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1. Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective

Author:
Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes
Source:
Journal of rural studies 2021 v.86 pp. 16-23
ISSN:
0743-0167
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; agricultural economics; livelihood;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... This article combines perspectives from feminist agricultural economics and agrarian feminist Marxism to conceptualize the spatial process of translocality from a gender perspective arguing for the resurrection of the household as a unit of study in the context of translocality. Engendering the emerging field of translocal livelihoods research requires understanding the household both as a process ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.018

2. Can a monologue-style ECA more effectively motivate eHealth users in initial distress than textual guidance?

Author:
Scholten, Mark R.; Kelders, Saskia M.; Van Gemert-Pijnen, Julia E.W.C.
Source:
Heliyon 2021 v.7 no.3 pp. e06509
ISSN:
2405-8440
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; distress; motivation; telemedicine;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Stress is a prevalent issue amongst patients with chronic conditions. As eHealth interventions are gaining importance, it becomes more relevant to invoke the possibilities from the eHealth technology itself to provide motivational acts during experiences of stress as to enhance adherence to the intervention. Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA's) also known as ‘robots on screen’ can potentially pr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06509

3. “I’m F---ing Moving to Iowa:” Gender and Candidate Image in the 2020 Iowa Caucus

Author:
Winfrey, Kelly L.
Source:
TheAmerican behavioral scientist 2021 v.65 no.3 pp. 558-573
ISSN:
1552-3381
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; scientists; surveys; Iowa;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... The 2020 presidential race started in Iowa, like it has since 1972. The slate of candidates was the most diverse ever and included six women. This study examines the relationship between candidates’ gender, image, and support among Iowa voters. Iowans have access to candidates that other voters do not, so their perceptions provide unique insight into the construction of candidate images. This stud ...
DOI:
10.1177/0002764220981121

4. Selecting and Ranking Individualized Treatment Rules With Unmeasured Confounding

Author:
Zhang, Bo; Weiss, Jordan; Small, Dylan S.; Zhao, Qingyuan
Source:
Journal of the American Statistical Association 2021 v.116 no.533 pp. 295-308
ISSN:
1537-274X
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; malaria; models; occupations;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... It is common to compare individualized treatment rules based on the value function, which is the expected potential outcome under the treatment rule. Although the value function is not point-identified when there is unmeasured confounding, it still defines a partial order among the treatment rules under Rosenbaum’s sensitivity analysis model. We first consider how to compare two treatment rules wi ...
DOI:
10.1080/01621459.2020.1736083

5. Good debts, bad debts: Microcredit and managing debt in rural south India

Author:
Carswell, Grace; De Neve, Geert; Ponnarasu, Subramanian
Source:
Journal of agrarian change 2021 v.21 no.1 pp. 122-142
ISSN:
1471-0358
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; anthropology; debt; India;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper engages with debates around microcredit, once a development success story, but now much critiqued. Arguing that microcredit can only be understood within the wider context of debt, we draw on ethnographic material from two villages in Tamil Nadu, to examine how microcredit through self‐help groups sits within a broader context of indebtedness among the rural labouring classes. We descri ...
DOI:
10.1111/joac.12365

6. How does gender affect the perceived security of land and property rights? Evidence from 33 countries

Author:
Feyertag, Joseph; Childress, Malcolm; Langdown, Ian; Locke, Anna; Nizalov, Denys
Source:
Land use policy 2021 v.104 pp. 105299
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; death; divorce; land policy;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Secure tenure over women’s land and property rights is increasingly considered an important means to promote economic, social and even environmental outcomes. Where gender-unequal tenure security exists, promoting women’s land and property rights is therefore a key component of SDGs 1.4.2 and 5.a.1, which call for gender-equal access and security of resources, including housing and land. Both deve ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105299

7. Gender mainstreaming urban waste reduction in European cities

Author:
Buckingham, Susan; Perello, Michelle; López-Murcia, Javier
Source:
Journal of environmental planning and management 2021 v.64 no.4 pp. 671-688
ISSN:
1360-0559
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; carbon dioxide; waste reduction;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper contributes to gender mainstreaming and waste management literatures, which largely neglect the empirical dimensions of gender mainstreaming in environmental practices, and have a complete lacuna in waste management. Informed by an ecofeminist approach which argues that gender equality is necessary to achieve environmental sustainability, the paper, and its underpinning research, utiliz ...
DOI:
10.1080/09640568.2020.1781601

