Speaking for Herself: Changing Gender Roles in Survey Response

Changing Gender Roles and Economies in Taimyr

This article is an inquiry into the extent to which, and how, roles of men and women in indigenous communities in north-central Siberia have changed along with the changing economic and political context from the 1917 Communist Revolution to the post-Soviet era. The starting point for this investigation is archived data from the 1926/27 Polar Census of Siberia. Fieldwork conducted in the region...

Changing Gender Stereotypes in Iran

Abstract In recent decades, because of the vast socio-cultural changes which occurred in Iran, Iranian women have experienced new values and identities and they have achieved more advanced education and consciousness, so that they oppose the gender stereotypes which attribute inferior characteristics to women and cause inequalities and limitations in their everyday life. Although gender stereo...

survey of gender and social roles in children’s journals

children develop their vocabulary through media special book and journals and lrarn social roles and relationships. the way men’s and women’s social roles are presented in journals stories has a great significance. the present study aim is to identify and compare social roles and status of men and women in children’s stories in journals. in this paper, men and women are compared regarding perso...

Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality: Relationships to changing gender roles and other societal trends

This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor vehicle accidents mortality, and occupational accidents mortality. However, for many types of acciden...

Family and Gender Roles: How Attitudes Are Changing