Gender And Cultural Factors Associated
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facts on gender and tobacco - World Health Organization
www.who.intcontrol weight. Low self-esteem is associated with smoking among girls, and available evidence from some developed countries shows that girls have lower self-esteem than boys. Tobacco control strategies must recognize that boys' and girls' decisions to start using tobacco are influenced by different cultural, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors.
Empowering Women: Four Theories Tested on Four …
www.democracy.uci.eduof cultural modernity is the single most important explanation across all aspects of gender equality with socioeconomic factors and institutional design factors exerting influence on one or two aspects. Historical legacy factors fail to show up as important explanatory factors for any aspect of gender equality.
Perceptions of gender roles: a case study
centaur.reading.ac.ukbound by what is strictly anatomical. However, gender can be explained as cultural, referring to the social categorisation into men/masculine and women/feminine (Oakley, 1985). Gender can be further understood as the roles, attitudes, attributes and behaviour associated with and/or assigned to each sex (Hatchell & Hatchell, 2007).
Questions about culture, gender equality and development ...
www.oecd.orgshaped by culture. Gender identities and gender relations are critical aspects of culture because they shape the way daily life is lived in the family, but also in the wider community and the workplace. Gender (like race or ethnicity) functions as an organizing principle for society because of the cultural meanings given to being male or female.
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO POOR ACADEMIC …
repository.out.ac.tzSocial, economic and cultural forces affect learning and thus school achievement (Rothstein, 2000). A great deal of research on the determinants of school achievement has centred on the relative effects of home-and school-related factors, for instance, most findings have suggested that family background is an