Speech act of thanking: a contrastive analysis among Iranian EFL learners in terms of gender and level of proficiency
Autor/in:
Hesabi, Akbar; Azima, Mina
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 59, S 76-84
Inhalt: The speech act of thanking is one of the fairly neglected areas of research in the Iranian context. The present study seeks to investigate the ways in which this social act is expressed by young male and female EFL learners. To collect the data for this study sixty participants (30 males, 30females) were selected randomly from among the population of BA and MA students of Najafabad university and students learning English in a language institutes located in Najafabad. The major focus of this study was the role that gender and individuals’ level of proficiency might play in the application of thanking strategies. Students were asked to complete a discourse completion test (DCT). They were supposed to read thirteen natural situations, and react to them via expressing gratitude. In order to analyze the utterances of thanking, Cheng's coding scheme was employed. Students' responses were further classified according to the gender and level of proficiency. The results revealed that the females were more cautious in selecting strategies of gratitude. Individuals' level of proficiency was also found to play an important role in the process of strategy selection.
Empowerment und Gender: zur Bedeutung des aktuellen Genderdiskurses für die Weiterbildung
Autor/in:
Kröner, Stefanie
Quelle: Erwachsenenbildung : Vierteljahresschrift für Theorie und Praxis, 61 (2015) 2, S 30-32
Inhalt: Der Aufsatz stellt die Frage, welchen Beitrag der Empowerment- Begriff für die Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung/ Weiterbildung leistet. Dabei wird in erster Linie auf den Empowerment-Begriff eingegangen, der als Aufgabe der Erwachsenenbildung zum Erreichen beruflicher Chancengleichheit von Mann und Frau verstanden werden kann. Darüber hinaus wird der Empowerment-Begriff, der in unterschiedlichen sozialen Bewegungen verwendet wurde, für die Genderdiskussion ausgelegt. Angeregt werden soll eine verstärkte Genderforschung in der Erwachsenenbildung, welche positive Auswirkungen auf die pädagogische Praxis hätte.
Schlagwörter:adult education; gender; soziale Bewegung; social movement; Chancengleichheit; Erwachsenenbildung; Gender; empowerment; Mann; woman; Beruf; Empowerment; Weiterbildung; equal opportunity; occupation; further education; man
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Bildungswesen quartärer Bereich, Berufsbildung
Polish "handymen" in Germany: an example for the neglected "male" side of commodified reproductive work?
Autor/in:
Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 109), 2012. 10 S
Schlagwörter:labor migration; role distribution; Betreuung; Pole; Pole; Hausarbeit; Rollenverteilung; role image; housework; Migrant; Arbeitsmigration; Federal Republic of Germany; social inequality; man; Rollenbild; labor market; Arbeitsmarkt; gender; care; migrant; Gender; child care; Mann; Kinderbetreuung; gender-specific factors; soziale Ungleichheit
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitsmarktforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration
Jenseits des one-size-fits-all-Ansatzes: die psychosoziale Arbeit mit häuslichen Gewalttätern
Titelübersetzung:Batterer intervention: beyond the one-size-fits-all approach
Autor/in:
Hafner, Gerhard
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 4 (2012) 1, S 108-123
Inhalt: "Seit den 1970er Jahren existieren in den USA Täterprogramme gegen häusliche Gewalt an Frauen. Die Batterer Intervention hat sich als Teil eines engen Kooperationsverbundes (Community Coordinated Response) bewährt. Der Artikel stellt Ansätze aus den USA vor, die mehr Vielfalt hinsichtlich der Methodik, z.B. der Gefährdungsanalyse, und des besonderen Hilfebedarfs für spezielle Tätergruppen postulieren. Die Diskurse in den USA über die Weiterentwicklung der Täterarbeit werden dargestellt, da sie bisher von den deutschsprachigen Fachleuten kaum rezipiert werden." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "Batterer intervention was introduced in the United States in the 1970s as part of the fight against domestic violence. It has proved its worth in the context of the Community Coordinated Response approach. This article presents approaches from the United States that posit more diverse methods, for instance threat assessment or special services for specific perpetrators. Discussions in the United States about the evolution of batterer intervention are presented here since they have so far gone largely unnoticed in German-speaking countries." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:USA; United States of America; häusliche Gewalt; domestic violence; Gewalt; violence; woman; Sozialarbeit; social work; Täter; offender; Prävention; prevention; Männlichkeit; masculinity; Intervention; intervention; Modell; model; Opfer; victim; Analyse; analysis; psychosoziale Intervention; psychosocial intervention; Federal Republic of Germany; soziale Faktoren; social factors; Ausbildung; training; Problemlösen; problem solving; Gewaltbereitschaft; propensity to violence; Mann; man; Gefährdung; endangerment; Gender; gender; Nordamerika; North America
