially anxious men than women. We examined the hypothesis that submissive ...
Long-term prevention of gender-based violence, like intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion, requires efforts to change the social environment that facilitates violence against women, yet limited research is available on how to change social environments. One reason is that there are few to...
phenomenon, “not taking action” formed by all the groups. Chinese Confucian culture was revealed as the factor influencing the dynamic on the issues of sexuality. With respect to cultural expectations, government and social services agency leadership should take the lead to adopt an evidence-based...
OLDER WOMENWORKThis research contributes knowledge regarding the options of early, normal, or delayed receipt of Social Security retirement benefits and research-based findings regarding women's expected and actual timing of election of Social Security retirement benefits. First, descriptive analyses of ...
The Theory of Planned Behavior provided a good framework to explain saleswomen’s responses to sexual harassment from customers. Silence and inaction were the norm because of perceived potentials for further personal harm, in common with other studies. Policy Implications Our findings indicate a need...
We examined if sexual pleasure was associated with various sexual health indicators (i.e., communication about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), condom use, and absence of sexual problems). Results Women reported less sexual pleasure than men. Results further indicate that sexual pleasure was ...