Search Results for Woman Scientist

... find evidence supporting the third. Family constraints on women scientists’ careers generally appear to be weak. but become acute when they have children. Family Migration Geographic Mobility Female Scientist Woman Scientist Academic Woman References Ahem N.C. , & Scott E.L...

... H.E. ( 1990 ). Science as Social Knowledge . Princeton : Princeton University Press . Money J. , & Ehrhardt A.A. ( 1972 ). Man and Woman, Boy and Girl: The Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University...

... Donald ( 1969 ). Principles of Demography . New York : John Wiley and Sons . Boserup Ester ( 1970 ). Woman’s Role in Economic Development . London : Allen and Unwin Ltd . Boulding Elise ( 1972 ). Women as Role Models in Industrializing Societies: A Macro-System...

... to be a woman or a man; if it did not, reviewers and editors would complain, and readers would be puzzled. Although there is much variety in Demography, my topic is this shared culture-what we take for granted as we try to understand or predict demographic behavior. As I read, I tried to take the stance...

... the 1920s and confirm that nonmarital fertility has become an increasingly substantial component of overall U.S. fertility 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 White Woman Black Woman Hispanic Woman Nonmarital Birth Formal Marriage References Akerlof G.A...

... . Mahler S. ( 1999 ). Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of El Salvadorans . American Behavioral Scientist , 42 , 690 – 719 . 10.1177/00027649921954426 Massey D.S. ( 1990 ). Social Structure, Household Strategies, and the Cumulative Causation of Migration . Population...

... scientists, par- ticularly the economists and demog- raphers. In the recent decades it has be- come a problem of growing concern also to the planners and policy makers throughout the developing countries from Tunisia to Japan. Most of the studies on human fertility behaviour tend to indicate that the problem...

... are related to policy content; 16 to policy initiative and implementation; 47 to policy evaluation; and 13 to policy philosophy. The social scientists identified thirteen barriers which obstruct them from undertaking the needed research. Nine of the same barriers were named by the demographers. Barriers...

... for a different class of models in which a choice among alternatives is treated as a function of the characteristics of the alternatives, rather than (or in addition to) the characteristics of the individual making the choice. We believe that many problems of interest to demographers and other social scientists...

...-1939. This trend puzzled. many social scientists and 1 Jose L. Vazquez, "The Demographic Evolu- tion of Puerto Rico" (unpublished doctoral dis- sertation, The University of Chicago, 1964), Chapter V. J See for example, Jose L. Janer, "Population Growth in Puerto Rico and its Relation to Time Changes...

... and Health Surveys, U.S. counties, and nonhuman species. We show that even the simplest and least accurate variant has a median error of only 0.09 births per woman over 2,400 fertility schedules, suggesting accurate TFR estimation over a wide range of demographic conditions. We anticipate that this framework...

... discrimination and race-based social stratification. However, advances in molecular genetics have afforded opportunities for natural and social scientists to study race using new tools and perspectives that do not necessarily serve to reify race but instead attempt to better explain its many dimensions...

...Diane Coffey; Reetika Khera; Dean Spears Abstract The premise that a woman's social status has intergenerational effects on her children's health has featured prominently in population science research and in development policy. This study focuses on an important case in which social hierarchy has...

... are exempt from attack. In one editorial he attacks "leader classes, academicians, thinkers and states- men and when one hundred Nobel Prize winners called attention to the population problem, the scientists were likened to "monstrous mathematical ani- mals the same scientists who gave us the dreadful arms...

... and that are of consequential magnitude. Empirical social scientists drawing inferences about gender dynamics from the daughter/divorce association have relied on implicit assumptions about dynamics of selection into live birth (Dahl and Moretti 2008 ; Mammen 2008 ; Morgan et al. 1988 ; Spanier and Glick 1981...

... that a woman who has planned a pregnancy will be more highly motivated to seek early prenatal care to ensure a highly successful outcome (Rosoff, 1985), more concerned about the well-being of the fetus, and less reluctant to adopt what may be major changes in life style to increase fetal well-being. Women...

... groupings and to include situational and attitudinal factors in our model. We find that those characteristics of a young woman’s parental family that reflect the availability of parental resources tend to decrease the chances of a marriage during the early teens. Chances of marrying appear to decrease...

... simulations. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1984 1984 Total Fertility Rate Migrant Status Seasonal Migration Migrant Child Migrant Woman References Bean F. D. , King A. G. , & Passel J. S. ( 1983 ). The Number of Illegal Migrants of Mexican...

... and type . The relationship between partner attributes and the choice between formal and informal coupling is also considered. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1991 1991 Union Formation Consensual Union Formal Marriage Puerto Rican Woman Legal Marriage References...

... concerns-frustrated love and thwarted marriage- and not by the day-to-day managing of (in Bongartian terms) the aggregate potential of 15.1 children per woman. When the partners had triumphed in the marital contest, "they lived happily ever after and had many children." Because of this prejudice in our...