The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of marital equity and sex role identity to the career commitment of black dual-career wives and to determine who does what in the family. Five research questions guided the study: a) What is the relationship of selected demographic variables (education, income, age and number of children) of husbands and wives to the career commitment of the wife? b) Is there a significant difference between husbands and wives and their commitment to pursue a career? c) Is there a Significant difference between husbands and wives in sex role identity and marital equity? d) Is there a correlation between the career commitment of wives and the extent to which marital equity exists? e) What is the relationship of sex role identity of husbands and wives to the career commitment of the wife? A sample of 200 dual-career couples were systematically selected from a predominantly Black sorority. The instruments used to collect the data were: Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), career commitment and marital equity scales (Nicola, 1980), and a demographic questionnaire. Data were analyzed using frequencies, means, percentages, correlation coefficients, analysis of variance, t-tests, and multiple comparisons. Study results indicated that while the couples' education and income were not significantly associated with the wife’s career commitment, wives were more educated. Although the number of children did not matter, the age of the oldest child was Significantly related to the mother's career commitment. The mean career commitment scores for husbands (41.03) and wives (41.61) indicated that partners shared similar attitudes about time and emotional investment in careers and family pursuits. Mean marital equity scores for husbands and wives revealed that wives did significantly more than husbands in the areas of household tasks and child care. Similarly, wives did most of the initiation for family communication and problem solving. Data supported equal sharing in decision-making (eg. vacations, relocation, financial matters). While couples' sex role identity scores were significantly different, they had no significant effect on the wife's career commitment. / Ed. D.

This dissertation explored perceptions of the link between religion and the feminization of poverty amongst research participants attached to the Johane Marange Church of Seke area in Zimbabwe. The study sought to explore whether the practices in the Johane Marange church exacerbated the feminization of poverty. A qualitative research approach was selected. Data included documentary sources, notes from observation, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. It is found that according to the research participants, some of the church’s traditions may drive the feminization of poverty in the area. In particular, the church’s stance concerning young women’s participation in higher education, people’s health-seeking behaviour, its own understanding of the causes of and treatment for HIV and AIDS, its encouragement of early age at marriage for women and support of the practice of widow inheritance all contribute to a deepening feminization of poverty / Development Studies / M. A. (Development Studies)

This dissertation explored perceptions of the link between religion and the feminization of poverty amongst research participants attached to the Johane Marange Church of Seke area in Zimbabwe. The study sought to explore whether the practices in the Johane Marange church exacerbated the feminization of poverty. A qualitative research approach was selected. Data included documentary sources, notes from observation, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. It is found that according to the research participants, some of the church’s traditions may drive the feminization of poverty in the area. In particular, the church’s stance concerning young women’s participation in higher education, people’s health-seeking behaviour, its own understanding of the causes of and treatment for HIV and AIDS, its encouragement of early age at marriage for women and support of the practice of widow inheritance all contribute to a deepening feminization of poverty / Development Studies / M. A. (Development Studies)

