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Ronald Osei Mensah; Andrews Acquah; Daniel Yeboah Mensah – Cogent Education, 2024
The study investigated the home factors affecting the academic performances of girl children in the Dome cluster of schools. A descriptive survey methodology was employed in this research. Through a multistage sample technique, 197 respondents were randomly selected. The primary data for the study were collected using a closed-ended questionnaire…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Junior High School Students, Family Influence
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Castellsagué, Alba; Carrasco, Silvia – Ethnography and Education, 2021
Education and gender have become central issues within development discourses and practices in Nepal, under the powerful idea that school enables equality for women, collective wellbeing, and the nation's development. While hegemonic approaches to development are being increasingly challenged, critical contributions focusing on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Equal Education, Womens Education
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Elizabeth Sumida Huaman – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2019
This article discusses Quechua women, labor, and educational opportunity in Peru and explores the relationship between coloniality and violence, Quechua racialized labor and Spanish exploitation, and unequal access to formal schooling, which have impacted generations of Quechua women. Drawing from a larger narrative project with three generations…
Descriptors: Females, American Indians, Race, Colonialism
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Midgette, Allegra J. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethics, Gender Differences
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Kasimova, Ramilya Sh.; Biktagirova, Gulnara F. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Creating a happy family with a favorable psychological climate is important both for the individual and the society as a whole. One of the factors, that influence the creation of a welfare family, is the content of the spouses' concepts of the family, its functions and their possible distribution. The main purpose of this article is to identify…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Males, Females, Gender Differences
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Nicolete, Jamilly Nicácio; Almeida, Jane Soares de – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
In this article, in a historical perspective, the authors discuss the symbolization of the female figure in the social imaginary in relation to a teaching career, based on the practices of teacher training, professionalization and co-education,. Since colonial times, the education of females in Brazil has always been permeated with expectations…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Gender Differences, Sex Role
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Lam, Chun Bun; Greene, Kaylin M.; McHale, Susan M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The developmental course, family correlates, and adjustment implications of youth housework participation from age 8-18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 201 European American families provided questionnaire and/or daily diary data on 6 occasions across 7 years. Multilevel modeling within an accelerated longitudinal design…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Adolescents, Working Hours
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Treas, Judith; Tai, Tsui-o – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Despite many studies on the gendered division of housework, there is little research on how couples divide the work of household management. Relative resource theories of household bargaining inform analyses of who does the housework, but their applicability to household management is unclear, if only because management responsibility may be…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Housework, Spouses, Sex Role
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Walters, Peter; Whitehouse, Gillian – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Employed Women, Labor, Housework
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Kahn, Joan R.; McGill, Brittany S.; Bianchi, Suzanne M. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
This article uses recent data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (N = 5,220) to explore gender differences in the extent to which adults in their 50s and 60s provide informal help to their adult children, elderly parents, and friends. We find that both men and women report very high levels of helping kin and nonkin alike, although women do more…
Descriptors: Females, Older Adults, Gender Differences, Males
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Carvalho, Marília – Gender and Education, 2015
The principle focus of this article is to understand the influence of socialisation in the family on the success of girls at school. Eight low-income families with children of both sexes in the city of São Paulo, Brazil were studied through interviews and observation methods. It was found that socialisation in the family favoured in girls, and not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Family Influence
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Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, Andre Portela – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes among Brazilian children and young adults by exploring the exogenous variation of family size driven by the presence of twins in the family. Using the…
Descriptors: Females, Family Size, Males, Human Capital
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Goldberg, Abbie E.; Smith, JuliAnna Z.; Perry-Jenkins, Maureen – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of…
Descriptors: Adoption, Homosexuality, Housework, Family Characteristics
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Erchull, Mindy J.; Liss, Miriam; Axelson, Sarah J.; Staebell, Samantha E.; Askari, Sabrina F. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010
The current study examined how desire for marriage and children related to anticipated chore involvement for both men and women. An online survey was completed by 466 college students recruited from multiple colleges and universities in Virginia. Participants provided information about their own desire for marriage and children, expectations for…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Marriage, Social Attitudes
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Boye, Katarina – Social Indicators Research, 2009
Absolute as well as relative hours of paid and unpaid work may influence well-being. This study investigates whether absolute hours spent on paid work and housework account for the lower well-being among women as compared to men in Europe, and whether the associations between well-being and hours of paid work and housework differ by gender…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Foreign Countries, Housework, Social Environment
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