The aim and scope of this study are to explore strategies for the encouragement participative management at secondary schools in patriarchal South Africa. adopted positivism paradigm empirical investigation, with use questionnaires as data collection instrument. school principals were target population. A total 200 public high selected across King Cetshwayo district KwaZulu-Natal province sampl...

Since the start of China’s one-child only policy in 1979, women’s bodies have been the site of a battleground between national motives, patriarchal family goals and/or traditions, and individual women’s desires. The goal of controlling births by the state according to Greenhalgh is, “...to bring the production of human beings in line with the production of material goods” (Greenhalgh 1994:6). T...

Women contribute significantly to the economy and the labor market through their paid and unpaid work in the public and private sector. The increased recognition of women’s important contribution to the global economy through their productive and reproductive roles, and the recognition of their marginalization have led to a consensus among all stakeholders about the importance and need to bring...

based on existing literature social capital is defined as a set of norms and rules and informal networks that provide association, trust and collective action to obtain the public good. the empowerment projects of world bank that has been implemented in many third world countries in the late 1980s followed by a non-reductionist non- physical approach integration of cultural and socio- economic ...

This paper offers a postcolonial feminist reading of John 7:53-8:11, which focuses on the imperialistic background behind text. The issue is that violence experienced by women in text not solely influenced patriarchal culture. aim this to analyze more deeply, particularly influence Roman Empire during time. method used hermeneutics developed Musa W. Dube. new perspective offered are deserving v...

13 Graham-Kevan’s paper fully documents overwhelming evidence that the “patriarchal 14 dominance” theory of partner violence (PV from here on) explains only a small part of PV. 15 Moreover, more such evidence is rapidly emerging. To take just one recent example, 16 analyses of data from 32 nations in the International Dating Violence Study (Straus 2006; 17 Straus and International Dating Violen...

If the scholarly principle of her literary "vocation", of her emotional "choices" and even of her relation to her own status as a woman offered to us by Toril Moi have but little chance of appearing as Simone de Beauvoir, this is because she is separated from this by the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to whom she delegated, in a way, her capacity to do philosophy... There is not a better exampl...

— This paper compares the early labor market experience of mature and young cohorts of women in Bogot a and Caracas. The cross-country, cross-cohort comparisons demonstrate the importance of both rising women’s human capital and family regimes to women’s labor market behavior. While divorce was a central stimulus of women’s work in both contexts, the more stable, patriarchal family regime in Bo...

The present paper analyses Romanian men's masculinities via a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 380 online personal advertisements posted by men. The case of Romania is particularly interesting for understanding gender relations, since the country has recently experienced the impact of (post-) communisim, democratization, and resurging traditionalism. Romanian men's advertisements often ...

This is the first book on this subject in any language. This book consists of seven articles which describe and analyze images of Chinese women in a variety of genres, including folklore, poetry, fiction and drama, from early times to the present, in the works of both male and female writers. One of the main themes of this work is diversity; women in Chinese literature have a thousand faces and...