À partir d'une enquête par observation participante conduite au sein d’une grande entreprise de distribution, du siège social aux entrepôts, ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier la construction sociale des masculinités au et par le travail. L’histoire de Transfrilog est imprégnée d’une culture familiale forgée autour du management paternalisme des autodidactes du transport. Aujourd’hui devenu les cadres dirigeants de l’entreprise, la professionnalisation du secteur les oblige désormais à composer avec les jeunes diplômés issus des formations logistiques dont le style de management se détache des formes traditionnelles d’expression de la masculinité et de l’autorité. Dans ces conditions, comment la masculinité perpétue-t-elle son hégémonie ? La thèse s’attache à montrer que la capacité de la masculinité hégémonique à se (re)produire tient à son processus d’hybridation. La thèse montre par ailleurs la coexistence d’une pluralité de masculinités hégémoniques spécifiques à chaque filière (transport, logistique, fonctions supports) et qui sont hiérarchisées entre elles. Pour autant, la mobilisation autour d’un idéal viril propre aux injonctions productivistes et à l’intensification des tâches propose un référentiel commun aux hommes, au-delà des clivages de classe, de race et des différents métiers de la chaîne logistique. Aussi, et malgré la volonté de certains dirigeants d’amorcer une réflexion sur l’égalité professionnelle, l’hybridité de la masculinité hégémonique n’interroge qu’à la marge une répartition genrée des emplois et l’inégale échelle de valeur entre les différentes formes de masculinités. / From a participatory observation survey conducted in a logistics company, from head office to warehouses, this work aims to study the social construction of masculinities at and through work. The history of Transfrilog was built through a family culture forged around the paternalistic management of self-taught employees. Today, having become the company's senior executives, the professionalization of the sector now compels them to deal with young graduates from supply chain training whose management style stands out from the traditional forms of expression of masculinity and authority. In these conditions, how does masculinity perpetuates its hegemony? The thesis aims to show that the capacity of hegemonic masculinity to (re)produce itself is due to a process of hybridization. The thesis also shows the coexistence of a plurality of hegemonic masculinities specific to each sector (transport, logistics, support functions) and which are hierarchized between themselves. However, the mobilization around a virile ideal specific to the productive injunctions and to the intensification of the tasks proposes a common reference to men, beyond divisions of class, race and different trades of the logistic chain. Also, and despite the desire of some leaders to initiate a reflection on professional equality, the hybridity of hegemonic masculinity asks only marginally a gendered distribution of jobs and the unequal scale of value between different forms of masculinities.

Buscou-se nesta pesquisa entender as relações entre gênero e meio ambiente no cotidiano das mulheres catadoras de materiais recicláveis de uma cooperativa do município de São Paulo. Para tanto, procurou-se compreender essa relação a partir dos espaços de moradia e trabalho das catadoras. Como fundamentação teórica foi adotada a Divisão Sexual do Trabalho e a Justiça Ambiental. O método utilizado foi o Estudo de Caso Estendido e a técnica de coleta de dados primários a Entrevista Narrativa. Foram entrevistadas dezesseis mulheres catadoras cooperadas. Para a interpretação dos resultados seguiu-se os postulados da Análise de Narrativa. Este estudo mostra evidências da situação de injustiça ambiental nos espaços de moradia e trabalho das catadoras entrevistadas. Além disso, demonstra que a dupla jornada de trabalho dessas mulheres leva a uma injustiça ambiental por gênero na catação. Também foi observada a relação entre a maternidade e o ingresso e permanência das catadoras na atividade. A análise da dupla jornada de trabalho das mulheres permitiu identificar três trajetórias distintas entre as catadoras entrevistadas: catadoras estruturais, catadoras conjunturais ocasionais e catadoras conjunturais por conveniência. A partir das diferenças e similaridades observadas entre os três grupos de mulheres catadoras percebeu-se que fatores como a trajetória familiar, vulnerabilidade social e segregação espacial urbana foram os principais motivos que as levaram à catação. Verificou-se, ainda, que as mulheres estão mais expostas aos riscos ambientais justamente pela dupla jornada de trabalho. Dessa maneira, considerou-se que a presença dos fatores de injustiça ambiental na dupla jornada de trabalho caracteriza o que foi denominado neste estudo de dupla jornada de injustiça ambiental. A jornada reprodutiva associada aos riscos ambientais ligados à habitação e a jornada produtiva referente aos riscos ocupacionais e à precariedade no trabalho. / This thesis aimed understand the relationship between gender and environment among women waste pickers of a cooperative of recyclable materials in São