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Meanings of Women's Agency: Improving Measurement in Context
Qutteina, Yara; James-Hawkins, Laurie; Al-Khelaifi, Buthaina A.; Yount, Kathryn M. ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Decades of research has been conducted to understand the processes that under gird women's empowerment and one of its core components-women's agency. However, few inroads have been made into the study of how these processes ... -
The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women’s Role Conflict in Qatar
James-Hawkins, Laurie; Qutteina, Yara; Yount, Kathryn M. ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)Social norms in patriarchal countries in the Middle East are changing at differing rates. In Qatar, expectations about education have shifted, and women’s participation in higher education is normative. However, women’s ...