Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship · July 20, 2023
Purpose: The authors propose that the lessons learned by women business owners in Saudi Arabia during the pandemic can provide a model of strategic engagement for gender, work and organizations moving forward, where the acknowledgment of women's dual roles ...
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Journal ArticleTransnational Corporations · December 18, 2020
Previous studies have argued that, relative to local firms, multinational firms may have an “outsider's advantage” in hiring women. Using a large data set of executives in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in a region with some of the lowest r ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Review · October 1, 2020
We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by other similar men. Correcting these beliefs increases men's (costly) willingness to help ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Compass · December 1, 2018
This article examines the individual and societal explanations for the persistence of the hijab as a conservative cultural norm in persistently religious and culturally conservative communities. Analyzing data from 300 hijab-wearing women in Egypt and 198 ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
While women’s university graduation rates currently exceed those of men in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, women’s labor force participation has remained stagnant. To understand the causes of this increase in women’s higher education and what kee ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
González offers an analysis of the cultural constraints in both Western and Middle Eastern contexts which have shaped the various realities and challenges for women pioneers in media. In this contribution, the author catalogues women’s entries into the Uni ...
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Journal ArticleDeviant Behavior · February 1, 2016
In a majority Muslim context, where most college students are raised religiously and appear outwardly to conform to social norms in terms of dress and religious ritual, which college students are most likely to report that, in fact, they consider themselve ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Criminology · October 1, 2014
U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) Study data of homicides by far-right extremists and arsons and bombings by environmental and animal rights extremists suggest that compared with men, relationships are catalysts for women’s involvement in domestic terro ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion · June 1, 2011
The meaning of traditional and alternative measures of religiosity in a majority Muslim context is examined using the Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS). Specifically, this article reports a test of whether traditional religiosity measures are useful i ...
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