Paulo. To understand this relationship, the concept of Environmental Justice was chosen as framework, showing the disproportional dynamic of environmental conflicts that affect the most marginalized and vulnerable people, marked with social inequality due to class, race and gender. In addition, studies discussing the Sexual Division of Labor were also used, considering that women are particularly disadvantaged because of their double burden, when the reproductive work is free and invisible and the productive work is devalued. The Extended Case Method was used as methodology and the women cooperative was observed for three years. The data collection was made using the narrative interview technique and sixteen women waste pickers were interviewed. The data analysis used narrative analysis postulates. The results showed that the women waste pickers who are spatially segregated and residents of Jardim das Flores slum are exposed to multiple risks: geomorphological risks of slipping and washouts; proximity of high-voltage power lines and; low infrastructure conditions linked to sanitation and garbage collection. Due their reproductive shift, the women spend more time in home and consequently in the slum, rising their vulnerability of those risks. Further, the wish to conciliate the double burden was also responsible for their work as waste pickers, with a female perpetuation in the scavenging activity. Then, the women are more exposed to occupational risks and the burden of environmental inequality in recycling chain. In conclusion, women waste pickers are exposed to a double burden of environmental injustice: one related to habitational risks and one to precariousness of labor and occupational hazards. Thus, there is a interweaving of social inequalities historically imposed by patriarchal logic to keep the foundations of the current economic system, and the black women, householder and poor are who bear the environmental damage to maintain that system.

Les cellules dendritiques (DCs) détectent les particules virales et présentent les antigènes viraux afin d’organiser la réponse immunitaire. La réplication virale dans les DCs induit une réponse immune cytosolique. Comment les DCs tolèrent les virus afin de maintenir leur intégrité fonctionnelle est inconnu. Les DCs sont organisées en sous-populations distinctes d’un point de vue ontogénique. Nous avons observé que le virus du VIH et de la grippe infectaient préférentiellement les DCs CD1c+ par rapport au DCs CD141+ et aux pDCs. La réplication de ces virus au sein des DCs CD1c+ est essentielle afin d’établir une activation efficace des lymphocytes T CD8+ et d’assurer une détection cytosolique. Les DCs CD141+ et les pDCs, quant à elles, répondent aux virus exogènes. L’étape de fusion virale virale est constitutivement réduite dans les DCs CD141+ et les pDCs en comparaison des DCs CD1c+. La petite GTPase RAB15 est exprimée sélectivement dans les DCs CD141+ et les pDCs et contribue à la résistance de ces deux sous-populations de DCs au VIH et à la grippe. La résistance sélective des sous-populations de DC à l’infection virale pourrait représenter un mécanisme de tolérance afin d’augmenter la réponse antivirale. / Dendritic cells (DCs) sense viral particles and present viral antigens to induce immune responses. Viruses also replicate in DCs, engaging cytosolic immune responses. How DCs tolerate viruses to ensure functional integrity is unknown. DCs are developmentally organized in distinct subsets. We find that HIV and influenza preferentially infect CD1c+ DCs over CD141+ DCs and pDCs. Replication in CD1c+ DCs was essential for efficient CD8+ T cell activation and cytosolic sensing, while CD141+ DCs and pDCs responded to exogenous virus. Viral fusion was constitutively reduced in CD141+ and pDCs compared to CD1c+ DCs. The small GTPase RAB15 expressed selectively in CD141+ and pDCs contributed to the resistance. Selective resistance of DC subset to viral infections may thus represent a tolerance mechanism to maximize antiviral responses.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isis Campos Camarinha.pdf: 1014918 bytes, checksum: d531ae0f7413604987b03dc6ce19b213 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The general theme of this research is the analysis of the dependent societies through the perspective of the long duration and through the identification of the main contradictions that move on the reproduction of dependency and, along with it, underdevelopment. Having as a theoretical paradigm the concepts of modes of production and social economic formation , passing by the primitive accumulation problematic and, finally, the count of dependency theory, according to Theotônio dos Santos/Marini s conceptions, the thesis