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Download fileWomen making choices: an empirical study leading towards a feminist and grounded theoretical understanding of the achievement of women undertaking a personal development course
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posted on 2018-08-31, 13:38 authored by Elaine E.M. RobinsonThis is a study of women attending a personal development course entitled Women
Making Choices held at an Adult Education Department of a Higher Education Institute.
This study is located within a feminist and grounded theoretical framework (Glaser and
Strauss, 1976). The study argues that a complexity exists in Women Making Choices
because whilst some women were making choices others were constrained in their
capacity to make choices. Women Making Choices is therefore a complex paradox
because barriers and tensions associated with women's choices inhibit women's actions.
The study includes a background literature search which sets a social, political,
demographic and educational context. The empirical work is based on a quantitative
survey of fifty-eight women including qualitative analysis of interviews of thirty-two of
the women. [Continues.]
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