An ongoing investigation into the declining participation of women in IT education and professional level work has recently focused on professional women’s perceptions of the IT industry. This paper presents some of the findings from a discourse analysis of interviews with thirty-two female and two male IT professionals. The analysis identified a distinctive characteristic of the women’s discou...

Prior research shows that individual perceptions of victims play an integral role in the societal response to domestic violence, as well as victims’ responses to their own victimization. However, little research has specifically examined individual perceptions of domestic violence victims who remain in abusive relationships. This study begins to fill the void in the literature by examining coll...

Despite the fact that women constitute about half (46.6%) of the United States workforce, the proportion of women in computer science and information technology (CSIT) careers has been declining. From a high of 40% in 1986, it dropped to 29% in 1996, and further declined to about 20% in 2004 according to the Information Technology Association of America (Ramsey and McCorduck, 2005). Although ou...

BACKGROUND Today, domestic violence against women is a growing epidemic that can be observed in many countries. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to determine the types of domestic violence against women who were referred to the Legal Medical Organization of Iran in Urmia, Iran in 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS The descriptive survey included demographic information, abuse screening, and i...

The Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health and Well-Being was used as the theoretical base for the development of several spiritual well-being questionnaires, with progressive fine-tuning leading to the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM). SHALOM comprises 20 items with five items reflecting the quality of relationships of each person with themselves, other people, the enviro...

N C Med J. November/December 2010, Volume 71, Number 6 In addition to supporting these individual-focused strategies, promising evidence supports an approach that targets sexual assault bystanders, which is an innovative intervention combining individualand community-level change strategies [8]. This approach leverages the fact that, although most people will be neither victim nor perpetrator o...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Partner violence types Gender symmetry Partner violence mental outcomes Gender differences in partner violence Gender differences in depression Gender theory for partner violence Studies show that, in violent relationships, both partners suffer from higher levels of depression than in non-violent relationships. Most of these studies were based on samples of batte...

This paper proposes methods to create educational Virtual Environments for users with no computer and reading skills. The objective is to outline issues that are critical for the success of an educational Virtual Environment: user interface, navigation, interaction and environment design. We propose solutions to improve the usability and visual quality of environments. Two example environments ...

Exotic tales and dramatic details about Muslim women’s views of Bosnian society are uncommon. In fact, few Muslim women in Bosnia are overtly Islamic in appearance or action. Rather, they blend into a secularized society in which Islamic heritage provides traditions and values, not dogma. Despite this assimilation, 12 Bosnian women relate 3 different but connected features of their lives: the e...

The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of a...