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CAWT Carers : Caring for individuals with a learning disability: Findings from a research study
McDowell, Joanne; Mawhinney, Sonia (Praxis Care Group, 2007) -
Comparing the Views of Students, Parents, and Teachers on the Emerging Notions of Relevance of Education
McDowell, Joanne; Živoder, Andreja; Tolomelli, Alessandro (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016-05-19) -
A discourse of caring: A case study of male nurses’ discourse and identity construction in the United Kingdom and New Zealand
McDowell, Joanne; Lazzaro-Salazar, Marina; Marra, Meredith (Routledge, 2020-10-06)Despite aims for gender equality in the workplace, certain occupations continue to be categorized as suitable for one gender or another. This entrenched division of labour is arguably linked to traditional gender roles and ... -
Does gender matter? A cross-national investigation of primary class-room discipline.
McDowell, Joanne; Klattenberg, Revert (2018-04-06)Fewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening gender achievement gap between girl and boy ... -
Doing Being A Primary School Teacher: Does Gender Matter?
McDowell, Joanne (2018-03-19)Think back to your early childhood days in primary school. Now I know for some of you this may be farther back than you may want to think about, but please bear with me. When you think of those care-free days, were you ... -
‘If you're a male primary teacher, there's a big “why are you doing that? What is wrong with you?”’ Gendered expectations of male primary teachers: The ‘double bind’
McDowell, Joanne (2023-12-01)The underrepresentation of men in non‐traditional fields of work is often attributed to essentialist gendered beliefs that associate such roles exclusively with women. This phenomenon is not limited to any specific country ... -
Masculinity and Non-Traditional Occupations : Men’s Talk in Women’s Work
McDowell, Joanne (2015-04-28)Occupation segregation is a persistent aspect of the labour market, and scholars have often researched what happens when women and men enter into what are seen to be ‘non-traditional’ work roles for their sex. Research on ... -
Men’s language in non-traditional jobs : the case of nursing
McDowell, Joanne (2009) -
Men’s Talk in Women’s Work: Doing Being a Nurse’
McDowell, Joanne (Routledge, 2017-08-21) -
Size Acceptance: A Discursive Analysis of Online Blogs
Davenport, Kate; Solomons, Wendy; Puchalska, Sylvia; McDowell, Joanne (2018-09-02)Dominant discourses of “fatness” and “fat people” have implications for physical and mental health. Although alternative discourses such as “size acceptance” exist, there has been little consideration of the ways in which ... -
Talk in feminised occupations: exploring male nurses' linguistic behaviour
McDowell, Joanne (2015-12-03)It is widely accepted amongst scholars that gender is socially constructed. Gender identity is not something one has but does, and language is one resource that is crucial when constructing, maintaining and performing one’s ... -
Who can tell me what the product actually means, and Kate’s got the right answer-ish, let’s just tweak it…” Follow-up strategies in the U.K primary school classroom: Does teacher gender matter?
McDowell, Joanne (2019-05-14)Jobs are rarely seen as gender neutral but built on gendered stereotypes as to what they involve, and the gendered characteristics assumed needed to perform them. Despite an increase in the number of women entering ‘male’ ...