The coexistence of the government sector, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and private sector provides a natural setting to examine the impact of economic reform in Vietnam on gender earning differentials. The three sectors reflect different degrees of influence of the Socialist ideology, with the private sector most liberalised. Have women fared better during the transition into a market econom...

The actual content of games is an understudied area in social scientific research about digital interactive games (DIGs). This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of game content, in particular with respect to the portrayal of men, women, and people of different ethnic origin. Earlier studies by Provenzo [14], Gailey [8], and Dietz [6] concluded that games were dominated by stereotypi...

This study analyze the portrayal of mothers who kill children as folk devil. The theory devil by Stanley Cohen and Erving Goffman’s theories on framing are used to determine deviant images that created news using various means framing. in were depicted having inhuman characters, psychological problems, a weak nature for dealing with external thus, they portrayed devils. is based use kinds eleme...

Estrogen, is involved in much of the life women lives, having great importance in many functions of the female body including the definition of secondary sexual characters, but also has been linked as protective factor regard to catastrophic events such as cerebral aneurysms, probably related to estrogen deficiency and described high incidence in menopausal women. It is known the effects of est...

A content analysis of rap music videos aired on BET, MTV, and VH1 examined the occurrence of controversial themes, gender differences, and skin tone distortion. The results of this study found that current rap music videos have placed an emphasis on themes of materialism and misogyny. Additionally, men and women in the videos differ in their portrayal of these themes. Specifically, female chara...

OBJECTIVE The true prevalence of smoking among characters portrayed in the movies is unknown. This study examines this prevalence objectively. DESIGN The top 10 movies on the weekly box office charts were reviewed. Whether or not the top five characters in these movies smoked, was documented. It was determined prior to the start of the study that 300 male characters and 300 female characters ...

of Burt-White and Armstrong,1 however, would appear to call into question the validity of the conclusions offered by previous observers. Burt-White and Armstrong examined the cervical flora in 5 5 pregnant women ; in 40 per cent, of these cases streptococci of different types were isolated, but in only one did the strain present the characters of the streptococcus pyogenes, the common cause of ...

Present study was conducted in order to determine the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women attending Government Mian Munshi Teaching Hospital, Lahore. For this, one hundred pregnant females were selected randomly; relevant data was collected by interviewing and filling a questionnaire especially designed to record various socio-demographic characters of patients and their dietary history. ...

This article builds upon Laura Mulvey’s idea of the Male Gaze to conduct a feminist reading video game series Batman: Arkham (2009-2015). It does so by using Bechdel Test analyze depiction major female characters appearing in series. The investigates why portrayal women games is always problematic and how franchise becomes yet another transmedia text that fails showing its accurately. textual a...