8. Choosing a Candidate: Traits, Issues, and Electability

Author:
Peacock, Cynthia; Dugger, Hannah; Fanelli, J. Knox; Harris, A. Jackson; McLelland, J. Bert; Richardson, Lauren A.
Source:
TheAmerican behavioral scientist 2021 v.65 no.3 pp. 540-557
ISSN:
1552-3381
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; politics; scientists; surveys; Iowa;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This research investigates the roles of issues, traits, and electability in the 2020 U.S. presidential nominating contest. These analyses utilize survey data gathered at political rallies in Iowa leading up to the caucuses and state and national news coverage. First, we identified the traits and issues respondents used to describe their support for a particular Democratic candidate over others. Ne ...
DOI:
10.1177/0002764220978458

9. Perceived parenting styles, thinking styles, and gender on the career decision self-efficacy of adolescents: how & why?

Author:
Situmorang, Dominikus David Biondi; Salim, Rose Mini Agoes
Source:
Heliyon 2021 v.7 no.3 pp. e06430
ISSN:
2405-8440
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; questionnaires; self-efficacy; Indonesia;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Career decision self-efficacy (CDSE), i.e., the ability to successfully make important career-related decisions, is influenced by perceived parenting styles, thinking styles, and gender. Thus, this non-experimental study examined the effects of these factors on the CDSE of 617 high school students in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to the measuring instruments (CDSE Scale-Short Form, Parental Author ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06430

10. Walk the (Gendered and Racialized) Line: Retrospective Consecration and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Author:
Bledsoe, Ashlee
Source:
TheAmerican behavioral scientist 2021 v.65 no.1 pp. 59-82
ISSN:
1552-3381
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; face; music; research; scientists;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Cultural consecration demonstrates the values of a field, and it is influenced by several different factors. Previous research on consecration in rock music has examined the impact of critical, professional, and popular legitimacy, as well as the gender of the performers, on the likelihood of albums being retrospectively consecrated. The study builds on and extends this research by examining the i ...
DOI:
10.1177/0002764220959686

11. What you say and what you do: Exploring the link between consumers’ perception of portion size norms and reported behaviour for consumption of sweets and crisps

Author:
Djupegot, I.L.; Hansen, S.; Lähteenmäki, L.
Source:
Food quality and preference 2021 v.92 pp. 104216
ISSN:
0950-3293
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; food quality; people; portion size; socioeconomics;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Portion size decisions are embedded in a complex system of individual, socio-economic, and environmental factors. The objective of this study was to explore consumers’ descriptive and injunctive portion size norms and how these norms are related to reported behaviour and further to psychological eating attitudes. The study includes data from two consumer samples (n = 1020). Respondents completed f ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104216

12. The level of exposure affects the arsenic urinary methylation profile of a population of children

Author:
Olmos, Valentina; Astolfo, María Agustina; Sassone, Adriana H.; Villaamil Lepori, Edda C.
Source:
Journal of hazardous materials 2021 v.415 pp. 125623
ISSN:
0304-3894
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; arsenic; creatinine; genetic polymorphism; genotype; methylation;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Differences in the As methylation capacity of Argentine children, exposed to different levels of As in drinking water were evaluated, considering the gender and the presence of the As3MT T860C gene polymorphism. Inorganic As (%IAs), monomethylated As (%MMA) and dimethylated As (%DMA), primary methylation index (PMI) and secondary methylation index (SMI) were evaluated and represented the As methyl ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125623

13. Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level Is Not Associated with Duration and Activity of Disease in Melanoma Patients

Author:
Tas, Faruk; Erturk, Kayhan; Oguz Soydinc, Hilal
Source:
Nutrition and cancer 2021 v.73 no.7 pp. 1126-1129
ISSN:
1532-7914
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; blood serum; carcinogenesis; electrochemiluminescence; melanoma;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Preclinical and epidemiological studies showed the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (vitamin D) and cancer development. The aim of the study was to evaluate serum vitamin D levels of melanoma patients and compare them with other malignancies and healthy controls. A total of 87 cutaneous melanoma patients from a tertiary cancer center were included in the study. Vitamin D levels were measure ...
DOI:
10.1080/01635581.2020.1784965

14. Environmental transparency and performance: Does the corporate governance matter?

Author:
Van Hoang, Thi Hong; Przychodzen, Wojciech; Przychodzen, Justyna; Segbotangni, Elysé A.
Source:
Environmental and sustainability indicators 2021 v.10 pp. 100123
ISSN:
2665-9727
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; economic crises; environmental performance; governance; humans;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper aims to understand how corporate governance can impact on environmental transparency and performance. We focus on firms possessing green patents because they are active in proposing new technologies helping to reduce human impacts on the environment. Based on a sample of 361 U.S. firms over the 2007–2016 period, our results show that the number of members in the board was not a factor t ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.indic.2021.100123

