Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

abstract background: well-being is a subjective concept and means different things to various people. most of the research investigating the experience has concentrated on its problematic and pathological aspects. the aim of this research was to enhance the understanding of the contextual meaning of well-being based on personal life experiences of the participants. this will be of help to exper...

introduction: the old age is one of the vulnerable classes of people in every society. the most important issue concerning the improvement of health and quality of life of the old age deals with preservation of a high degree of their independence in physical activities and continuation of an active life. the present research aimed at comparing the effect of two types of physical activity in wat...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...

Institutional analysis that aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty needs to focus first of all on the ways in which institutions influence poverty and the livelihoods of the poor. Therefore the starting point has to be poor people themselves. This means understanding their diversity and the different characteristics of people who are affected by poverty and experience it in differ...

a survey of effective factors on mental health   of employed women in urmia     moghadam tabrizi f [1]     abstract:   introduction: healith, according to definition of who, is a condition of complete physical, mental, and social health. mental health may be defined as capability, in becoming coordinated with others, improving the environment, and solving the conflicts. who reported that 1% of ...

conclusions the findings indicated that society associates reproductive health issues with sexual relations, which in turn shapes the stigma and places limitations on unmarried women for using reproductive health services. thus, while reproductive health services are planned and provided to unmarried women, strategies are demanded for overcoming this stigma. objectives this paper explores the c...