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Title: The Warrior and the Maiden: The Participation and Representations of Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous in the Greek Revolution
Author: Mastrokolias, Olympia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History, Sex role, History, Modern
Description: This thesis explores the participation and representations of two popular and exceptional heroines of the Greek Revolution of 1821-1832, Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous, and how their legacies have been used as symbols of nationalism by...

Title: The Relationship between School Built Environment and Student Achievement in Pakistan
Author: Begum, Nahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Education and state
Description: Schools in Pakistan face many challenges, ranging from lack of qualified teachers to insufficient teaching resources. Another obstacle is the low quality of school built environment. Some important built environment factors include an available wa...

Title: The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
Author: Chauncey, Kevin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Description: The present study examined some effects of Stereotype Threat priming on participants in a two-person prompted discussion. Four pairs of participants (one man, one woman) each discussed three workplace scenarios and were prompted to give suggestion...

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: 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...

Title: SHE’S GOT THE “IT” FACTOR: DO FEMALE LEADERS GET CREDIT FOR THEIR CHARISMA?
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: While recent work has significantly advanced knowledge regarding charismatic leadership as a construct and its relationship to follower performance, substantial gaps in the literature persist. Specifically, the role gender may play as both an ante...

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: Participation in Virtual Meetings: Using the “Chat” as a Mechanism to Elevate Attendee Voices
Author: Kreamer, Liana
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Sociology, Management
Description: A key component of team performance is participation among group members. One widespread organizational function that provides a stage for participation is the workplace meeting. With the shift to remote work, roughly half of all meetings are now ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...