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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 Intersectional Effects of Race, Gender, and Class on Worker Outcomes
Author: Frevert, Tonya
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social structure, Women's studies
Description: In this dissertation, I investigate how the combined structural locations of workers’ race, gender, and class affect their individual outcomes in their personal domain (health perceptions), their work domain (job satisfaction), and the interface b...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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: 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...