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The Gender Imbalance in Participation in Canadian Universities (1977-2005)

Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2008

More females than males have been attending Canadian universities over the past decade and this gender imbalance in … attending university and explore the reasons for the increasing gender imbalance. We find that, in gender-specific equations …

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Transforming Masculinist Political Cultures? Doing Politics in New Political Institutions

Jones, Stephanie; Charles, Nickie; Davies, Charlotte Aull - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 2, pp. 1-1

doing politics. AMs relate this difference to the gender parity amongst Assembly Members, to the institutional arrangements …

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Inequality Within the Family: Cases of Selective Parents in Post-War Hong Kong

Wong, Yi-Lee - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 5, pp. 15-15

While members of the same family are assumed to share similar mobility chances, this paper seeks to answer the following puzzle: why do only some children of the same family attain a level of education considered to be socially desirable whereas their siblings do not? The essence of an answer...

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Sociological Work on Violence: Gender, Theory and Research

McKie, Linda - In: Sociological Research Online 11 (2006) 2

hierarchical and gendered nature of sociological work, especially on theory, combined with an earlier marginalization of gender …

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'Doing What is Right': Researching Intimacy, Work and Family Life in Glasgow, 1945-1960

Innes, Sue; McKie, Linda - In: Sociological Research Online 11 (2006) 2

is commonly perceived as a period of segregated gender roles, and in the UK a predominant male-breadwinner family model …

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Migration and Chronic Poverty

Kothari, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the...

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Child’s play? Skills, regulation and reward amongst ‘early years’ workers

Findlay, Jeanette - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2007

. Complex institutional and organisational factors maintain important aspects of gender inequality. …

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Gender, Part-time Employment and Employee Participation in the Workplace: Comparing Australia and the European Union

Markey, R.; Hodgkinson, A.; Kowalczyk, J.; Pomfret, S. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2001

issue is of further significance since it has decided gender implications. This paper seeks to redress this relative …

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Self as social practice: rewriting the feminine in qualitative organizational research

Linstead, Alison - York Management School, University of York - 2005

whilst suppressing the voice of the researcher. Martin’s (2002) injunction to repair research accounts by ‘letting the “I … corporeally grounded and gendered. From this discussion, three possible approaches to gender are considered: the discursive …

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Residential mobility and migration of the separated

Peteke, Feijten; Ham, Maarten van - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 21, pp. 623-654

Separation is known to have a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, mainly because a decrease in resources causes (temporary) downward moves on the housing ladder. Little is known about the geographies of the residential mobility behaviour of the separated. Applying a...

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