Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsGender, Stereotype Threat and Mathematics Test ScoresMing Tsui, Xiao Y. Xu, Edmond VenatorProblem statement: Stereotype threat has repeatedly been shown to depress women’s scores on difficult math tests. An attempt to replicate these findings in China found no support for the stereotype threat hypothesis. Our math test was characterized as being personally important for the student participants, an atypical condition in most stereotype threat laboratory research. Approach: To evaluate the effects of … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 16 Aug 2011 · 8,815 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Three Dimensional Role of Education for Women EmpowermentYilikal Muche EngidaEducation is the most essential prerequisite for any person and a constitutional right. It helps the person minimize inequality and plays a central role in human development that influences the overall growth of the social economy. The empowerment of women is the key mechanism for achieving gender equality, which is apprehended as meaning that individual' obligations, freedoms and opportunities do … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 17, Issue 1 · 16 Mar 2021 · 9,339 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGender Tendency of Russian Political Activity from the Perspective of JurisprudenceNadezhda N. Tarusina, Elena A. IsaevaThe article Russian women is considered as a subjects of constitutional and administrative law and studies different characteristics of their political activity: Conservation of patriarchal tendency as precondition of actual inequality of men and women in the political sphere; formal indices of women's political activity in the Soviet times, their quantitative and qualitative reduction during perestroika and in contemporary times; … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 12 · 3 Jan 2015 · 6,619 accessesView PDFCite