Data on vital events of medieval women are extremely scarce. We use a dataset based on a necrology of nuns in late …

.), African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices, Oxford: Pambazuka Press, 2010, ISBN 978 …

Research on environmental health risks suggests that public perceptions of risk may be greater than quantitative health … risk assessments, especially amongst vulnerable groups such as women and immigrants. This study uses the environmental … stress and coping framework to examine individual perceptions of air quality amongst Canadian-born and immigrant women in …

-American men and white women) are still reported in education, employment, income, health services, and incarceration. Some experts …This article focuses on the progress and regress of African-American women since the publication in 1986 of the author …’s Slipping through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women. Gaps between African-American women and other groups (including African …

homogeneous and contiguous provinces with large numbers of women and rural migrant workers in urban areas – the target groups for … in the more market-driven sectors, in the low-wage sector of retail and wholesale trade and restaurants, and for women …

This paper examines the negative portrayal and the plight of women in Akan Folktales (AF), using selected AFs from the … author’s collection of 50 to demonstrate these. Analysis of the stories shows that, in many of the tales, women are depicted … depiction is attributable to the negative perception of women in the society. In fact, in some tales, women are maltreated and …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which women are portrayed in magazine advertisements, and …, specifically, to determine what differences exist in the portrayals of women in advertising featured in magazines targeted to men … versus magazines targeted to women. This paper is based on several advertisements taken from magazines such as Vogue …