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Eating Burnt Toast: The Lived Experiences Of Female Breadwinners In South Africa, Bianca Rochelle Parry, Puleng Segalo

Journal of International Women's Studies

In South African society, many women have overcome traditional notions of gender by becoming primary breadwinners in their homes and providing primary financial support for their families. Employing a Phenomenological viewpoint, this paper contextualises the individual lived experiences of South African female breadwinners, utilising data collected from ten female breadwinners from the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces respectively using in-depth, semi structured interviews. Taking into consideration their intersectional experiences of gender, race, as well as cultural, traditional and patriarchal societal pressures, the study represents voices that have for a long time been silenced and marginalised, to understand how these women make …

Lived Experiences And Consequences Of Unemployment On Women: An Empirical Study Of Unemployed Young Women In Mahalapye, Botswana, Kabo Diraditsile, Mosetsanagape Alice Ontetse

Journal of International Women's Studies

Studies have shown that the experience and consequences of unemployment affect people differently depending on, for example, age and gender. The purpose of the present study was to identify factors that contribute to unemployment among young women aged 20-35 in Mahalapye village, investigate the effects of being unemployed, determine sources of support available to unemployed young women, and identify the gaps in state assistance in this regard. The study utilized a survey research method and adopted a descriptive research design. Cluster sampling was used with the sample size being one hundred (100) unemployed young women in Mahalapye. A face-to-face questionnaire …

Contextualising African Women’S Empowerment In Agriculture: Challenges From Climate Change And Mineral Extraction Perspectives, Lere Amusan, Oluwole Olutola

Journal of International Women's Studies

Most cultures in Africa view women’s role as subordinate to that of men. The patriarchal nature of human and social systems that are more or less an enduring feature of a typical African society, dictates that women are inferior and less powerful when compared to their male counterpart. Hence, their role should naturally be of a domestic calling. In addition to being relegated to the background of domestic affairs, most women function as food producers, at least, at the subsistence level. These dual roles are mostly unpaid, under-valued and, therefore, hardly accounted for in monetary terms. Rather than being beneficiaries …

Domestic Violence Against Women In Ghana: The Attitudes Of Men Toward Wife-Beating, Ellen Mabel Osei-Tutu, Ernest Ampadu

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study examines the issue of domestic violence against women; specifically, men’s attitudes toward wife beating. The data used was obtained from the 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). The results presented in this study come from a total 3,052 males from across all the 10 regions in Ghana. It is interesting to note that, although majority of the participants do not endorse wife beating, there was a significant number of these men who thought wife beating was justified for various reasons. That is, the attitude of men toward wife beating is complex to explain as the participants had divergent …

Ecowas And Free Movement Of Persons: African Women As Cross-Border Victims, Ayodeji Anthony Aduloju

Journal of International Women's Studies

Existing literature has investigated the challenges of interstate border dispute, border conflict and their security and developmental implications for the West African sub-region. ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol of Persons was instituted to enhance economic development of West Africa’s citizens. However, studies have shown that the protocol has relatively aided trans-border trafficking in persons, drugs, Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). However, vulnerability of trans-border women traders in the sub-region have received little attention. This study utilized both primary and secondary sources of data gathering in order to interrogate the provisions of ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons vis-à-vis its …

Gender Dimensions And Women’S Vulnerability In Disaster Situations: A Case Study Of Flood Prone Areas Impacting Women In Malabon City, Metro Manila, Daniella Dominique Reyes, Jinky Leilanie Lu

Journal of International Women's Studies

Disasters are common in the Philippines, the effects of which are more adverse in the metropolis, characterized by population crowding and presence of geophysical hazards. Malabon City in Metro Manila is characterized by such risk factors to disasters. The target population of this study were women as they frequently remain at home while their husbands are out for work. The methodologies were both qualitative and quantitative through the use of key expert and subject interviews, and a survey questionnaire respectively. The objectives of the study were to look into the structure of Philippine disaster management, to investigate the role of …

Farming Cooperatives: Opportunities And Challenges For Women Farmers In Jamaica, Amani Ishemo, Brenda Bushell

Journal of International Women's Studies

In many respects it is Jamaican women who play a pivotal role in small-scale farming, particularly in marketing farm produce. More highly educated than men, and gender-wise, women farmers are highly self-reliant; however, their socio-economic strength is not fully capitalized through cooperative endeavors to foster productivity on their farms. This research examines women’s cooperatives and the operations of women farmers in two remote rural communities using focus group discussion and targeted on-site investigation approaches. We find that over the years, small farming cooperatives are unsustainable because of their land-tenure problem, and lack of decision-making power at the grassroots level. The …

Spaced And Expanded Practice: An Investigation Of Methods To Enhance Retention, Katherine Kalenberg

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

In order to promote quality instruction and maximized student learning, it is essential for schools to integrate the most practical, effective, and efficient teaching methods into the curriculum. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of various spacing patterns between practice sessions on retention of information. This study investigated the effects of practice at consistent intervals (spaced practice), practice at increasing intervals (expanded practice), and no practice. Participants were taught a set of eight unknown math words and definitions using incremental rehearsal (IR). After the teaching session, students in expanded and spaced practice conditions participated in three …

Under Pressure: The Nonpartisan League In South Central Minnesota, Jonathan Soucek

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

The Nonpartisan League attempted to enter Minnesota politics in 1918, with Charles Lindbergh, Sr. as the League-endorsed candidate for governor in the Republican primaries. As the League moved into Minnesota in 1917, it hoped to achieve the same success it had in North Dakota. Unfortunately, the United States entered World War I in April of 1917 as the Nonpartisan League began to organize in Minnesota. The League opposed America’s entry into the war, but supported the war effort when the United States declared war on Germany. League opponents and much of the general public, however, labeled the Nonpartisan League a …

