نتایج جستجو برای: male participation

تعداد نتایج: 418912  

2015
Sumit Agarwal Wenlan Qian

We study the participation of women in golf, a predominately male social activity, and its influence on their likelihood of serving on a board of directors. Exploiting a novel dataset of all golf games in Singapore, we find that woman golfers enjoy a 54% higher likelihood of serving on a board relative to male golfers. A woman’s probability of serving on the board in a large firm or in a predom...

Journal: :Social security bulletin 2000
G R Springstead T M Wilson

New voluntary individual savings accounts have been proposed by some as a part of, or in addition to, Social Security. The success of these proposals would depend greatly on how many workers participate. This paper compares participation rates in three existing voluntary individual account-type plans--Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s, and the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)--to ...

Journal: :African journal of reproductive health 2014
Steve M Mphonda Nora E Rosenberg Esmie Kamanga Innocent Mofolo Gertrude Mwale Edson Boa Mwawi Mwale Francis Martinson Irving Hoffman Mina C Hosseinipour

In sub-Saharan Africa, although male involvement in antenatal care is associated with positive outcomes for HIV-infected women and their infants, men rarely accompany female partners. We implemented a project to increase the number of male partners attending an antenatal clinic at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. We evaluated changes in the proportion of women who came with a partner over t...

Background: Relationships are the foundation of human social life. If this relationship is well established in academic environments, educational objectives are more conveniently obtained. The aim of this studyDetermining factors affecting student- professor relationship in performing educational and learning activities from the perspective of male and female  apprentices, interns and Assistant...

Journal: :AIDS care 2016
Sarah Bauerle Bass Caitlin Wolak Judith Greener Ellen Tedaldi Aasit Nanavati Katey Ruppert Thomas F Gordon

Minority participation in HIV clinical trials research is critical to understanding the impact of medications or behavioral interventions, but little is known about gender differences in perceptions of participation. We surveyed 50 minority HIV+ patients from an urban clinic to assess perceived risks/benefits of clinical trial research participation and used innovative marketing methods to anal...

2014
Larissa Jennings Muzi Na Megan Cherewick Michelle Hindin Britta Mullany Saifuddin Ahmed

BACKGROUND Increasing women's status and male involvement are important strategies in reducing preventable maternal morbidity and mortality. While efforts to both empower women and engage men in maternal health care-seeking can work synergistically, in practice they may result in opposing processes and outcomes. This study examines whether a woman's empowerment status, in sum and across economi...

2012
Boshishi K.F. Mohlala Simon Gregson Marie-Claude Boily

We used qualitative methods to assess pregnant women and men's attitudes, feelings, beliefs, experiences and reactions to male partners' involvement in antenatal clinic (ANC) in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. The aims of these studies were to determine barriers to male partners' attendance of ANC with their pregnant female partners and to identify possible strategies to overcome these ba...

2017
Chiehfeng Chen Liang-Ting Tsai Ching-Feng Lin Chun-Ching Huang Yao-Tsung Chang Ruey-Yu Chen Shu-Yu Lyu

OBJECTIVES Recreational sports are important leisure activities. However, most studies investigating barrier factors and motivation for participation in recreational sports have been limited to specific areas (e.g., a city or school) or demographic groups (e.g., adolescents). Therefore, this study set out to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the behavioral and socioeconomic factors inf...

2017
Valerie L. Flax Jennifer Yourkavitch Elialilia S. Okello John Kadzandira Anne Ruhweza Katahoire Alister C. Munthali

The role of gender in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) participation under Option B+ has not been adequately studied, but it is critical for reducing losses to follow-up. This study used qualitative methods to examine the interplay of gender and individual, interpersonal, health system, and community factors that contribute to PMTCT participation in Malawi and Uganda. We condu...

Journal: :Annals of the rheumatic diseases 2011
Aileen M Davis Marvilyn P Palaganas Elizabeth M Badley Dafna D Gladman Robert D Inman Monique A Gignac

OBJECTIVES People with spondyloarthritis (SpA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have identified the importance of understanding how their disease and its treatment impacts on their social roles. This requires a reliable and valid standardised measure, and this study evaluates these measurement properties of the Social Role Participation Questionnaire (SRPQ). METHODS ...

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