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Maria Evagorou; Blanca Puig; Dury Bayram; Hedvika Janeckova – European Union, 2024
Despite significant advances in STEM education and a growing emphasis on gender equality in research and policy circles, women across Europe remain under-represented in STEM careers and among graduates majoring in STEM related fields. This report aims to consolidate current research findings, policy analyses and best practices in relation to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Foreign Countries
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Minagawa, Yuka – Social Forces, 2013
Guided by Durkheim's classic theory of suicide, this article examines suicide trends and determinants in Eastern European countries for the period of 1989-2006, with particular attention given to the association between postcommunist social change and suicide mortality. I find that countries characterized by more drastic structural change…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Suicide, Social Systems
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Flanagan, Constance A.; Martinez, M. Loreto; Cumsille, Patricio; Ngomane, Tsakani – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
The authors use examples of youth civic engagement from Chile, South Africa, Central/Eastern Europe, and the United States--and also emphasize diversities among youth from different subgroups within countries--to illustrate common elements of the civic domain of youth development. These include the primacy of collective activity for forming…
Descriptors: Evidence, Social Class, Adolescents, Foreign Countries