Course books play a crucial role in educational process and are believed to be the pivotal ingredient of language teaching. Every new textbook needs to be analyzed in order to reach its best. Hence this study aims to analyze three Iranian English course books to reveal how various cultures are shown via the course books characters’ race, nationality, gender, and intercultural communications. Th...

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health funded 14 R01 grants to study causal factors that promote and support women's biomedical careers. The Research Partnership on Women in Biomedical Careers, a multi-institutional collaboration of the investigators, is one product of this initiative.A comprehensive framework is needed to address change at many levels-department, institution, academic comm...

Beginning with a case vignette, a discussion follows of the reformulation of theories of gender development taking into consideration the recent upsurge of gender nonconforming and transgender youth presenting for gender services and also in the culture at large. The three predominant models of pediatric gender care are reviewed and critiqued, along with a presentation of the recently developed...

Language and culture are now deemed to be co-constitutive; hence English language teaching (ELT) textbooks should incorporate cultural aspects and promote intercultural competence. However, careful decisions should be made as regards to the cultural content of materials and the ways in which culture is represented. This study was an attempt to deconstruct the patterns of cultural representation...

This paper reports on a behavioral study that explores the role of culture and gender in the recognition of emotional speech in an under investigated cultural context (a collectivist society: i.e., Iran). Participants were asked to recognize the emotional prosody of a set of validated emotional vocal portrayals (including the five basic emotions). Findings of the experiment were then comp...

My paper tries to see if there are any economic behavioral differences between EU and Non-EU citizens under the influence of regional culture and gender, in a one-shot version of trust game played by students of different nationalities at Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy. During twenty-four experimental sessions participants, both senders and receivers, have not discriminated against wh...

This field study examined how customer-employee interactions are affected by the congruency between an employee's gender and perceived image of consumption context in one most equal cultures world (Scandinavia). Mystery shoppers had a service encounter with employee across set physical commercial settings that were classified according to their image. The mystery noted employee, provided evalua...

1. Sustainable Development Concept: Russian Realities 1.1 Specific Features of Women’s Position 1.2 Women’s Position as an Indicator of Crisis of Patriarchal Culture 2. Gender Grounds for the Development of World Culture 3. Specific Features of Russia 4. Expectations and Prospects 4.1 Democratization through “Feminization” 4.2 Family and Gender Policy 4.3 Russia as a Multinational State 5. Prac...

Citation: Grossard C, Chaby L, Hun S, Pellerin H, Bourgeois J, Dapogny A, Ding H, Serret S, Foulon P, Chetouani M, Chen L, Bailly K, Grynszpan O and Cohen D (2018) Children Facial Expression Production: Influence of Age, Gender, Emotion Subtype, Elicitation Condition and Culture. Front. Psychol. 9:446. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00446 Children Facial Expression Production: Influence of Age, Gender...

Global outsourcing increases the complexity of managing IT projects. Gender adds another level of difficulty when managing IT projects. Understanding country and gender -level differences may improve chances for success. This paper provides opportunities to better understand underlying country and gender differences of Indian IT workers. We used Hofstede’s value surveys module to analyse gender...