Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms
Despite evidence about the importance of education and its role in bridging the gender gap, attitudes and behaviors that devalue women based on gender persist, with female teachers continually being victimized by gender violence. The current study's objective is to describe the lived experience...
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| author | Eusebius Small Silviya Pavlova Nikolova Shamsun Nahar Bernadette Ombayo |
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| description | Despite evidence about the importance of education and its role in bridging the gender gap, attitudes and behaviors that devalue women based on gender persist, with female teachers continually being victimized by gender violence. The current study's objective is to describe the lived experiences of Kenyan women teachers and how gender intersects with their well-being, including health, education, and societal norms, using social scripting theory. The study stands out because in our academic literature, voices of women living in both urban and rural settings of Kenya are seldom acknowledged. Data were collected through two focus groups of 15 women. Focus group discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and coded using thematic analysis. The findings were grouped into five primary categories of women's experiential living, that is, dowry and early marriage, husband's polygynous marriages, marital rape and family planning, and HIV. The paper concludes that entrenched structural inequality disadvantages women, creating a gender wealth and economic gap. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e594033290aa4343abfb6fbf1c24022e2024-11-21T06:05:50ZengElsevierSocial Sciences and Humanities Open2590-29112024-01-0110101029Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural normsEusebius Small0Silviya Pavlova Nikolova1Shamsun Nahar2Bernadette Ombayo3School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, USADepartment of Social Medicine and Healthcare Organization, Medical University of Varna, Varna, 9002, 55 Marin Drinov str., Bulgaria; Corresponding author. Medical University of Varna, Varna, 9002, 55 Marin Drinov str., Bulgaria.Texas Woman's University, 304 Administration Dr, Denton, TX, 76204, USAUniversity of Memphis, School of Social Work, 208 McCord Hall, Memphis, TN, 38152, USADespite evidence about the importance of education and its role in bridging the gender gap, attitudes and behaviors that devalue women based on gender persist, with female teachers continually being victimized by gender violence. The current study's objective is to describe the lived experiences of Kenyan women teachers and how gender intersects with their well-being, including health, education, and societal norms, using social scripting theory. The study stands out because in our academic literature, voices of women living in both urban and rural settings of Kenya are seldom acknowledged. Data were collected through two focus groups of 15 women. Focus group discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and coded using thematic analysis. The findings were grouped into five primary categories of women's experiential living, that is, dowry and early marriage, husband's polygynous marriages, marital rape and family planning, and HIV. The paper concludes that entrenched structural inequality disadvantages women, creating a gender wealth and economic gap.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291124002262Social scriptReproductive healthFamily planningContraception useMarital rape |
| spellingShingle | Eusebius Small Silviya Pavlova Nikolova Shamsun Nahar Bernadette Ombayo Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms Social Sciences and Humanities Open Social script Reproductive health Family planning Contraception use Marital rape |
| title | Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms |
| title_full | Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms |
| title_fullStr | Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms |
| title_short | Female teachers' experiences: Unraveling the nexus of gender violence, health, education, and cultural norms |
| title_sort | female teachers experiences unraveling the nexus of gender violence health education and cultural norms |
| topic | Social script Reproductive health Family planning Contraception use Marital rape |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291124002262 |
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