Browsing Research Units by Subject "Gender"

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    • Challenging gender norms: women’s leadership, political authority, and autonomy 

      Lari, Noora; Al-Ansari, Mohammad; El-Maghraby, Engi ( Emerald , 2022 , Article)
      Purpose: In patriarchal settings, cultural barriers continue to influence women’s participation in positions of leadership and political authority. This paper aims to explore these findings in light of the theoretical ...

    • Competence and Electability: Exploring the Limitations on Female Candidates in Qatar 

      Shockley, Bethany ( Routledge , 2018 , Article)
      Attitudes about women’s expertise can play a role in limiting their access to influential public spaces, including elected government positions. In the Arab Gulf, women remain underrepresented in electoral politics. This ...

    • Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana 

      Rahman, Md Mizanur; Salisu, Mohammed ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Article)
      Labour migration in the context of South-South migration is generally conceived as a multidimensional process that comprises three distinct subprocesses: emigration, immigration, and return migration. There is growing ...

    • Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control 

      Trung Le1, Kien; Diop, Abdoulaye; Wittrock, Jill; Al-Emadi, Darwish; Elawad, Elmogiera ( Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved , 2014 , Article)
      Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require ...

    • The Gender-Pay Gap and the Family in the Gulf: Root Causes, Implications and Policy Response 

      Al-Ahmadi, Hala ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Despite the remarkable progress in women's status in countries of the Gulf gender equality remains unfulfilled. According to evidence, the Gulf has been underperforming on the arena of women's economic participation, ...