Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...

Institutional analysis that aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty needs to focus first of all on the ways in which institutions influence poverty and the livelihoods of the poor. Therefore the starting point has to be poor people themselves. This means understanding their diversity and the different characteristics of people who are affected by poverty and experience it in differ...

In this study, no empirical evidence was found for the notion that most patients recover memories of childhood sexual abuse because their therapist had suggested to them that they were abused as children. Instead, our data seem to suggest that memory recovery is a spontaneous phenomenon, triggered by abuse-related stimuli. The issue of traumatic versus ordinary memories was investigated by comp...

The gender question in computer science is often presented as: “Why are there sofew women in computer science and what can be done about that?” This questionusually focuses on women. Sometimes ‘men’ or ‘gender’ enter the discussions.However, it is not common that the second part of the sentence computer scienceis considered. The papers in this thesis challenge, in different ways...

Since the establishment of computer science courses within the last 30-40 years both female enrollment and its development differ strongly between various continents, countries, cultures, religions and languages. It is very remarkable that female participation is extremely low in German (and Dutch) speaking countries, in Scandinavian countries and Great Britain, but that this is not the case to...

The heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. There is the women's (outdoor) and the men's (indoor) heptathlon. In this paper, the women's heptathlon rules that are the same as the men's decathlon rules will be analyzed. The heptathlon is a women's sporting event, designed to be the female counterpart for the men's decathlon. Like other combined ...

Previous research has indicated that a light tactile contact is associated with a positive response towards the person who is touching. The effect of touch on courtship was investigated in this experiment, which was conducted in a field setting. A female confederate either slightly touched or did not touch a man in a bar when asking him for some help. It was found that men who were touched show...

This study examined Taiwanese female and male police officers’ perceptions of handling domestic violence. Specifically, it assessed officers’ attitudes toward whether female officers, male officers, or a combination of female and male officers are more suited for handling cases of battered women, offenders, and domestic violence overall. Survey data were collected from 96 female and 156 male of...