scholarly journals Acculturation, education, and gender roles: evidence from Canada

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke S Kessler ◽  
Kevin Milligan
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Female Immigrants ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
Generation Female ◽  
Education Gradient

Abstract This article studies the influence of cultural norms on economic outcomes. We combine detailed information on second-generation female immigrants with historical data from their ancestral source countries to see how the cultural endowment affects current decisions on work and fertility. We show that results using the standard approach are somewhat sensitive to context and specification. We then extend to reveal an education gradient for cultural assimilation: lower-educated women exhibit a strong influence of cultural variables while higher-educated women show no influence at all. We gather and present evidence on several potential mechanisms for the education gradient.

The influence of Country of Origin Image on HCMC consumer attitudes towards Vietnamese garments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ha Nam Khanh Giao
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Consumer Attitudes ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Country Of Origin Image ◽  
Relationship Of

The study analyses the factors of Country of Origin Image influencing Vietnamese consumer attitudes towards Vietnamese garments by surveying 366 customers. Cronbach's Alpha analysis and EFA analysis together with multiple regression analysis were used with SPSS. The results show that only two components having a strong influence are "Country of Origin Image" and "Country of Origin Image of Product"; only "Country of Origin Image of Product" affects consumer’s perceived cost of garments; finally, there is a positive relationship of perceived benefits and a negative one of perceived cost of attitudes towards Vietnamese garments. There is no difference in terms of "income", "age" and "gender" for consumer attitudes towards Vietnamese garments. The study also suggests a number of managerial implications for the garment companies to have better competitive advantages.

Toward a Richer Theory of Feminist Pedagogy: A Comparison of “Liberation” and “Gender” Models for Teaching and Learning

1987 ◽  
Vol 169 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Maher
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Feminist Pedagogy ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Liberation Pedagogy ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Contemporary Education

This essay articulates two distinct sources for the set of teaching practices that have come to be called “feminist pedagogy.” The separate contributions of liberation pedagogy and of feminist theories of women's development are described. It is argued that neither approach taken by itself is adequate to produce a feminist pedagogy that fully challenges the androcentric universals of conventional teaching practices. By synthesizing the two approaches, however, feminist pedagogy can be developed in a way that will have a strong influence on contemporary education.

scholarly journals Mutual conditioning of gender and love: Towards a non-gendered idea of humanity

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Slater
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
Cultural Constructions

It is a presumed opinion that gender and love mutually condition each other and that this presumption ought to be embraced by cultural norms, religion, human rights and the ethic of freedom. The notion of mutual conditioning presupposes a healthy and principled environment that facilitates the free dynamic interaction between gender and love. It is the purpose of this article to explore the outcomes of the gender revolution and the additional strands of complexities that it contributed to the human condition. Although feminism has created terminologies such as sex and gender, it is believed that these words have outlived their usefulness to make way for the present-day evolution towards a non-gendered idea of humanity. Gender diversity seeks mutuality, and true love accommodates multiplicity; hence, the interacting and intra-acting of gender and love inevitably come face-to-face with cultural, legal, social, religious and moral milieus that hamper or even contradict the concept of mutual conditioning. This article seeks to trace the evolution of gender within diverse cultural constructions created by new liberal living conditions, but which have not yet infiltrated the diverse cultural domains where gender remains an entity without cultural freedom and therefore undermines the process of mutual conditioning of gender and love. The idea of gender as transcending bodily sex forms part of an old theological and philosophical debate; it, however, resurfaces here while revisiting Aristotle’s idea of a non-gendered society or humanity. A degendered society implies a society that is free from dependence on gender, whereas a non-gendered humanity transcends gender divisions and associations, with its aspirations linked to the transcendence or consciousness of human nature. Love, in this sense, transcends all human dissections, and this article ascertains its capacity to mutually condition the diversity of gender and love.

Voix Blanche?

Making Waves ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Lyn Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
French Woman ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Anglophone World

One of the most important ‘nouvelle vérités’ that has challenged 1970s feminisms in the Anglophone world is intersectionality, and particularly the need to address race and ethnicity as constantly interacting with gender, sexuality, class and other variables; This chapter provides some general reflections on the extent to which a similar crisis and trajectory are present in French feminist histories and narratives, but its main focus is a case-study of Annie Ernaux’s work in this regard, considering questions that have rarely been asked in Ernaux criticism to date: to what extent does Ernaux engage with race and ethnicity as well as class and gender in her writing? If she is an unusually intersectional writer in terms of gender, sexuality and class, and in more recent years one might add age and ageing, does this approach and the strong influence of sociology on Ernaux’s writing lead to awareness of dimensions of oppression that she herself as a white French woman has not personally experienced? How does Ernaux write her own whiteness? Is the ‘I’ of Ernaux’s texts, whether fictional or autobiographical, ‘unevoix blanche’, adopting the cloak of universal whiteness?

