See Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Sarah Palin Run? Party, Ideology, and the Influence of Female Role Models on Young Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 716-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mack Mariani ◽  
Bryan W. Marshall ◽  
A. Lanethea Mathews-Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Sarah Palin

Folded Fashions: Symmetry in Clothing Design

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-206
Author(s):  
Lisa J. Evered
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Clothing Design ◽  
Historical References

Recent reports supported by research indicate the need to encourage girls as well as boys to continue the study of mathematics. Two reasons often given for the lack of females' interest in mathematics are its perception as a male domain and the scarcity of female role models. These influences appear to be active early in the mathematics curriculum. Despite the efforts of concerned teachers and textbook publishers, the majority of classroom applications of mathematics are oriented more toward males than females. Further, historical references to such female mathematicians such as Hypatia, Kovalevsky, and Noether do little toencouragetoday's young women who may not wish to become mathematicians to choose vocations in which mathematics is important

Selection criteria for the biographies of female role models

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes N. O'Connell ◽  
◽  
Nancy Felipe Russo
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Female Role

Traditions and Transformations

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Regina Marler
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Status ◽  
Childhood Home ◽  
Octavia Hill

Modernist, feminist, experimental: the terms we now most associate with Virginia Woolf all presuppose a break with conventions and a rejection of the status quo in art and power relations. Yet all her life, Virginia Woolf kept returning in memory to her childhood home, to the crowded Victorian family in which she was raised, where boys went to the best schools that Sir Leslie Stephen could afford, and girls, however clever or gifted, were shaped for charitable work, for motherhood, for marriage to prominent men. This obsessive turning back is a kind of pained nostalgia: a lament, a grievance, a comfort—and the engine of even her most avant-garde work. This chapter explores the traditions and assumptions of that potent childhood world, in part through the prism of three conservative female role models her mother, Julia Stephen, chose for her daughters: Mrs. Humphry Ward, Octavia Hill, and Florence Nightingale.

scholarly journals Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Sharrow ◽  
Dara Z. Strolovitch ◽  
Michael T. Heaney ◽  
Seth E. Masket ◽  
Joanne M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
Sarah Palin

scholarly journals Women’s travel writing in the cyber-world – ecofeminist and difference feminist approaches in travel blogs

Feminismo/s ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Mirja Riggert
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Gendered Spaces ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Mother Nature ◽  
Female Authority ◽  
Travel Discourse ◽  
Women's Travel

This paper intends to track the development of traditional feminist ideas through the analysis of three contemporary travel blogs. These traditional feminist concepts are to be seen in the construction of a collective female identity that enables transnational and transgenerational solidarity: by receiving and transmitting inspiration, shelter and encouragement among female travellers, the narrators in the blogs create a system of female authority. Within this system, female role models as well as maternal figures become points of reference that help to revalue female attributes. This concept shows allusions to the theory of difference feminism as it is presented in the «symbolic order of the mother» by Luisa Muraro. A similar approach of revaluating femininity happens through the orientation towards ‘Mother Nature’. By staging women’s ability to give birth, cultural ecofeminists like Susan Griffin intend to affirm a close bond between women and nature. This representation of an emphasised femininity becomes a central marker in the narratives of the blogs. While this agenda might be designed to counter gendered spaces and the traditional alienation of women within travel discourse, it is problematised by exclusionary and essentialist definitions of femininity that harden engendered binaries like masculinity/femininity or nature/culture.

scholarly journals The Anatomy Of EEOs Level Playing Field

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Edward L. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Level Playing Field ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Equal Employment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sarah Palin

The election of President Barack Obama, and the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin raise the issue of whether we continue to need equal employment opportunity and/or affirmative action. The concept of a level playing field is carefully developed, and provides a basis for a more thorough analysis of the future of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.

Relationship Literacy

2017 ◽  
pp. 168-192
Author(s):  
Valerie Awino Opiyo ◽  
Yossi Ives
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Committed Relationships ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Real Relationship ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter will explore the attitudes of young women between the ages of 18-25 years towards romantic relationships in the slums of Nairobi, with a view to wider lessons for young women in other societies. Through four case studies examining the lives, relationships and motherhood experiences in Mukuru Kwa Ruben slum, key themes are suggested to explain the high rate of early and single motherhood. Through the construct of ‘relationship literacy,' the chapter will suggest that poor or non-existent male role models, weak or negative experiences of committed relationships, combined with harsh socio-economic consequences have resulted in young women having a little notion of what a real relationship is or what commitment is about. In the conclusion, it is suggested that to achieve improved relationships and life chances for young women both in the slums and well beyond, it is vital to focus on promoting and enhancing the relationship literacy of girls and young women, to enable them to make effective life choices.

Implicit Processes and Emotions in Stereotype Threat about Women's Leadership

2017 ◽  
pp. 1592-1612
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn A. Kelso ◽  
Leslie R. Brody
Keyword(s):  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Cognitive Responses ◽  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Stereotype threat about leadership ability may trigger emotional and cognitive responses that reduce women's leadership aspirations. This chapter reviews literature and presents a study on the effects of implicit (covert) and explicit (overt) leadership stereotype threat on women's emotions, power-related cognitions, and behaviors as moderated by exposure to powerful female or male role models. Emotional responses were measured using self-report (direct) and narrative writing (indirect) tasks. Undergraduate women (n = 126) in the Northeastern U.S. were randomly divided into three stereotype threat groups: none, implicit, and explicit. Implicit stereotype threat resulted in higher indirectly expressed (but not self-reported) anxiety, behaviors that benefited others more than the self, and when preceded by exposure to powerful female role models, higher self-reported negative emotion but also higher indirect positive affect. Explicit stereotype threat resulted in higher indirect optimism, and when preceded by exposure to powerful female role models, lower self-reported sadness but also lower implicit power cognitions.

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