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Arlana J. Vadnais; Tracey Peter; Jennifer Dengate; Annemieke Farenhorst; Catherine Mavriplis – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Gender disparity persists in the personal caregiving of children and older adults, and in professional caregiving duties, with many workplace policies and cultures favoring the "ideal worker" and presenting significant and continuing barriers to female caregivers' professional success and well-being. The recent pandemic both highlighted…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Caregivers, Gender Differences
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Peetz, David; Preston, Alison; Walsworth, Scott; Weststar, Johanna – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
In this paper we contribute to the emerging literature on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity. We extend previous studies by considering men and women academics from science and non-science disciplines through an analysis of data from academics at 14 universities across two countries (seven in Australia…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Research, Productivity, Gender Differences
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Janine Jongbloed; Johanna Turgetto; Lesley Andres; Wolfgang Lauterbach – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
This article compares the education, employment, and care work biographical sequences of Canadian and German women and men from late adolescence into mid-adulthood. Through the lenses of comparative gendered life course theory and welfare regime theory, sequence and cluster analyses are used to determine the adult life course sequences of women…
Descriptors: Education, Child Caregivers, Family Environment, Late Adolescents
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Jones, Candy; Chamberlain, Julie; Sayers, Gretta; Wood, Lisa; Smith, Nadine; Waddell-Henowitch, Candice; Fleming, Cheryl – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted university faculty in profound ways, particularly those who are marginalized by gender. While social and institutional injustices have always existed for these faculty, stressors related to caregiving during a global pandemic have exacerbated inequities related to distribution of care work at home and teaching…
Descriptors: Caring, COVID-19, Pandemics, Gender Differences
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Kapasi, Aamena; Pei, Jacqueline; Kryska, Kathryn; Joly, Vannesa; Gill, Kamaldeep; Thompson-Hodgetts, Sandra; McLachlan, Kaitlyn; Andrew, Gail; Rasmussen, Carmen – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2021
Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) experience a range of cognitive, behavioral, and physical difficulties, including difficulties with self-regulation. We investigated self-regulation strategy use in adolescents with FASD who completed a self-regulation intervention program. The intervention was an adapted version of the Alert…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Self Management, Self Control
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Powell, Alana; Langford, Rachel; Albanese, Patrizia; Prentice, Susan; Bezanson, Kate – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of…
Descriptors: Elections, Child Caregivers, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
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Chang-Kredl, Sandra – Gender and Education, 2018
Cultural stories provide us with a repertoire of narratives through which we interpret and construct our understandings of the world, including our gendered understandings of the early childhood teacher. Through her notion of "écriture feminine", Cixous [1976. "The Laugh of the Medusa." Trans K. Cohen and P. Cohen. "Signs:…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Child Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Sex Role
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Garcia Quiroga, Manuela; Hamilton-Giachritsis, Catherine – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: A large number of children are currently living in Alternative Care. The relationship they establish with their temporary caregivers can play a significant role in their development. However, little has been published regarding attachment with temporary Caregivers. Objective: The aim of this review is to analyse the existing published…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Children, Child Care Centers, Group Homes
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Hudson Kam, Carla L.; Matthewson, Lisa – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Studies on the relationship between bookreading and language development typically lack data about which books are actually read to children. This paper reports on an Internet survey designed to address this data gap. The resulting dataset (the Infant Bookreading Database or IBDb) includes responses from 1,107 caregivers of children aged 0-36…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Databases, Books, Childrens Literature
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Lakman, Yana; Chalmers, Heather; Sexton, Cayleigh – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Young Carers (YCs) provide care for ill, disabled, or addicted family member(s) and may experience risk to their educational success. This study examined 145 YCs in Southern Ontario, aged 8-18, using surveys and found that many YCs considered school important and were doing well academically whereas some YCs' education was negatively impacted.…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Correlation, Children, Adolescents
Davidson, Jordan; Arim, Rubab – Statistics Canada, 2019
Reducing the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) is one of the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8. This has become an important indicator that is monitored by many countries and international organizations since youth NEET are prone to long-term economic and social difficulties. Although…
Descriptors: Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries, Unemployment, At Risk Persons
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Ongley, Sophia F.; Malti, Tina – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the role of moral emotions in the development of children's sharing behavior (N = 244 4-, 8-, and 12-year-old children). Children's sympathy was measured with both self- and primary caregiver-reports, and participants anticipated their negatively and positively valenced moral emotions (i.e., feeling guilty, sad, or bad; and…
Descriptors: Role, Moral Values, Prosocial Behavior, Predictor Variables
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Rescorla, Leslie A.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Bilenberg, Niels; Bjarnadottir, Gudrun; Denner, Silvia; Dias, Pedro; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Frigerio, Alessandra; Goncalves, Miguel; Guomundsson, Halldor; Jusiene, Roma; Kristensen, Solvejg; Lecannelier, Felipe; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Liu, Jianghong; Lobel, Sofia P.; Machado, Barbara Cesar; Markovic, Jasminka; Mas, Paola A.; Esmaeili, Elaheh Mohammad; Montirosso, Rosario; Pluck, Julia; Pronaj, Adelina Ahmeti; Rodriguez, Jorge T.; Rojas, Pamela O.; Schmeck, Klaus; Shahini, Mimoza; Silva, Jaime R.; van der Ende, Jan; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2012
This study tested societal effects on caregiver/teacher ratings of behavioral/emotional problems for 10,521 preschoolers from 15 societies. Many societies had problem scale scores within a relatively narrow range, despite differences in language, culture, and other characteristics. The small age and gender effects were quite similar across…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Caregivers, Theory Practice Relationship
Grant, Karen R.; Drakich, Janice – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2011
This paper focuses on the gendered nature of elite academic careers. Of interest is how similar or different the experiences are of women and men who have been appointed to Canada Research Chairs (CRCs). In particular, we examine the impacts of holding a CRC position and consider the factors that shape that experience for women and men. Based on…
Descriptors: Females, Caregivers, Gender Differences, College Faculty
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Humble, Aine M.; Keefe, Janice M.; Auton, Greg M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2012
Using the concept of "retirement congruency" (RC), which takes into account greater variation in retirement decisions (low, moderate, or high RC) than a dichotomous conceptualization (forced versus chosen), multinomial logistic regression was conducted on a sample of caregivers from the 2002 Canadian General Social Survey who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Retirement, Decision Making, Personal Autonomy
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