Background A cross-national comparison of Belgian and Dutch childbearing women allows us to gain insight into the relative importance of pain acceptance and personal control in pain relief in 2 maternity care models. Although Belgium and the Netherlands are neighbouring countries sharing the same language, political system and geography, they are characterised by a different organisation of hea...

By investigating the implications of gendered property and labour relations in agriculture for socio-economic transformation, this article extends development theories contributes to feminist analysis unpaid family labour. Drawing on case Turkey, it demonstrates that patterns limit women’s mobility, access education, paid employment non-agricultural sectors. Using qualitative quantitative metho...

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BACKGROUND Policy makers and health professionals are progressively using evidence-based rationale to guide their decisions. There has long been controversy regarding which maternal position is more appropriate during the first stage of labor. This problem has been examined often and repeatedly and the optimal recommendation remains unclear. METHODS This is a systematic review of the effect o...

Sociologists are generally in agreement that the closing decades of the twentieth century involved striking changes in the landscape against which British young people grew up. Transformations in education and the labour market had the potential to dramatically alter and re-shape patterns of social inequality. This thesis addresses the importance of family effects upon educational attainment, e...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Abstract Despite Sweden’s national gender-neutral family and social policies, local differences in gender contracts exist have been related to the structure of labour market cultural traditions. Existing studies are outdated used relatively large administratively defined areas, which may lead several measurement interpretation errors. This paper examines geographical variation present-day Swede...