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Title: Individual Facets of Sleep Hygiene as Predictors of Health
Author: Zendels, Philip
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Sleep is an important health behavior that many people struggle with. Sleep Hygiene is a set of behaviors and conditions that promote optimal sleep at night. These include avoiding physiologically arousing situations, avoiding unhealthy eating beh...

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: 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: 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: “WE DON’T LOVE THESE HOES” EXPLORING MISOGYNOIR AND BLACK MALE PATRIARCHY THROUGH SEXUAL DOUBLE STANDARDS
Author: Webber, Mariah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: While much research has been dedicated to exploring how Black people as a collective respond to racism, or how White women as collective respond to sexism, little empirical research has been found regarding the experiences of combatting both racis...

Title: High-Status Job Characteristics, Gender, and Overwork: The Buffering Effect of Free Time
Author: Speights, Sabrina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The social ordering of time within a changing workplace is a serious concern for scholars, employers, and employees alike. This study contends that the use and evaluation of free time will reduce feelings of overwork brought on by the characterist...

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: 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: 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: Gender and Leadership: A Second Order Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Santos, Kristen
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Sex role, Management
Description: Given the importance of understanding how gender bias impacts the advancement of women into upper leadership, this second-order meta-analysis attempts to explore and summarize previous developments in the gender and leadership literature in order ...

Title: Supportive Entrepreneurial Figures: Examining the Role of Gender and Racial Homophily and Status on New Venture Creation
Author: Sandoval, Rosalyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: Although women and racial minority entrepreneurs make considerable contributions to society by creating their ventures, they often face additional barriers and limitations that explain the differential rate of new venture creation between men and ...

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: 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: 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: Naming The Boogeyman: Constructing Marginalized Religion As Threats To White Bodies In The X-Files
Author: Richards, Oliver
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: The X-Files is an American science fiction television series that ran from 1993 to 2002, spawning an extended universe of books, two feature films, and an additional two seasons of the show which aired in 2016 and 2018. The show revolves around tw...

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: 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: 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: 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: Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
Author: McManimen, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...