Essays about: "role of women in science"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 77 essays containing the words role of women in science.

  1. 16. Street-Level Bureaucrats in Homa Bay County, Kenya – A bottom-up implementation analysis of the policies on malaria and gender inequalities

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Vindar Fritzell; [2019]
    Keywords : Community health volunteers; Street-level bureaucrats; Kenya; Policy implementation; Gender; Malaria in Pregnancy; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The fight against malaria in Kenya is tightly connected to gender inequalities. The traditional gender roles in some households create exposure patterns that affect the most vulnerable groups: pregnant women and children. READ MORE

  3. 17. Possibilities and Challenges for Female PhD Students in Tanzania : A field study covering current conditions for Tanzanian women undertaking their PhD degree at the Department of Mathematics, University of Dar es Salaam

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Fanny Norén; Hanne Wallengren; [2019]
    Keywords : Gender equality and equity; Women in science; Social role theory; Tanzania; University of Dar es Salaam;

    Abstract : At the largest university in Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), the gender distribution is unequal. At the University’s Department of Mathematics (DoM), the number of women ranges between 20-30 %. READ MORE

  4. 18. Beyond Bullets and Ballots : A theoretical inquiry on sexualised election violence

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Miriam van Baalen; [2019]
    Keywords : Sexual violence; election-related violence; wartime; peacetime; women; gender and politics;

    Abstract : How can we understand sexual violence in electoral conflict? This study probes into this question through critically examining, structuring and assessing the status of election-related violence literature. Scholars within the interdisciplinary field that explores conflict-related sexual violence have given rise to important debates and insights on the dynamics and drivers of the prevalence of sexual violence in war, yet, such developments have remained absent in understandings of election-related violence. READ MORE

  5. 19. Vision and visibility of women in technoscience : On the participation of women in the social imaginary of technoscience and popular media

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yvonne Margaret Parrey; [2019]
    Keywords : Woman question in science; the science question in feminism; technoscience; STEM; visibility; faceicity; affect; the gaze; BBC; European Commission; Science it’s a girl thing!; visagéité;

    Abstract : After situating my interest in issues of women’s participation in technoscience, starting withmy experiences in the 1970s, this thesis turns to consider women’s visibility in more recenttechnoscience, in the light of European Commission figures indicating a slower progressionfor women into the more prestigious positions in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineeringand Mathematics) than the Commission had hoped.Two media case studies are presented focusing on the visibility of women in the EuropeanUnion (including the United Kingdom). READ MORE

  6. 20. Ontological (In)Security and Gender - Anti-Feminism and Anti-Genderism in German Right-Wing Populism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Fabienne Wehrle; [2019]
    Keywords : anti-feminism; anti-genderism; right-wing populism; ontological security theory; frame analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Many of the right-wing populist forces currently on the rise across the world have anti-feminist and anti-genderist agendas and narratives. This thesis investigates such narratives from an ontological security perspective by conducting a frame analysis. READ MORE