Gender

2017 ◽  
pp. 644-672
Author(s):  
Paola Giuliano
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Historical Origin ◽  
And Gender

Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these differences are transmitted from parents to children and therefore persist until today. We review work on the historical origin of differences in female labor force participation, fertility, education, marriage arrangements, competitive attitudes, domestic violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations but tend to persist even after the historical conditions have changed. We also discuss the conditions under which gender norms either tend to be stable or change more quickly.

Italy

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Paternity Leave ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
And Gender

Italy is a familistic welfare state with a traditional breadwinner regime that is slowly changing into a dual earner regime among the younger generations. The chapter investigates how the tensions among cultural norms of familism, changing laws expanding paternal rights and obligations, and narratives of active fathers affect father involvement with young children. In Italy, conceptions of the traditional and modern fathers coexist. Empirical evidence suggests that the new fathers are hesitant to emerge. While the involvement of fathers in family life is growing, commitment to caring activities depends on father’s level of education and partner’s labour market participation. Only a minority of men who are younger and who are more inclined to accept a model of masculinity that includes active fatherhood is highly engaged with their children. Institutional support is necessary to encourage more father involvement and gender egalitarianism, such as extension of compulsory and paid paternity leave, legal mechanisms to encourage fathers to take parental leave, implementation of planned educational programs designed to enhance fathering skills and to promote father involvement, and investment in research on fathers.

Pediatric Residents’ Beliefs and Behaviors About Health Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (13) ◽  
pp. 1415-1422
Author(s):  
Nicole Sitkin Zelin ◽  
John Encandela ◽  
Timothy Van Deusen ◽  
Ada M. Fenick ◽  
Li Qin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Sexual History ◽  
Pediatric Residents ◽  
Gender Minority ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minority ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Provider Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

Little is known about provider beliefs related to sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth, and how these have changed over time. Our objective was to compare pediatric residents’ beliefs and behaviors about SGM youth to historical data. Forty-eight of 76 (63%) residents completed a survey of items drawn from 2 existing scales. Results were compared with historical data from 1998 to 2012. Compared to historical respondents, residents indicated that they were significantly more likely to take a sexual history from patients under 14 years old and ask about sexual orientation. Residents were significantly less likely to fear offending parents or patients with such discussions. While responses indicated SGM-affirming beliefs, 45% of residents felt they may not know enough about SGM needs to have effective discussions, similar to historical respondents. Ongoing challenges include a perceived lack of knowledge about the needs of SGM youth, representing avenues for future educational intervention.

scholarly journals Julia Gillard and the Gender Wars

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 296-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Trimble
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Appropriate Behavior ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Political Warfare ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Wars

The Australian news media used the metaphor of the gender war(s) to describe Julia Gillard's political strategies and speech acts in the final nine months of her term as that nation's first woman prime minister. In particular, the metaphor was mobilized in response to Gillard's October 9, 2012, parliamentary speech on sexism and misogyny. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the gender wars allegory as it was applied to Gillard by three Australian newspapers, my article analyzes the meanings revealed by metaphoric constructions of the former prime minister's speeches as unusual and unjust forms of political warfare. I argue that the trope of the gender wars cast Gillard's political tactics as a violation of deeply held cultural norms about appropriate behavior on the so-called political battlefield, and it worked both to discipline Gillard for raising issues of sexism and gender inequality in politics and to bracket gendered power relations out of everyday understandings of political competition.

A Contribution of the Asian Female Immigrants into the Canadian Population

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Michalowski
Keyword(s):  
Regional Differences ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Push Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Canadian Population ◽  
Female Immigrants ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Source Countries

In Canada, the proportion of women among immigrants fluctuates around 50 percent, with a slight increase in recent years. Another important characteristic of immigration to the country is a radical change in the composition of origin of flows in the past three decades — European-dominated streams have been replaced by those originating mostly in Asia. This paper focuses on female Asian immigrants in Canada. The exploratory analysis of this population points to its significant diversity. This diversity is determined to a great extent by regional differences, and more precisely, by Asian countries' specific situations which produce distinct migration flows destined to Canada. Major Asian source countries of female immigrants (Hong Kong, Philippines, India, China, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Lebanon and Iran) give evidence to the growing importance of political push factors and sending countries' policies-facilitation factors as crucial determinants of international migration.

scholarly journals Applicability of Becker’s theory of allocation of time in modelling married women’s allocation of time between household duties and labour force participation in Zimbabwe

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clapton Munongerwa
Keyword(s):  
Time Allocation ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Household Roles ◽  
Income Effects ◽  
Allocation Of Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

With the rise in women participation in labour force and gender equality campaigns on the one hand and cultural norms which characterise women as house makers on the other, most married women often find themselves in a dilemma as to how to allocate their time among competing needs. This paper used a theoretical approach in reviewing the applicability of the proposals of Becker’s allocation of time theory to the married women’s allocation of time between household duties and labour force participation to the Zimbabwean situation.  It was concluded that though the model ignores the cultural norms of assigning household roles to specific gender, it explained to a greater extent the trends observed in which women spend more time in household chores to which they have a comparative advantage as opposed to their male counterparts. The substitution and income effects explained in this model are also applicable to the preferences and patterns of time allocation by married when faced with a change in wages. 

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