FARMER-DRIVEN RESEARCH ON VILLAGE CHICKEN PRODUCTION IN SANYATI, ZIMBABWE. Studies on village chicken production in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, were initiated in 1998. The objective was, in cooperation with the farmers, to find means to improve chicken production by decreasing mortality and increasing growth. The aim is that more chickens should reach slaughter weight. Thus, household consumption and in...

More than half the states have laws requiring courts to consider domestic violence when making child custody and visitation awards. These standards are an improvement over the view that violence between parents is irrelevant to child custody and visitation, but they still leave a great deal of discretion to the court. Judicial bias and misconceptions about domestic violence and battered women m...

Women are dramatically underrepresented in computer science at all levels in academia and account for just 15% of tenure-track faculty. Understanding the causes of this gender imbalance would inform both policies intended to rectify it and employment decisions by departments and individuals. Progress in this direction, however, is complicated by the complexity and decentralized nature of facult...

This article demonstrates how same-sex male battering challenges contemporary feminist domestic violence theory. The author shows current theory to be heterosexist and therefore insufficient to explain the phenomenon of battering among gay/bisexual men. Domestic violence theories that integrate a sociopolitical and a psychological analysis of battering are presented as more inclusive of same-se...

There is a dearth of research on battered Filipino women's stay or leave decision-making process. The present study interviewed 40 battered women in the Philippines to explore factors associated with their decisions to stay or leave their husbands or partners. Results revealed that (a) battered women's decision to stay was associated with intrapersonal and interpersonal factors such as personal...

―Women must live up to collective expectations of what makes a leader, while at the same time remaining true to certain gender expectations ―Over the centuries, femininity has been stereotyped as dependent, submissive and conforming, and hence women have been seen as lacking in leadership qualities ....The male bias is reflected in the false conception of leadership as mere command or control. ...

Findings from a study comparing partner abuse in African American women suicide attempters (n = 148) and nonattempters (n = 137) revealed higher rates of physical and nonphysical partner abuse among attempters than their demographically similar nonsuicidal counterparts. The partner abuse--suicidal behavior link was mediated by psychological distress, hopelessness, and drug use and moderated by ...

1. Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem and effective interventions are needed. 2. Interventions should be comprehensive and culturally sensitive in order to address the needs of abused women depending on their cultural backgrounds, their abuse histories, and how severely they are impacted. 3. Providing interventions to empower abused women enables them to regain control...

objective: to evaluate the increased rate of cesarean section in recent decades and natural desire of women probably due to social, economic& cultural issues in our country. while that in many cases, vaginal delivery can be replaced by unnecessary cesarean. in the absence of need the trend of cesarean section has implications for both future healthy populations and the equitable distribution of...

this study tries to show how gender as a discourse construction has been formed since decades before the islamic revolution in imam khomeini’s words differently from then language system capacity, power and residence relations embodied in the traditional discourses, pre-revolution modernization period, in a context of political and social events and how it has stabilized or transformed the cust...