Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Subject "Gender"
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(2011-04-26)Since the introduction of colonialism, African women have frequently been ignored in and excluded from political life in southern Africa. However, many women participated as freedom fighters and activists in southern ...
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My research will elucidate the idea of “Brotherhood” as it relates to the soldiers fighting for our country. First, I will attempt to define a clear concept of Brotherhood as it relates to the American Armed Forces. Then ...
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(2016-04-26)When the Supreme Court of the United States guaranteed the right to marry for same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, the issue of integrating the LGBTQ community into society was propelled into the ...
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This project, explores whether large numbers of women in the legislature are associated with the representation of interests of diverse groups within the group “women.” To begin to answer this question, I examine laws ...
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(2006-08-16)This study examines how the genders of both student writers and their peer tutors affect the dynamics of writing tutoring sessions and influence the student writers’ subsequent evaluations of their peer tutors. Even though ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-07-11)The right to an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the U.S. justice system and is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but are these juries truly impartial, or do they favor defendants who are similar to themselves? In PERC ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)Subject-specific gender disparities appear and widen as students advance through school. In PERC Working Paper 1509, PERC Professor Jonathan Meer and Jaegeum Lim examine test scores for South Korean middle school students ...
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This creative piece was written to explore self-discovery in a new age. College has become an experience that more and more people are going through as they attempt to invent or reinvent themselves, and the protagonist of ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-01-18)The absence of same gender role models in STEM fields has been shown to discourage female student participation in STEM fields of study. In PERC Working Paper 1706, Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches, ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-08-23)The authors exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)
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(2020-04-16)This research addresses the understudied question of how the sex of a jury member, as well as the sex of the offender and victim, affects the decision-making process in the sentencing phase of a crime. I employ an experimental ...
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(1997)425 undergraduates completed a PTSD self-report scale, the Trauma Symptom Inventory, the Lifetime Involvement in Violent Events Survey, and a substance abuse questionnaire. They were also asked if they had experienced a ...
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(2013-09-28)A difference in aggregate public opinion and policy preferences between men and women has long been assumed but rarely fully empirically tested. In this analysis, I look at multiple economic factors impacting men and women ...