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Waking Up The Dissident: Transforming Lives (And Society) With Feminist Counseling, Donna F. Johnson
Waking Up The Dissident: Transforming Lives (And Society) With Feminist Counseling, Donna F. Johnson
Journal of International Women's Studies
When I was a student in the 70’s I took a year off to travel the world with a friend. Despite taking every precaution, I was sexually assaulted twice. The incidents changed the course of my life. I completed my studies and began working in a refuge for battered women. There I bore witness, not only to unimaginable cruelty, but to widespread institutional indifference to women’s suffering. Decades later, police, judicial and child welfare responses remain inadequate in Canada (as everywhere), and mental health practitioners continue to routinely blame and pathologize women. As a counselor, first at the shelter, later …
“When A Mother Is Employed, Her Children Suffer”: A Quantitative Analysis Of Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Women’S Employment And Gender Roles In Rwanda, Nadine Mumporeze
“When A Mother Is Employed, Her Children Suffer”: A Quantitative Analysis Of Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Women’S Employment And Gender Roles In Rwanda, Nadine Mumporeze
Journal of International Women's Studies
Socialist feminist theory has assumed that patriarchy and capitalism are the main sources of women's limited roles and related attitudes in society. Informed by this theory and using the data from the World Values Survey wave six, this study aimed at analysing the factors influencing individuals’ attitudes towards women’s employment and gender roles in Rwandan society. A hierarchical multiple regression modelling method was used to analyse data through R and SPSS statistics programs. The main findings yielded by three research models show that Rwandans express ambivalent attitudes toward women’s work and gender roles, comprising both traditional and non-traditional attitudes. Women, …