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- Title
- Does Gender Matter? A Moderated Model for Family Climate and Psychological Ownership of the Family Firm as Experienced by Next-Generation Family Members.
- Author
- Shike, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship
- Description
- While most family business leaders want their offspring to take over the family business, most next-generation family members choose to pursue opportunities outside their families’ businesses. This research aims to understand how internal family d...
- Title
- Racial and Gender Concordance: Effects on Utilization of Health Services Among Individuals Enrolled in a Primary Care Case Management Delivery System
- Author
- Smith, III, Galen
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- Very few studies to date have directly examined the impact of race or gender patient-provider concordance on the utilization of health services. This is particularly noteworthy given the role that the linkage between concordance and health service...
- Title
- Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney
- Author
- Yates, Sophie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Sex role, Sex
- Description
- At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, Europe bore witness to what Lynne Huffer has termed "a crisis in sexual definition", stemming from the gradual shift in popular conceptions of non-normative sexual acts as behaviors monitored by ecclesi...
- Title
- An Exploration of Gender Differences in Seventh-Grade Single-Sex Mathematics Classrooms in a Co-Educational Public School
- Author
- Rohn, Debra
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching
- Description
- The purpose of this exploratory case study was to examine the learning experiences of students enrolled in an all-girls and all-boys math class. Forty-nine (22 boys and 27 girls) seventh-grade students from a rural co-educational public middle sch...
- Title
- Black Women Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators of Persistence and Degree Completion in a Predominately White University
- Author
- Howell, Cathy
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- This study explored the experiences of persistence and degree completion for Black women at a Predominately White Institution (PWI). The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Black Feminist Thought (BFT). The participants were 12 Bl...
- Title
- A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
- Author
- Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management
- Description
- Despite years of evidence showing that men are typically considered to be more appropriate and effective in leadership positions than women, a recent debate has emerged over the potential existence of a female leadership advantage in certain conte...
- Title
- Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
- Author
- Barry, Leanne
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Social psychology
- Description
- Gender is widely considered to be a major contributing factor in workplace inequality. This is largely due to the gendering of occupations by labelling certain jobs as more appropriate for one gender than the other. In this paper, I examine gender...
- Title
- EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Author
- Graham, David
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...
- Title
- Gendered Antecedents of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors
- Author
- Sargent, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior
- Description
- While much is known regarding important outcomes of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), little research exists regarding possible antecedents. The present study applies a gender lens to establishing antecedents of FSSB using Social Role...
- Title
- Feminism in Oz: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series and Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die Series
- Author
- Murphy, Shannon
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature
- Description
- L. Frank Baum is best known for his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story of a young girl named Dorothy who has an abundance of adventure. It is lauded by many as "the quintessential American Fairy Tale" (Riley 3), and it has become the inspira...
- Title
- HOW ATTITUDES AFFECT GENDER AS A STATUS CHARACTERISTIC
- Author
- Randolph, Kyle
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology, Psychology, Experimental
- Description
- Status Characteristics theory (SCT) argues that individuals’ gender attitudes are inconsequential in the status process. SCT states that, since the status process is subconscious, conscious beliefs and attitudes are irrelevant. Because of this arg...
- Title
- Internalizing Genderization: Women’s Navigation of Power Dynamics in Senior-level Student Affairs Roles
- Author
- Wheeler, Emily
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- While women have attained higher-level roles and greater representation in higher education administrator roles, the concept of the higher, the fewer (Nidiffer, 2002) represents the "gendered prestige hierarchies" (Allan, 2011, p. 58) that limit w...
- Title
- EFFECTS OF FEMININITY IDEOLOGIES AND SEXUAL SELF-CONCEPT ON HPV VACCINATION INTENTIONS: AN EXPLORATORY EXTENSION OF EXISTING HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE MODELS
- Author
- Roof, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Public health, Psychology
- Description
- Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a group of over 100 different types of related viruses currently infecting 79 million Americans, making it the most pervasive sexually transmitted infection in the United States (American Cancer Society [ACS], 201...
- Title
- Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
- Author
- Weber, Ryan
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, English literature, Sex role
- Description
- In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...
- Title
- The Effectiveness of Charismatic Signaling by Gender: A Prospective Meta-Analytic Review
- Author
- Hausfeld, Mary
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- While charismatic leadership tactics (CLTs) have been validated across a variety of settings and shown to improve leader evaluations and cause follower behaviors, the role gender may play in charismatic leadership has been understudied. The presen...
- Title
- Doctoral Students' Stress and Coping Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Author
- Elton, Kira
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- The coronavirus pandemic had a profound change to daily life. While the pandemic could be considered a stressful event within its own right, graduate school is also known to induce stress; this stress occurs due to time constraints, financial stra...
- Title
- Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
- Author
- Robbins, James
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
- Description
- The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...
- Title
- Examining Early Perceptions of Leaders and Entitativity in a Shared Leading Situation with a Focus on Gender
- Author
- Caudill, Leann
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychobiology, Sociology, Management
- Description
- As organizations become increasingly team-based and less hierarchical, the leader (and follower) role could stretch within groups and be shared by all group members. When faced with gender-diverse groups, members or observers of the group may have...
- Title
- CASTLES, GENDER, AND CHILD CULTURE: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF MEDIA AND PLAY
- Author
- Montgomery, Shannon
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Social sciences--Study and teaching
- Description
- This dissertation revealed two distinct types of castles which are marketed to boys and girls: Fortresses for boys are embedded with the masculine stereotypes of violence and active agents, and Palaces for girls imply domesticity, passivity, and a...
- Title
- THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL GENDER BELIEFS ON JOB SELECTION AND SEX SEGREGATION OF OCCUPATIONS
- Author
- Benson, James
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Sex role, Industrial relations
- Description
- Moving beyond occupational aspirations to actual selection of occupations, the current research considers the impact of individual gender beliefs on selection of occupations for men who work in male-dominated occupations compared to men who work i...