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Women firefighters' strategies for advancement in the fire service: Breaking down barriers in gender-based occupations
(2013-12)
This dissertation examines the barriers female firefighters face trying to advance through the ranks and the strategies they use to overcome these barriers. Despite the fact that women have been employed as career firefighters ...
Effects of Gender and Gender Role on the Financial Literacy of College Students
(Oklahoma State University, 2013-07-01)
The financial literacy of young adults has been studied extensively. Specifically, the focus of much of the literature has been on college students and their overall financial decision making ability. A concern has arisen ...
Medicine and Morality: the Use of Rhetoric in Victorian Marriage and Child Rearing Manuals
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
During the Victorian era, many changes occurred due to industrialization and political upheaval. At a time when the young were moving away from parental supervision to large cities for employment opportunities, the Victorians ...
Faith development, dogmatism, gender, and the management of marital differences
(2011-12)
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Influence of gender, years in retirement, and future time perspective on psychological well-being for retirees
(2011-12)
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How social networks influence female students' choices to major in engineering
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study examined how social influence plays a part in female students' choices of college major, specifically engineering instead of science, technology, and math. Social influence may show ...
From Bates To Bush: The New Slasher Film
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
This essay suggests that recent film criticism and genre scholarship neglects the historical and theoretical connection between so-called "Torture Porn" and the 1980s slasher film. The creation of this altogether new generic ...
Grid/group study of gender perceptions of the culture of the Oklahoma Civil Air Patrol
(2011-12)
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Observed Attachment and Self-reported Affect
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
This study explored the impact of males' and females' adult attachment styles on their affective flexibility and negativity during couple conversations. Couples were observed in order to analyze the degree of secure and ...