Cpaf Updates Vol. 18 No. 5, Evelie P. Serrano, Guinevere T. Madlangbayan, Stoix Nebin S. Pascua, Stella Concepcion R. Britanico, Francisca O. Tan, Rueth Anne T. Ruelos

CPAf Updates

In this issue:

• CPAf holds international conference, 1
• KMO staff talk about journal publication, 2
• Dr. Berse speaks about local disaster resilience, 3
• KMO learning events held for CPAf students, admin staff, 4
• Project team presents research papers on CRDES 2, 4
• Dir. Pantoja presents paper at ISBM–Fall 2017, 5
• Dr. Reyes is IGRD’s new Director, 6
• Ferdinand “Max” C. Maquito, Ph.D. Engineer, Economist, Researcher, Writer, Speaker, Teacher, 7
• News bits, 8

Wofford College Catalogue 2017-2018, Wofford College. Office Of The Registrar

College Catalogues

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Football Media Guide 2017, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

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Men's Golf Media Guide 2017-18, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Soccer Media Guide 2017, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

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Volleyball Media Guide 2017, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

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Women's Soccer Media Guide 2017, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

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Women's Golf Media Guide 2017-18, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

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Student Fellows 2017-2018, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document provides biographies of PLACE student fellows at Linfield College for 2017-2018.

Faculty Fellows 2017-2018, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document provides biographies of PLACE faculty fellows at Linfield College for 2017-2018.

The Digital Citizen, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document explains the PLACE theme at Linfield College for 2017-2018 (The Digital Society: The Digital Citizen).

September 2017, Marci Grant

The CETL Correspondent

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Statistics - September 2017, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of September 2017, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 24,900 full-text and additional file downloads and 10,599 page views.

Mybarrio: Emigdio Vasquez And Chicana/O Identity In Orange County, Natalie Lawler, Denise Johnson, Marcus Herse, Jessica Bocinski, Manon Wogahn

Exhibition Catalogs

"Emigdio Vasquez created artwork that challenged Orange County’s more prominent narrative of wealthy beachside neighborhoods. He painted the brown bodies and brown histories that defined our earliest communities and economy... Vasquez produced much of the local art history that Orange County should be known for and should protect. It is with this perspective that Chapman University is proud to present the exhibition, My Barrio: Emigdio Vasquez and Chicana/o Identity in Orange County, in conjunction with the Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. We hope to initiate discourse not only about Vasquez’s prolific career, but also about the larger political …

The Challenge Of Making Good Logical Arguments, Ron Disanto, Karen Adkins

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Evaluating The Empirical Performance Of Dsge Models: What Is The Role Of Search And Matching Frictions In The Labor And Capital Markets?, Weng Sam Mok

Dissertations and Theses Collection

A major perspective in explaining involuntary unemployment is to recognize the existence of job market frictions, in particular, job market matching frictions. The workhorse model employed is the Diamond- Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) model. Similar to the labor market, the market for physical capital markets exhibits the same characteristics with a pool of unsold inventory as well as used capital that is sold and reallocated to other terms. Nevertheless, past research has highlighted several issues of the DMP model in matching the characteristics of the labor market. In a model enriched with labor participation flows and job separation, I evaluate the model …

Illiteracy Among Adults In The Us, Chloe Haderlie, Alyssa Clark

Ballard Brief

Illiteracy affects a person's ability to fully participate in and contribute to the world around them. About 18% of the US adult population is functionally illiterate. Hispanics, older people, and incarcerated people are more likely to be low literate than other US adults. Major factors influencing literacy development include education, socioeconomic status, learning English as a second language, learning disabilities, and crime. Many of these causes and consequences of illiteracy are intersecting and cyclical. Additionally, illiteracy is perpetuated from parent to child and is likely to lead to higher chances of unemployment and poverty. Adult literacy programs with a developed …

A Study On The Effect Of Information System On The Internal Factors And Managerial Performance - Focus On Hotel, Company, And Hospital Information System, Kim Hyo-Kyung, Kim Seok-Hun, Moon Jae-Young

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The purpose of this study is to analyses, through causal relationship, how information system influences on employee satisfaction, strategy, work process, and business results compare with manufacture and service companies, hotels, and hospitals area. Empirical finding of this research suggest that information system a positive effects on employee satisfaction, strategy, and work process three areas. Employee satisfaction and work process have a positive influence business results. However, strategy has an effect on employee satisfaction which is hotels and work process has an effect on manufacture and Service companies.

On The Inverse Problem For Thermostatted Kinetic Models With Application To The Financial Market, Carlo Bianca, Aly Kombargi

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper is concerned with the coupling of the inverse problem theory with the thermostatted kinetic theory. Specifically an inverse problem is proposed where the data vector consists of m known measures, the data kernel is a m×n matrix which depends on the distribution function vector that is solution of the thermostatted kinetic theory model, and the unknown source or signal consists of a n-dimensional vector. In particular the paper focuses on the under-determined inverse problem, namely m < n, and the solution is obtained by employing the principle of maximum Shannon entropy of the information theory. Applications refer to the financial market and specifically to the derivation of the information which triggers the evolution of global stock market indexes. Future research directions are also discussed into the last section of the paper.

2017-2018 Bic Teaching Guide, Marta Moore Editor

Book in Common

Teaching guide for the 2017-2018 Book-in-Common: Take this Man: A Memoir, by Brando Skyhorse.

Forming Thoughtful, Committed Citizens, Lucas Sharma S.J.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.