Female aid and development workers: how is gender a factor in their work?
Female aid and development workers: how is gender a factor in their work? Context I have previously written two posts having to do with the male-female differences in our survey responses. Check here and here for these posts. I turn now to the results from our specific questions about the impact of gender. Two questions Which of these four factors is the most important in influencing how we see ourselves: race/ethnicity/cultural status, social class/relative wealth and power, gender or age? Which of those four factors is the most important in influencing how others perceive and react to us? Certainly every one of these factors is critically important for all of us no matter where we are in the world or what our occupation might be. Indeed, that is a basic truism in the social sciences. Though Max Weber was referring more narrowly to wealth and power when he first used the term, his concept of “life chances” can…
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