This qualitative study explores male nurses’ negotiation of masculine gender identities in the nontraditional work of registered nursing. Few registered nurses in the United States are men, and men leave the profession within the first four years after graduation at twice the rate of women. This study builds on previous work by seeking to understand why male nursing graduates of an institution formerly for women only, made the decision to become nurses, how they decided to attend a women’s college over a more gender balanced campus experience, and in what ways they negotiate gender identities in the configuration of nursing practice careers. Though others have cautioned that active recruitment of men into nursing could be detrimental to women nurses’ careers, the current nursing shortage has changed the terrain in health care creating a structural need for both women and men. In contrast to previous studies, which focused on elucidating mechanisms in the workplace that encouraged men nurses’ rapid ascendancy in the profession, this study explores socialization processes encountered in both educational and workplace settings to gain understanding of the meaning these experiences hold for male nurses in the negotiation of masculinity in a predominantly women’s profession. By uncovering the salient meaning that socialization into the professional culture of nursing has for male nurses, an understanding can be gained of how best to recruit and retain men in the profession. Gender theory provides the lens with which structures of gendered educational and work relations among participants in this study were examined. Data were collected from thirty participants using multiple methods, and analyzed using an emergent themes approach. Participants identified themselves as competent, compassionate caregivers. Although relationships with female nursing colleagues were undergirded by horizontal reciprocity, tensions arose when male physicians communicated greater trust with male nurses. Interactions with nursing managers were regarded with caution. The male nurses in this study perceived that they were expected to respond with stoicism in crises, work excessive overtime, and were assigned the most complicated cases. They did not feel they could voice reservations about accepting complicated case assignments as did their female colleagues.

Wu, Shunan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-56). / Abstract also in Chinese. / "Collective Labor Supply, Household Production and Intra-household Allocation in Urban China" --- p.i / Abstract --- p.i / 論文摘要 --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / List of Tables --- p.v / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- Literature Review --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- China´ةs evolving labor market --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Gender earnings gap in the labor market in urban China --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Male and female labor force participation --- p.7 / Chapter 2.4 --- Intra-household allocation --- p.10 / Chapter 2.5 --- The collective model of labor supply --- p.14 / Chapter III. --- Theoretical model and empirical specification --- p.18 / Chapter IV. --- Data and empirical results --- p.24 / Chapter V. --- Conclusion --- p.43 / Appendix --- p.46 / References --- p.49

The basic research question this thesis addresses is how the secondary status of Bangladeshi women is reinforced through household labour. It is argued that gender relations and housework shape each other. To develop this, it examines the degree of participation of women in different areas of housework and family decisions. The thesis further explores whether the autonomy of women coming from the traditional Bangladeshi family set-up has increased as a result of their immigration to Canada and their exposure to Canadian family values. This is done by a comparison of the family experiences of Canadian and Bangladeshi women. Finally, it is suggested that age, position in the family and length of immigration are the indices of the autonomy of Bangladeshi women in Canada.

