Our voice on gender discrimination: adolescent girls

How Chinese adolescent girls perceive gender roles: A psychographic study

Canadian Chinese adolescent girls’ gender roles and identities

An autovideography approach was used to investigate the gender role and identity perceptions of ten adolescent Chinese girls in Vancouver. They were asked to take 20 photos in a week from the media that could illustrate ‘‘what women should or should not be and what women should or should not do’’. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted discussing their choices. Six dominant themes em...

Gender-role conflict and suicidal behaviour in adolescent girls.

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether gender-role conflict influenced the suicidal behaviour of adolescent girls. METHOD We designed a checklist and used it to perform a chart review. RESULTS Gender-role conflict was associated with suicidal behaviour in 26.79% of the adolescent girls, and 2.68% of the adolescent boys, that we studied. CONCLUSIONS Gender-role conflict plays an important r...

CMAJ at 100: our voice, our future.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, January 11, 2011, 183(1) 15 As society and health care have evolved, so too has CMAJ. Indeed, the journal is a reflection of the society in which it is firmly rooted. With its 100-year history and the many successes highlighted by CMA President Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, CMAJ is ready to move into its second century. CMAJ has sought to disse...

Problems of Adolescent Girls

to a weekly periodical during 1953-1955 and used the vivid material to highlight their problems. Self-selected material, it is true, because they wrote voluntarily, but instead of revealing irresponsible rebels, the main impression is one of uncertainty and a longing to be accepted both socially and in the family. Many mothers and fathers must be surprised to find that 74% express a wish to sha...