Reporting Romania's 2009 European elections: press coverage and viability of the male and female candidates
Autor/in:
Iorgoveanu, Aurora
Quelle: Eurolimes, (2011) Supl. 3, S 249-262
Inhalt: This article aims to analyze and compare the press coverage of the two most visible male and female candidates for a Member of the European Parliament office during the campaign for the European elections held in Romania, June 2009. The present study examines a month of coverage in the four most influential broadsheets and tabloids in Romania: Cancan, EvenimentulZilei, Gândul and Libertatea. Using a design of content analysis, the results of this paper emphasize that Elena Băsescu received less coverage than did George Becali. There were also found qualitative differences in coverage, attributed to Elena Băsescu’s gender, who was depicted as not being viable to represent the Romanians interests in Brussels.
Schlagwörter:press; gender; Berichterstattung; Wahlkampf; Gender; Kandidatur; ; Europaparlament; European Parliament; Romania; election campaign; Mann; woman; Politikerin; election to the European Parliament; Rumänien; candidacy; gender-specific factors; Presse; man; reporting; Europawahl; member of the European Parliament; election coverage; horse-race
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Europapolitik, Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Lehre und Studium, Professionalisierung und Ethik, Organisationen und Verbände der Erziehungswissenschaft
Education gender gaps in Pakistan: is the labour market to blame
Autor/in:
Aslam, Monazza
Quelle: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57 (2009) 4, S 747-84
Inhalt: Differential labor market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This article contributes to the literature by using a variety of methodologies (ordinary least squares, Heckman correction, two‐stage least squares, and household fixed effects) in order to estimate economic returns to education. The latest nationally representative data - the Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (2002) - are used. Earnings function estimates consistently reveal a sizable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women's education being substantially and statistically significantly higher than men's. The return to an additional year of schooling ranges between 7% and 11% for men and between 13% and 18% for women. There are also large, direct returns to women's education at low levels of schooling, and the education‐earnings profile is more convex for women than for men. However, a decomposition of the gender wage gap (into the component "explained" by differing male and female endowments and the residual component) suggests that there is highly differentiated treatment by employers. We conclude that the total labor market returns are much higher for men, despite returns to education being higher for women. This suggests that parents may have an investment motive in allocating more resources to boys than to girls within households.
Gender Segregated Labour Markets in the Baltics: What are Prevailing - Similarities or Differences?
Autor/in:
Vöörmann, Rein
Quelle: Studies of Transition States and Societies, 1 (2009) 1, S 66-80
Inhalt: "This paper focuses on men and women and the gender segregation of jobs in the Baltic countries. Based
on the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian labour force survey data, a look is taken at the employment
structure of men and women by industries and occupations, as well as at the question whether or
not gender segregation in the labour market has been increased after the collapse of the communist
systems in the region under consideration. Empirical data demonstrate that in respect to industrial
gender segregation there is some increase in Estonia and Latvia, but not in Lithuania. Occupational gender
segregation demonstrates more stability in all three Baltic States. Compared to the Western European
countries, the main trend is towards bigger similarities." (author's abstract)
Rates of return to education by gender in Pakistan
Autor/in:
Aslam, Monazza
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 1), 2007. 41 S
Inhalt: Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This paper contributes to the literature by using a variety of methodologies (Ordinary Least Squares, Heckman correction, 2SLS and household fixed effects) in order to consistently estimate economic returns to education. Earnings function estimates reveal a sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women's education being substantially and statistically significantly higher than men's. However, a decomposition of the gender wage gap suggests that there is highly differentiated treatment by employers. We conclude that the total labour market returns are much higher for men, despite returns to education being higher for women. This suggests that parents may have an investment motive in allocating more resources to boys than to girls within households.