Essays about: "assigned gender roles"

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  1. 1. Family influence on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för management (MAN)

    Author : Alina Kanonchyk; Zahra Mirza; [2023]
    Keywords : Women entrepreneurship; gender; family; Pakistan; entrepreneurship;

    Abstract : This qualitative study explores factors within families that influence women entrepreneurs of Pakistan. Pakistan is chosen as the key research area as where the corporate environment as well as the domestic sphere, they belong to, represent the intricate interaction of social, cultural, traditional, and religious components, especially considering the characteristics of the existing patriarchal system. READ MORE

  3. 2. womens role development in the big four audit firms

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : ibraahim Abiib; Vasiliy Khan; [2022]
    Keywords : Auditing; Big 4; Institutional Theory; Role Theory; Social Role Theory; Images; Gender;

    Abstract : Background: In recent decades about as many women as men have been recruited to the auditing industry. On the other hand, it seems difficult for women to reach higher positions and they are underrepresented in certain ways. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture: Lessons from Farming Communities in Ejisu Municipality, Ghana

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Eunice Adwoa Sarpong; [2021]
    Keywords : Ejisu; gender dimensions; agriculture; climate change; Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan NAP Processes;

    Abstract : Climate change poses a threat to agriculture. Ghana’s agriculture is mainly dependent on rainfall, this makes subsistence farmers majority of whom are women more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. That said, the impacts of climate change are felt differently by men and women due to their social assigned roles and responsibilities. READ MORE

  5. 4. At War with an Invisible Enemy : A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Covid-19 Pandemic Narrative

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Molly Jerlström; [2021]
    Keywords : Feminist Security Studies; Covid-19; Narrative Analysis; Gender; Security;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to investigate the narrative created around the covid-19 virus as a security threat during the first months of the pandemic. Speeches made by three political leaders, namely Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel, held in March 2020 are analysed in depth using a feminist narrative framework. READ MORE

  6. 5. Narrative and Gender: Similarities and differences in written narratives produced from same- and opposite-gender perspective in Modern Greek

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Grekiska (nygrekiska)

    Author : Lambrini Kokkali; [2020]
    Keywords : discourse analysis; gender representation; males; females; Greek language; Greek society; narrative text; picture-story; stereotypes; story-grammars; storytelling; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narrative and gender are both notions closely connected to culture and society. Narrative, on the one hand, is not just the art of telling stories, it carries deeper meanings, evokes feelings, and even affects our actions and interactions with one another. READ MORE