scholarly journals Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors Over Time

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Sierminska ◽  
Daniela Piazzalunga ◽  
Markus Grabka
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Over Time

Quantifying gender distances in education, occupation and employment

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Symeonaki ◽  
Celestine Filopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Distance Measures ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vertical Segregation ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of gender in education, occupation and employment in Southern Europe and more specifically in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The goal is to provide measures that can trace gender differences with respect to their educational and employment features in these countries, explore whether these differences converge over time and compare the patterns observed in each country given their socio-economic similarities. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses raw data drawn from the European Social Survey (ESS) for the decade 2002-2012. It provides a method for quantifying gender differences in education, occupation and employment and their evolution over time based on distance measures. Findings The results reveal that gender distances in education have gradually subsided in these countries. However, occupational choices differ steadily over the years for all countries. The paper provides, therefore, solid evidence that equalizing the level of education between men and women during those years did not result in a decrease in the occupational distances between them. Moreover, based on the latest round the findings suggest that men and women are equally likely to having experienced unemployment within the last five years. Research limitations/implications Further research could be done to include results based on raw data from the seventh round of the ESS. This may provide valuable information for Spain and Portugal who did participate in this round. Social implications This research implies that more needs to be done to accelerate progress in order to achieve gender occupational equality in Southern Europe. Originality/value This paper draws attention to issues concerning gender differences in education, horizontal and vertical segregation and employment for which it provides distance measures and evidence of how they have evolved over time, based on raw data analysis from the ESS.

scholarly journals The changing role of local water resources over time (The case of Slovenian rural region Bela krajina)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Dr. Trobec ◽  
Barbara Lampič ◽  
Dušan Plut
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The article examines issues of local water resources using Bela Krajina as an example - a rural, karst landscape in south-eastern Slovenia. In the field, we made an inventory of 261 different water resources, analysing their past and current use along with their role in the life of the local population and assessing their hydrogeological sensitivity and hydroecological threat they face. With the introduction of distributed water systems, water resources lost their traditional importance in terms of water supply, with local population’s reliance on and knowledge about them fading. Nevertheless, certain local communities have recently recognized their natural and cultural value, as well as their importance to ecosystems, which is reflected in initiatives for the preservation, protection and restoration of individual water resources. Most of Bela Krajina’s water resources are very sensitive to pollution due to the karst surface, however the actual hydroecological threat they face from human activities in their catchments is relatively low.

Muck, Mummies and Medicine: Disgust in Early Modern Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-65
Author(s):  
Sarah-Maria Schober
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This essay shows that early modern practices that used human bodily matter cannot be – as hitherto – explained by the absence of the emotion of disgust nor as being conducted in spite of disgust. Instead, it proposes to read those practices’ changing history as part of the history of the ‘paradox of disgust’. Four case studies (on anatomy, excrement, mummies and skulls) demonstrate that disgust was highly productive: it attracted fascination, allowed physicians to fashion themselves, and was even believed capable of healing. Over time and for complex reasons, however, the productive side of disgust declined. Combining current approaches in the history of emotions and material culture studies, this essay sets out not only to propose a new narrative for the changing role of disgust in early modern science and societies, but also to explore how variations in settings and human intervention changed the way emotions were used and perceived.

Call Subject Patterns Among On-Call Clinical Pathology Residents in an Academic Institution: How Can Tracking Changes in Patterns Over Time Benefit Resident Education?

2008 ◽  
Vol 132 (8) ◽  
pp. 1317-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie C. Do ◽  
Jonathan Ben-Ezra ◽  
Richard A. McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Resident Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Clinical Pathology ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Large Teaching Hospital ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Context.—On-call responsibility is an important part of residency training in clinical pathology. This task provides important consultative services for the hospital and serves as a valuable learning experience for the resident. Objective.—To identify the types of calls received by residents at a large teaching hospital, to assess how and why these calls have changed over time, and to determine the educational value in tracking such changes. Design.—A retrospective review of resident on-call records from 2 periods (2005–2006 and 1997–1998) was performed. Calls were classified based on the call subject and the caller. Results.—Although some general patterns remained similar, several differences were identified between the time periods. Calls regarding mislabeled specimens fell, while calls concerning panic values and the blood bank (specifically therapeutic apheresis) increased. Conclusions.—The different patterns identified in calls between the 2 periods reflect the ever-changing role of the clinical pathologist within the hospital system and provide evidence that monitoring these shifting patterns could be a valuable tool in the education of clinical pathology residents.

