Essays about: "women success"

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  1. 6. The Effect of Microfinance on Women’s Empowerment in Ghana: A Meta-Regression Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Giulia Martini; [2023]
    Keywords : Ghana; Microfinance; Women Empowerment; Gender; Feminist Theory; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Microcredit is often regarded as the best tool for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment. The literature agrees that microcredit impacts positively different aspects of women’s lives. However, there are some aspects, including patriarchal norms and culture, that may obstacle to the success of those programs. READ MORE

  3. 7. Feminist Foreign Policy: Is Switzerland’s foreign policy a secretly feminist foreign policy?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Philipp Widmer; [2023]
    Keywords : International Relations; Global Politics; Foreign Policy; Feminism; Feminist Foreign Policy; Gender; Gender Equality; Women’s Rights; Switzerland; Qualitative Content Analysis;

    Abstract : Recently, a new IR movement called Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) has become more influential and achieved certain success when states like Sweden, Canada and France adopted these theories. This study will analyse Switzerland’s foreign policy to understand to what extent it is a FFP. READ MORE

  4. 8. Gender stereotypes and fundraising: A qualitative study on female entrepreneur's experience of raising external capital in the Swedish market

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Carolina Westin; Anousha Parvaneh; [2022]
    Keywords : Female entrepreneurship; Diversity; Equity fundraising; Gender stereotypes;

    Abstract : More capital than ever is invested in Swedish tech startups, but only 1% of the capital goes to female-founded companies. The same trend is observed on the global level. READ MORE

  5. 9. Female Fans in Formula 1 : A Qualitative Study of Spanish Female Fans’ Behaviours, Attitudes, and Motivations towards F1 and its Consumption through Twitter

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Anne Llamas Mayoral; [2022]
    Keywords : Formula 1; Twitter; Spain; female fans; participatory culture; fan community; postmodern feminism;

    Abstract : Sports fandoms, historically, have been categorized as a male domain, even in academic studies. Therefore, as Formula 1 has been a sport with a remarkable increase in digital engagement and women are one of their main target audiences, I study Spanish F1 female fans’ behaviours, attitudes, and motivations towards F1 and Twitter as part of their fan experience. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Culture of Sexual Violence at Festivals: Through the Eyes of Festival Attendees

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Fanney Rún Jónsdóttir; [2022]
    Keywords : Collective effervescence; carnival; liminality; sexually violent effervescence; festivals; sexual violence; culture; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines sexual violence at festivals based on eleven interviews with people that have been to two popular festivals in Iceland, Eistnaflug, and Þjóðhátíð. The thesis seeks answers to three research questions; How are festivals characterized by festival attendees? How do festival attendees explain sexual violence at festivals? What preventive methods at festivals have festival attendees noticed, and what kind of prevention do they think would work? To be able to give concrete answers to those questions, the thesis relies upon the theoretical background of the carnival, liminality, collective effervescence, sexually violent effervescence, and social network theory. READ MORE