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Lui, Ching Wu Lake. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-225). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background of the research --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Site --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objective and significance --- p.12 / Chapter 1.4 --- Research Questions --- p.15 / Chapter 1.5 --- Map of the thesis --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1 --- Prevalent Theoretical Explanation on Household Division of Labor --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2 --- Theoretical Framework of this research --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Research Methodology --- p.39 / Chapter 3.1 --- Sample --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2 --- Recruitment of Couples and Data Collection --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3 --- Issues in the Interviews --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4 --- Data Analysis --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Does Spousal Difference in Economic Resources vary Housework Distribution? --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1 --- Nature of housework --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2 --- Who does what and more? --- p.57 / Chapter 4.3 --- Earning and Housework Division --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Gender Ideology and Household Division of Labor --- p.73 / Chapter 5.1 --- Overview of Couples´ة Gender Ideology --- p.73 / Chapter 5.2 --- Couples with Traditional Gender Ideology and Household Division of Labor --- p.75 / Chapter 5.3 --- Sparks of Egalitarianism in Couples --- p.94 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Gender Strategies of Couples in Housework Division --- p.102 / Chapter 6.1 --- Husbands´ة strategies --- p.103 / Chapter 6.2 --- Women´ةs compliance --- p.109 / Chapter 6.3 --- Women´ةs resistance --- p.117 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- "Children, In-laws and Doing Gender of Couples" --- p.125 / Chapter 7.1 --- How do children escalate the doing gender of husbands and wives? --- p.125 / Chapter 7.2 --- How do parent-in-laws and parents escalate the doing gender of husbands and wives? --- p.144 / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Undoing gender: Willing househusbands and Women's liberation? --- p.165 / Chapter 8.1 --- The Context of Undoing Gender --- p.165 / Chapter 8.2 --- Comparing Househusbands and Housewives: Is gender still relevant? --- p.167 / Chapter 8.3 --- Experimenting a Househusband's life: How to undo gender? --- p.177 / Chapter Chapter 9: --- Conclusion --- p.196 / Chapter 9.1 --- Key Findings --- p.196 / Chapter 9.2 --- Implications of the study --- p.201 / Appendix 1: Labor Force Participation Rates by Sex --- p.204 / "Appendix 2: Labor Force Participation Rates at Specific Ages by Sex, 1991," --- p.205 / Appendix 3: Household division of labor of married couples in 1987，1993 and 1995 --- p.206 / Appendix 4: Relative Share of Housework of Economically Active Men and Women --- p.207 / Appendix 5: Interview Schedule --- p.208 / Bibliography --- p.213

A research report presented to the Department of Social Work School of Human and Community Development, Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, July 2017 / Women have previously been discouraged from pursuing careers in the mining industry given the nature of the work in the field and the physical strength needed to do the work. However, literature has reported an increase in the number of women penetrating the field in recent years (Benya, 2009; Singer, 2002). New legislative frameworks in South Africa, such as the Mining Charter of 2002 (amended 2010) and the Mineral Petroleum Resources Development Act have made provisions for females to be absorbed into the field of mining, but this has not gone without challenges. This study thus sought to gain in-depth understanding of the experiences of underground female mine workers and demystify gender barriers that affect the functioning of women within the mining sector. The study was qualitative in nature and adopted a case study design to richly understand the phenomenon. The study used semi-structured interviews to collect data. Ten participants and two key informants were selected using purposive sampling technique. Data collected from participants was analysed using thematic analysis, in conjunction with the literature reviewed. The study addressed the social and human needs of female mine workers. It was found that, the mining industry has not been progressive in adequately addressing the unique needs of women who work underground. The study was essential in unravelling the experiences of female mine workers and thus made recommendations that can be used to introduce workplace appropriate interventions to be implemented to ensure that underground women mine workers are well accommodated within the industry. / XL2018

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology), 2016 / This research contributes to an understanding of how female mineworkers make sense of themselves and how gender identities are constructed in mining. Mine work has for a long time been seen as allowing for particular masculine self-formations and mineworkers embodying specific mining masculine subjectivities. The entrance of women in South African mines from 2004 and their allocation into occupations that were previously exclusively reserved for men is a significant challenge and a disruption to masculine subjectivities and the occupational culture. This thesis illustrates what transpires when socially constructed gender boundaries are crossed. This is what the women are doing with their entry into underground mining. For ten and a half months, between 2011 and 2012 I worked in the mines and lived with mineworkers. During this period I completely submerged myself into the life world of mine workers to get an in-depth understanding of the ways female mineworkers understand themselves and navigate the masculine mining world. I managed to get the subtle, nuanced, instantaneous and unnoticeable ways which produce and reproduce the fluid and contested gender identities. Drawing on insights from a range of feminist theorists and feminist readings of theories I argue that the construction of gendered identities in mining is an ongoing embodied performative process which is articulated in fluid ways in different mining spaces within certain structural, relational and historical constraints. The thesis presents a typology outlining four categories of femininities; mafazi, money makers, real mafazi and madoda straight, that are performed and produced underground by women mineworkers. At home these performances are unstable and disrupted as women attempt to reconcile their role as mothers, wives and their workplace 2 identities as underground miners with their notions of femininity. This necessitates a renegotiation of gender ideologies, performances and identities. In this thesis I succinctly present the fluid, multiple, contradictory and contested processes involved in constructing gendered identities; above ground, underground, and at home. Drawing from this evidence I conclude that women do not approach the workplace or labour process as empty vessels or act as cogs-in the mining machines but are active agents in the construction of their gender identities. The key elements I use to analyse gendered identities are; gendered spaces, embodiment, social and material bodies (as sites of control, resistance and agency) and performativity. I argue that all of these converge and are central to the construction of gendered identities. Key Words: Women in mining, gendered identities, subjectivities, femininities, masculinities, gender performances, embodiment, gendered spaces, gender transformation. / GR2017

