Family abductions: An examination of the role of offender genderFeminist Issues - Tập 18 - Trang 58-73 - 2000
Dianne Cyr Carmody, Peggy S. Plass
Utilizing data from a national study of missing children, this article compares family abductions perpetrated by men and women. Comparisons focus on the incidence, outcomes, and institutional responses to the abductions. Also, the relationship between the abductor and child(ren), harm to the child(ren), the use of concealment, and the characteristics of abductors and children are examined. Women p...... hiện toàn bộ
IntroductionFeminist Issues - Tập 20 - Trang 3-3 - 2002
Rita J. Simon
Examining Gender Differences in the Roles of Meaning in Life and Interpersonal Expectancies in Depressive SymptomsFeminist Issues - Tập 34 - Trang 203-222 - 2016
Elizabeth A. Yu, Edward C. Chang, Tina Yu, Sarah C. Bennett, Erin E. Fowler
In the present study, we examined for gender differences in meaning in life (viz., presence of and searching for) and interpersonal expectancies (viz., positive and negative) as additive and interactive predictors of depressive symptoms in a sample of 117 male and 132 female college students. We found that meaning in life accounted for a significant amount of variance in depressive symptoms for bo...... hiện toàn bộ
Promotional Opportunities: How Women in Corrections Perceive their Chances for Advancement at WorkFeminist Issues - Tập 27 - Trang 53-66 - 2010
Cassandra Matthews, Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Melvina Sumter
Utilizing a theoretically derived sample, selected women who worked in corrections were interviewed in order to better understand what barriers women thought most impeded their success in moving up the organizational ladder. This work rests on the qualitative case study methodology. Three major themes emerged from interviews. Women believed that their chances for promotion within corrections were ...... hiện toàn bộ
Son preference and educational opportunities of children in China— “I wish you were a boy!”Feminist Issues - Tập 22 - Trang 3-30 - 2005
Wendy Wang
Gender bias in family formation, such as sex selected-abortion, imbalance of the sex ratio, child abandonment, and sibling size/order in relation to fertility is well documented in China. Much less is known about continued gender bias after birth in relation to children's status inside the family. In particular, there is a relative scarcity of research on the impact of the parental son preference ...... hiện toàn bộ