of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein establish our Dissertation. Capitalist International relations are divided between core and periphery, as well as capitalism is divided between capital and labor. Hence, peripheral nations present, in opposition to core nations, a kind of development composed by historical and structural contradictions that insert them in dependency state. O objective of this Dissertation is to analyze and identify these contradictions meanwhile discussing also about why dependency achieves concrete-theoretical status, not being merely a scientific-verbal tool. The analyzed period goes since XVI century until XX century, but just pointing out that we not do a historical perspective and yes a theoretical perspective / O tema geral da pesquisa é a análise da formação das sociedades dependentes a partir da perspectiva da longa duração, a partir da identificação das principais contradições que põem em movimento a reprodução da dependência e, ao lado dela, do subdesenvolvimento. Tendo como paradigma teórico os conceitos modo de produção e formação econômico social , passando pela problemática da acumulação primitiva e, finalmente, o enquadramento da teoria da dependência, segundo as concepções de Marini/dos Santos, as teses de Fernand Braudel e Immanuel Wallerstein fundamentam nossa dissertação. As relações Internacionais capitalistas são polarizadas entre nações centrais e periféricas assim como o capitalismo é polarizado entre capital e trabalho. Por isso, as nações periféricas apresentam, em oposição às nações centrais, uma forma de desenvolvimento composta de contradições históricas e estruturais que os insere na condição da dependência. O objetivo desta Dissertação é analisar e identificar estas contradições procurando discorrer também acerca do por que a dependência atinge status teórico-concreto, não sendo apenas um recurso verbal-científico. O período analisado engloba desde o século XVI até o século XX, mas com a ressalva de que não fazemos uma retrospectiva histórica, mas sim teórica

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo principal analisar a apropriação do desenvolvimento geográfico desigual brasileiro pelas empresas de Contact Center. A constituição e expansão das operações brasileiras de teleatendimento estão atreladas às privatizações do setor de telecomunicações, com a aquisição das empresas estatais por grandes transnacionais, e a consequente terceirização dos serviços a partir do final da década de 1990. A análise da divisão territorial do trabalho das operações de teleatendimento revela a presença de forças centrípetas, com a manutenção do controle nas principais metrópoles brasileiras, e centrífugas, com a dispersão das unidades de produção para os centros urbanos não metropolitanos e para a região Nordeste. O uso seletivo da densidade técnica e informacional do território permite às empresas a incorporação lucrativa de áreas onde os recursos, principalmente, capital e trabalho, são desvalorizados. / The present work intends to analyze the exploitation of Brazilian uneven geographical development by Contact Center companies. Since the end of the 1990s, the establishment and expansion of Brazilian operations telemarketing has been linked to the privatization of the telecommunications sector, with the subsequent acquisition of state enterprises by large transnational corporations, with has resulted in the outsourcing of services. The corporations territorial division of labor shows the presence of both centripetal forces, with maintenance control in major Brazilian cities, and centrifugal forces, with the dispersion of production facilities in non-­ metropolitan and urban centers in the Northeast. The selective use of technical and informational density allows companies to lucratively incorporate areas where resources, especially labor and capital, are devalued.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirela Ferraz.pdf: 3799078 bytes, checksum: 2159534f033b038d5ce8819c3a615b7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis aims to analyze the process of construction of the trajectories of women's lives mediated by the Social Welfare s Politic in the Centre of Social Welfare Refer-ence - CRAS Casa Verde, within the northern zone of São Paulo. We assume that the job of the social worker has the privilege of approaching the everyday life of those subjects. We understand that their life are conditioned by the determinants of explo-ration of the world of the work and gender oppression in the relations of production and social reproduction. To investigate on this reality is a way to strengthen these women, their families and the territory as a political struggle space. Therefore, our hypothesis focuses