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:16:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 24 / Nenhuma / Essa tese teve o propósito de realizar um estudo sob o ponto de vista educativo com base no processo de trabalho cooperativo entre mulheres artesãs vinculadas à Cooperativa Regional do Sul (Coopresul) na cidade de Pelotas, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. A proposta foi abordar as trajetórias de vida de algumas mulheres artesãs, abarcando especialmente suas vivências no mundo do trabalho. Dessa forma, essa investigação se propôs a contribuir com a produção teórica do mundo do trabalho e da educação, incorporando vivências de artesãs organizadas em uma cooperativa. Procuramos dialogar com as vivências das mulheres artesãs por meio de um referencial teórico que aborda suas experiências, contribuindo, assim, para a reflexão sobre as trajetórias femininas. Sendo assim, a teoria feminista (tendo como principais referenciais as obras de Marcela Lagarde, Michelle Perrot e Heleieth Saffioti) e a economia solidária foram parceiras nesse percurso. A metodologia utilizada nessa investigação teve como pano de fund

Activities and production among ethnographic Arctic peoples were primarily divided by gender. This gendered division of labor also extended to a spatial segregated pattern of the household in some Arctic cultures. Other cultures had a more gender-integrated spatial pattern of the household. There have been very few archaeological studies of gender in the Arctic, and even fewer studies of gendered use of space. In this thesis, I evaluated the existence of this gendered use of space in pre-contact Northwest Alaska. I also evaluated the existence of discrete activity spaces. I drew from both ethnoarchaeology and gender/feminist archaeology to both construct my hypotheses and interpret my results. I used ceramics, which were likely primarily made by and used by women, as a proxy for women's movement within the house. Ceramics are abundant and well-preserved in many Northwestern Alaskan sites, and are well suited for a robust spatial analysis. In addition to ceramics, I also evaluated the spatial density of other female artifacts, like ulus or scrapers, and male artifacts, like harpoon points or adzes, in order to further test the existence of gender specific use of space. I tested this using the HDBSCAN (Hierarchical Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) algorithm in Python, a programming language. HDBSCAN identifies discrete clusters of artifacts, as well as the persistence, or stability, of the cluster. Birnirk and Thule era (1300-150 BP) house features from Cape Espenberg, Alaska, were used to test these expectations. Based on the results of my spatial analysis, I did not find any evidence of gender specific use of space, nor did I find specific activity areas within the house. My findings are not necessarily an indication that gender-segregated use of space does not exist among pre-contact Northwest Alaskan people: I just did not find evidence supporting it. This could be, in part, due to issues of sample size, house size, and the role of secondary and post deposition processes in shaping the ceramic assemblage and distribution. While ceramics did cluster, they mostly clustered in the entrance tunnel of the house. This is likely the result of cleaning, storage, or other depositional processes. When ceramics did cluster in the main rooms, clustering was idiosyncratic. Male and female artifacts were not spatially segregated. Female artifacts were slightly more likely to cluster than male artifacts. Both sets of artifacts were generally in the same area as the ceramic clusters. While this study did not find evidence of gendered use of space, it still is an important contribution of addressing questions of gender in the Arctic. In addition, it is a valuable methodological contribution, using a clustering algorithm that previously has not been frequently used by archaeologists.

Bibliography: leaves 438-482 / vii, 482 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Asian Studies, 1994