Essays about: "women and household"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 233 essays containing the words women and household.
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16. Challenges in women's access to higher education in Pakistan
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: Women in Pakistan face many obstacles, challenges, and gender stereotypes in their educational journey. Therefore, the goal of this research is threefold: to examine the factors that female HE students identify as obstacles and hurdles they have had to overcome to establish themselves in HE; to examine what enables some women to overcome them and successfully establish themselves as HE students; and last to address what gender stereotypes female students in HE have encountered in their educational journey and how they have dealt with them. READ MORE
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17. The role of household environment in omnivores transition to plant-based diet with a focus on gender as a center of interest
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : For many years, increased meat consumption and its impact on the environment have been a focus of research. Likewise, gender has often been studied as one of the major barriers towards reducing meat consumption, which has often been associated with masculine characteristics. READ MORE
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18. An Exploration of CSR Perceptions and Attitudes of Male and Female Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: A comparison
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as become an important consideration in modern business management and its relevance to the performance of business firms. Literature has argued that male and females have different orientations towards CSR, but most of the previous studies are conducted for large corporations and in more developed countries, while small firms and less developed countries like Pakistan have received little attention for empirical investigation to understand gender differences pertaining to CSR orientation of entrepreneurs. READ MORE
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19. Witch hunts and the intersections of gender, age and class : A feminist analysis on the Western European witch hunts in the 16th and 17th century.
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : Aim: The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the effects of gender, age, and class in witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Western Europe from a feminist perspective. It also aims to understand the perception of these witch hunts in our present society. It centers poor, old, women who were accused of witchcraft. READ MORE
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20. The Impact of Covid-19 on Households' Income : Empirical Evidence from Sweden
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : This thesis contributes to the emerging literature on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on individuals’ labour market outcomes by investigating the effects on households’ income in the Swedish labour market. Using panel data for Sweden’s municipalities over the period 2011-2020, a difference-in-difference design is constructed to examine how the pandemic has affected average yearly disposable income for all households and how the effects are distributed across different household compositions and age groups. READ MORE