15. The role of women in the fight against corruption in Ghana

Author:
Kasser-Tee, Clara
Source:
Development in practice 2021 v.31 no.4 pp. 477-483
ISSN:
1364-9213
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; men; social benefit; women; Ghana;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This viewpoint discusses the role of women in the fight against corruption in Ghana. It argues that although there is no evidence that women in Ghana by their nature are less corrupt than men, gender parity presents an opportunity for women to be change agents in creating, nurturing, implementing, and enforcing systems, institutions, and values that sanction as well as disdain corrupt behaviour, p ...
DOI:
10.1080/09614524.2020.1856789

16. Food Skills: Associations With Diet Quality and Food Waste Among Canadian Parents

Author:
Carroll, Nicholas; Sadowski, Adam; Parizeau, Kate; von Massow, Michael; Wallace, Angela; Jewell, Kira; Ma, David W.L.; Buchholz, Andrea C.; Duncan, Alison M.; Chan, Brianne; Haines, Jess
Source:
Journal of nutrition education and behavior 2021 v.53 no.5 pp. 371-379
ISSN:
1499-4046
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; food quality; food waste; nutrition education;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... To examine the association between self-reported food skills and diet quality along with measured food waste among a sample of Canadian parents.Cross-sectional data from surveys to assess food skills, 3-day food records to assess the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2015, and food waste measured by household waste audits.Guelph-Wellington, Ontario.Parents (n = 130) with children aged 2–8 years.HEI-2015 ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jneb.2020.10.018

17. Impact of financial debt on borrower’s health based on gender

Author:
Chen, Gengxuan; Jia, Qinmin; Maskara, Pankaj K.; Williams, Albert
Source:
International journal of consumer studies 2021 v.45 no.3 pp. 423-440
ISSN:
1470-6423
Subject:
gender differences,   etc   ; credit; debt; females; mortgages;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This study investigated whether self‐reported impact of financial debt on health is different for women as compared with men. We found that female respondents are more likely to report that debt has affected their health. The results persisted when the analysis was performed on subsamples of employed individuals, married households and those with underwater mortgage (i.e., outstanding balance on m ...
DOI:
10.1111/ijcs.12632

18. What is the impact of rural bank credit access on the technical efficiency of smallholder cassava farmers in Ghana? An endogenous switching regression analysis

Author:
Missiame, Arnold; Nyikal, Rose A.; Irungu, Patrick
Source:
Heliyon 2021 v.7 no.5 pp. e07102
ISSN:
2405-8440
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; cassava; credit; farmers; regression analysis; Ghana;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper assesses the impact of access to credit from rural and community banks (RCBs) on the technical efficiency of smallholder cassava farmers in Ghana. The study employed the stochastic frontier, and endogenous switching regression models to estimate the technical efficiency, and the impact of RCB credit access, respectively, on a randomly selected sample of 300 smallholder cassava farmers i ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07102

19. Gender and generation in rural politics in Myanmar: a missed space for (re)negotiation?

Author:
Park, Clara Mi Young
Source:
TheJournal of peasant studies 2021 v.48 no.3 pp. 560-585
ISSN:
1743-9361
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; peasantry; politics; social justice; Myanmar;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The changes that have swept rural Myanmar, transforming landscapes and affecting livelihoods, have ignited rural politics and civil society and grassroot organizations' strategies to counter, resist, negotiate and adapt to these changes. Rural politics have centred on broad calls for agrarian and environmental rights and social justice that do not address women's rights, gender and generational ju ...
DOI:
10.1080/03066150.2020.1837778

20. Social Modeling and Eating Behavior—A Narrative Review

Author:
Suwalska, Julia; Bogdański, Paweł
Source:
Nutrients 2021 v.13 no.4
ISSN:
2072-6643
Subject:
gender,   etc   ; fruits; hunger; obesity; people; vegetable consumption;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Social modeling of eating is the adjustment of the amount of food eaten to the intake of the accompanying person. In this paper we provide a narrative review of literature on social modeling of eating with a particular focus on recent studies. Firstly, we describe the structure of a typical modeling experiment. Secondly, we present a variety of research in this field: experiments with various type ...
DOI:
10.3390/nu13041209