Putting On and Taking Off the Capulana: A Grounded Theory of How Mozambican Women Manage Gender Oppression

Tomm-Bonde, Laura; Schreiber, Rita; MacDonald, Marjorie

doi:10.1177/23333936211051701

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“…As Stevano (2022: 1848) in a related context suggests, in Mozambique 'the dominant form of employment entails engagement in multiple occupations including wage work, non-wage work, and cash-earning activities'. This affects women disproportionately as they are also expected to take on the majority of any housework and care work within their extended family (Urdang, 1983;Tomm-Bonde et al, 2021). And academic staff usually support both their nuclear and their extended family such that their incomes have to pay for many people beyond their own immediate family in different ways, for example for other family members' education, for healthcare etc.…”

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Doing a PhD in a Low-Income Country: Motivations and Prospects

Griffin

2023

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The purpose of this article is to analyse the gendered motivations of students to undertake doctoral research in a low-income country (LIC), Mozambique. Most research on PhD student motivation is done in high-income countries where the drivers for doing a PhD are quite different from those of people living in LICs. Drawing on original empirical research in the form of semi-structured interviews with PhD students from Mozambique, and utilizing the concepts of 'altruistic' and 'self-concerned' motivations, this article argues that context is a powerful determinant of motivation. The findings of the research highlight the need for scholarships as a major driver for undertaking a PhD in an LIC. Further, PhD students' motivations, unlike those in high-income countries where the self is at the heart of decisions to do a PhD, include altruistic motives such as the desire to serve one's country, institution, community, and people as well as having a voice in the public sphere. These altruistic motivations are more important than the more self-referential factors such as 'intrinsic interest in the subject' and 'self-fulfillment' that dominate the literature from high-income countries. This implies that donor countries, the common suppliers of scholarships for PhD students in LICs, need to ensure that scholarships are adequate to enabling PhD students from LICs to complete their degrees both in terms of duration of scholarship and in terms of amount. Without this completion rates are likely to be slow and low. The article calls for more research on this issue in LICs.

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Doing a PhD in a Low-Income Country: Motivations and Prospects

Griffin

2023

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“…At that point, we needed a broader question to capture the complexity of the women’s experience. Therefore, the research question evolved toward “How do women handle gender oppression in Mozambique?” 22 …”

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Assessing and Achieving Quality in Qualitative Research: Clues for Researchers in Training

de la Cuesta Benjumea

2024

Invest. Educ. Enferm.

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This article deals with the particularities of the quality of qualitative research, under the double lens of valuing it and ensuring it. While achieving the quality of qualitative research concerns only those who have opted for this methodology, assessing it is everyone's business because researchers in training will encounter, in the literature reviews, qualitative studies on which they must reflect and estimate their quality. Appreciating the quality of a research work is a complex activity as it is situated within a context and conducted by individuals who use any of the means available to do so. The means they use are criteria as evaluation guides and criteria checklists. For researchers in training, I suggest some guiding criteria to evaluate qualitative publications and ensure quality during the research process, key issues that they must address

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Grounded Theory and Social Psychology Approach to Investigating the Formation of Construction Workers’ Unsafe Behaviour

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Feng

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Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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There have been limited studies analyzing the causes of construction workers’ unsafe behaviour from the social psychology perspective. Based on a Grounded Theory approach, this study first identified and defined seven coded categories related to workers’ dangerous behaviour on construction sites. The original qualitative data were obtained from individual site interviews conducted with 35 construction professionals. These main categories were found connected to workers’ status of safety awareness and sense of danger, which affected the type of unsafe behaviours, i.e., proactive, passive, or reactive behaviour. By further integrating social cognitive psychology theories into workers’ behavioural decision-making process, the formation mechanism framework and diagram were developed to describe construction workers’ unsafe behaviours based on the dynamic process of balancing the individual desires and perceived safety risks. This study advances the body of knowledge in construction safety behavioural management by performing in-depth theoretical analysis regarding workers’ internal desires, activated by external scenarios and intervened by a personal safety cognition system, which could result in different motivations and various behavioural outcomes. It is argued that safety cognition serves as a mediated moderation system affecting behavioural performance. Practical suggestions on developing a proper safety management system incorporating safety education in guiding construction workers’ site behaviours are presented.

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Putting On and Taking Off the Capulana: A Grounded Theory of How Mozambican Women Manage Gender Oppression

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Doing a PhD in a Low-Income Country: Motivations and Prospects

Doing a PhD in a Low-Income Country: Motivations and Prospects

Assessing and Achieving Quality in Qualitative Research: Clues for Researchers in Training

Grounded Theory and Social Psychology Approach to Investigating the Formation of Construction Workers’ Unsafe Behaviour

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