on understanding the mediation of social welfare women can gestate/ organize their everyday life. The research on the critical theoretical frame-work and the use of the methodology of oral history will be guided, therefore, seek to give visibility to the experience of policies subject and meanings constructed by them. Our political ethical position is to advocate the recognition of a gender perspec-tive by the Social Welfare s Politic / Esta tese de doutorado tem como objetivo analisar o processo de construção das trajetórias de vida das mulheres mediadas pela Assistência Social, no Centro de Referência de Assistência Social (Cras) Casa Verde, no território da Zona Norte de São Paulo. Partimos do pressuposto de que o trabalho do assistente social tem o privilé-gio de se aproximar do cotidiano de vida dessas sujeitas. Entendemos que as traje-tórias de vida das mulheres são condicionadas pelos determinantes de exploração do mundo do trabalho e de opressão de gênero, nas relações de produção e repro-dução social. Pesquisar sobre essa realidade é um caminho para fortalecer essas mulheres, suas famílias e o território enquanto espaço político de luta. Portanto, nossa hipótese centra-se em que as mulheres conseguem gestar/organizar sua vida cotidiana pela mediação da Assistência Social. A pesquisa pauta-se no referencial teórico-crítico e no uso da metodologia da História Oral, pois busca dar visibilidade às experiências e aos significados construídos pelas sujeitas políticas. Nosso posici-onamento ético-político é defender o reconhecimento da perspectiva de gênero pela Política da Assistência Social

Orientador: Anselmo Nogueira / Resumo: A variação no tamanho floral entre espécies vegetais interfere diretamente no grau de heteranteria e grau hercogamia dentro da flor, e pode favorecer a divisão de trabalho entre as anteras, diminuindo o conflito por pólen entre planta e polinizador. Neste trabalho, nosso objetivo principal é investigar como o tamanho floral modifica o processo de polinização e estratégia reprodutiva em duas espécies com tamanhos florais contrastantes: Chamaecrista desvauxii var. latistipula e Chamaecrista nictitans. Nossa hipótese é de que a morfologia das flores maiores de C. desvauxii var. latistipula com androceu evidentemente heteromórfico favoreça a divisão de trabalho, e a segurança reprodutiva nessas flores ocorra via anteras de polinização; enquanto que a morfologia das flores menores de Chamaecrista nictitans não favorece a divisão de trabalho entre as anteras e que a segurança reprodutiva e o conflito por pólen sejam superados pelo predomínio da autopolinização. Nossos resultados indicam que não ocorre divisão de trabalho entre os conjuntos das anteras em ambas as espécies, embora o heteranteria seja visível em C. desvauxii. Independente do tamanho das flores os diferentes conjuntos de anteras não diferem em atração visual para as abelhas. Já em flores menores de C. nictitans nossos resultados indicam a quebra da heteranteria e da hercogamia em um sistema mais generalista quando comparado a flores maiores de C. desvauxii var. latistipula. As flores pequenas de C. nictitans dependem ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The variation in floral size between plant species directly interferes with the degree of heteranthery and degree of hercogamy within the flower and may favor the division of labor between the anthers, reducing the conflict between plant pollen and pollinator. In this work, our primary objective is to investigate how the floral size modifies the pollination process and reproductive strategy in two species with contrasting floral sizes: Chamaecrista desvauxii var. latistipula and Chamaecrista nictitans. We hypothesize that the morphology of the larger flowers of C. desvauxii with evident anther dimorphism favors the division of labor, and reproductive security in these flowers occurs via pollination anthers. Alternatively, the morphology of the smaller flowers of C. nictitans does not favor the division of labor between the anthers and that reproductive security and pollen conflict are overcome by the predominance of self-pollination. Our results indicate that there is no division of labor between the anther sets in both species, although heteranthery is visible in C. desvauxii. Regardless of the size of the flowers, the different anther sets do not differ in visual attraction for the bees. In smaller flowers of C. nictitans, our results indicate the breakage of heteranthery and hercogamy into a more general system when compared to larger flowers of C. desvauxii. The small flowers of C. nictitans depend on auto pollen to achieve reproductive success, the same does not occur wi... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre