The Women’s Land Army (1944): Vita Sackville-West’s Non-Fictional Wartime Writing by Christine REYNIER

“…However, her fiction and her non-fiction remain underexplored by academic criticism even as her novels The Edwardians (1930), All Passion Spent (1931), her award-winning poem The Land (1926), her travel writing (Twelve Days in Persia, 1927) and her work on her garden, Sissinghurst, remain quite popular.This paper means to focus on a little-known work of non-fiction Vita Sackville-West published towards the end of the Second World War, The Women’s Land Army (1944). …”
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Le partage inégal des « tâches ménagères » by Roland Pfefferkorn

“…Thanks to the feminists, and their criticism of the domestic division of labour, we are now aware that domestic work is done mostly by women, and we know that this division of work is not natural. …”
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La popularización del saber y la « generación de las modernas » : revistas y espacios femeninos en la España de entreguerras by Matilde Eiroa

“…The examination of both public spaces allows discovering the role of cultural institutions and the gender association in women instruction. It allows, as well, verifying to what extent the women magazines contributed to the popularization of culture and scientific knowledge between the thriving women of those times. …”
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Building Resiliency in Community Development: The Experiences of Women in Rural Communities in Ghana by Charles Gyan, Jacob Kwakye

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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…I wish then to confront these voices with the ones of the working-class women poets who depict a different image of the factory girls: they were concerned with the conservative values of the family and the nation that factory girls could convey, in spite of their degraded condition. …”
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Retrospective of Human Rights Activities of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations by I. V. Periv

“…Emphasis is placed on the main areas of activity of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUHO), which are aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of Ukrainian women, strengthening their social status and participation in public and political life. …”
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Examining the Challenges Faced by Women Employees in Tourism Industry in Kabale District. by Kamugisha, Serestine

“…From objective three, the study indicated measures to solve the challenges women employees are facing in the tourism industry in Kabale district including regular training of the new workforce (female) on a regular basis is the only remedy available, need to create a more inclusive and equitable work environment, anti-discrimination policies, leadership and management training, flexible work arrangements, diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, education and skill development.…”
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The Parliamentary Behaviour of Women and Men MPs: Equal Status, Similar Practices ? by Karine Rivière-De Franco

“…Less than 5 % in the 1980s, 22 % of the members of the House of Commons in the British Parliament are now women. This paper studies women MPs’ contribution to parliamentary work during the first eighteen months of the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government formed in May 2010 by examining the range of tasks they are involved in through various activities such as Prime Minister’s Question Time, Early Day Motions, Adjournment Debates, Private Members’ Bills, votes and rebellions. …”
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Women and Money: Unique Issues – Money Issues Across the Life Cycle by Diann Douglas, Martie Gillen, Lynda Spence

“…Most families depend on a woman’s income to help support the household. Some women are co-breadwinners while others are the only source of income. …”
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Women and Money: Unique Issues – Money Issues Across the Life Cycle by Diann Douglas, Martie Gillen, Lynda Spence

“…Most families depend on a woman’s income to help support the household. Some women are co-breadwinners while others are the only source of income. …”
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Challenges for women's leadership in organisations, from the perspective of judge and prophetess Deborah by J.A. Triana Palomino, I.D. Toro-Jaramillo, S.M. Giraldo Sánchez

“…These biases have uncritically been assimilated into the culture, including the work environment, and to overcome them, it is necessary to create scenarios of individual and collective confrontation, in order to recognise women’s capacity to exercise authority and power. …”
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Resignifying the Unexpected: Career Shocks and its Impacts on the Trajectories of Executive Women by Anna Paula Visentini, Camila Vieira Müller, Angela Beatriz Scheffer

“…Career shocks, in addition to revealing opportunities, signaled restrictions in women’s career contexts.…”
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Native American Women as Palimpsestic Apparitions in Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu’s The Revenant by M. Elise Marubbio

“…It highlights the violence bred of racism that weaves throughout the history of westward expansion, undercuts the genre’s tendency toward white privilege through multi-lingual narratives, and centers a counter-narrative focused on Indigenous families and women. Building from and reflecting on my earlier work in Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film, this essay reads the film’s representation of Native/First Nations women as palimpsestic apparitions of the Celluloid Indian Maiden trope that are both progressive and problematic in their ability to counter white hegemonic narratives of power and ongoing racism. …”
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Challenges faced by women oncologists in Africa: a mixed methods study by Doreen Ramogola-Masire, Reshma Jagsi, Matthew Jalink, Verna Vanderpuye, Nwamaka Lasebikan, Miriam Mutebi, Nazik Hammad, Susan Msadabwe, Laura Carson, Dorothy Chilambe Lombe, Zainab Doleeb, Haimanot Kasahun Alemu, Nesrine Chraiet, Naa Adorkor Aryeetey, Zainab Mohamed, Nazima Jaffer Dharsee, Sitna Mwanzi, Khadija Warfa, Emmanuella Nwachukwu, Edom Seife Woldetsadik, Hirondina Vaz Borges Spencer

“…Solutions to improve the experience of women oncologists were identified and discussed, including greater work flexibility and mentorship opportunities.Conclusion Women oncologists in Africa experience many of the challenges that have been previously identified by studies in other regions. …”
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Evidence-based association work: The extended code of ethics of the “Verein für Socialpolitik” by Alexander Kriwoluzky, Aderonke Osikominu, Doris Weichselbaumer, Georg Weizsäcker

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Social policy of the Scandinavian countries in relation to women victims of domestic violence by R. M. Sadykov, N. L. Bolshakova

“…Many countries are taking various measures to prevent and mitigate this problem. The scientific work presents the experience of solving such a problem in the Scandinavian countries, where an effective model of social policy is implemented in relation to women victims of marital violence. …”
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Critical discourse analysis on gender relations: women's images in Sasak song by Khirjan Nahdi, Usuludin Usuludin, Herman Wijaya, Muh. Taufiq

“…The image is understood through the process and mechanism of work of critical discourse analysis. This study aims to reveal the image of women in the Sasak song by discovering the tendency of social construction in gender relations between men and women based on the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. …”
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Women’s emancipation and Middlebrow culture in the Ljubica P. Radoičić’s novelistic oeuvre by Barać Stanislava

“…Relying on the previous research related to the life and work of the author, and Jelena Milinković’s theoretical explanations of interwar women’s (popular) novels, the paper initially indicates the atypical position of each of the mentioned novels within the current novel production at the time of publication. …”
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: The Secret World of Women as Seen by Men by Adriana Kaplan, Babucarr Cham, Lamin A. Njie, Ana Seixas, Sandra Blanco, Mireia Utzet

“…Although the practice is generally confined to the secret world of women, it does not mean that men cannot be influential. …”
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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Possible Catches and Correct Management in Young Women by Chiara Di Tucci, Daniele Di Mascio, Michele Carlo Schiavi, Giorgia Perniola, Ludovico Muzii, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici

“…In our work we present four cases of suspected pelvic masses. …”
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