The promises and pitfalls of collective bargaining for ending the victimization of trade union activists: Lessons from France

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Guillaume ◽  
Sophie Pochic ◽  
Vincent-Arnaud Chappe
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Union Activists ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Over Time

The broadening of the anti-discrimination legislation and the growing use of litigation have put pressure on organizations to respond to the law by elaborating formal rules and, in the case of France, negotiating collective agreements on union rights. This article addresses the issue of union victimization by investigating the various organizational responses to anti-discrimination law. By focusing on in-depth case studies over a long period of time, it offers new insights into the processes whereby law is internalized and how they interact with litigation over time, and also highlights the active, contested and changing role of HR professionals and trade unionists in the shaping of organizational responses.

The Structural Influence of Marketing Journals: A Citation Analysis of the Discipline and its Subareas over Time

2003 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Baumgartner ◽  
Rik Pieters
Keyword(s):  
Citation Index ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Business ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Structural Influence ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index ◽  
Over Time

The authors investigate the overall and subarea influence of a comprehensive set of marketing and marketing-related journals at three points in time during a 30-year period using a citation-based measure of structural influence. The results show that a few journals wield a disproportionate amount of influence in the marketing journal network as a whole and that influential journals tend to derive their influence from many different journals. Different journals are most influential in different subareas of marketing; general business and managerially oriented journals have lost influence, whereas more specialized marketing journals have gained in influence over time. The Journal of Marketing emerges as the most influential marketing journal in the final period (1996–97) and as the journal with the broadest span of influence across all subareas. Yet the Journal of Marketing is notably influential among applied marketing journals, which themselves are of lesser influence. The index of structural influence is significantly correlated with other objective and subjective measures of influence but least so with the impact factors reported in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Overall, the findings demonstrate the rapid maturation of the marketing discipline and the changing role of key journals in the process.

Cultural Branding in the Early Modern Period

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieke van Deinsen ◽  
Nina Geerdink
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Cultural Branding ◽  
Over Time

The early modern commercial book market was the cradle of authorial branding. Authors and publishers increasingly explored the construction of authorial brands: a set of recurring and recognizable characteristics associated with authorial images. This chapter looks at branding in the context of the media landscape of the early modern Dutch Republic. Authorial branding developed over time in conjunction with new conceptions of the individual, technological innovations, and the changing role of – amongst others – patrons and publishers. Analyses of the branding of Jan Jansz. Starter (1593-1626) and Sara Maria van der Wilp (1716-1803) illustrate how the non-formalized, dynamic constellation of the literary field inspired various agents to create a range of (multifaceted) author brands on the spectrum ‘economic-symbolic’.

scholarly journals Depoliticisation and the Changing Trajectories of Grassroots Women's Leadership in Peru: From Empowerment to Service Delivery?

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATY JENKINS
Keyword(s):  
Women Leaders ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis paper examines how practices of leadership have been negotiated and have changed over time in the context of a grassroots health promotion project in Lima, Peru. Tracing these trajectories in the context of the evolution of women's organising in Peru informs a broader analysis of the changing role of grassroots women in development projects, feeding into debates around the professionalisation and depoliticisation of grassroots activism and providing new empirical material on gendered experiences of grassroots leadership. The paper recognises the increasing dominance of neoliberal management mechanisms but argues that the depoliticisation of grassroots women leaders is not simply a straightforward trickledown of neoliberal development practices but is produced through the interplay of local socio-political processes and personal biographies of activism with more macro-level development trends and discourses.

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