Physical Characteristics Of Women Research Articles

The impact of callanetics exercises on some biomotor skills and physical characteristics of women with osteoporosis aged 45–55 years

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the value of callanetics exercises in enhancing some aspects of the health fitness of women with osteoporosis and to determine how callanetics exercises affect elderly women with osteoporosis in terms of enhancing certain aspects of health fitness. The sample included women with osteoporosis of the Department of Physiotherapy at Baghdad Hospital, aged 45–55 years, during the period from 1/3/2022 to 9/8/2022. The callanetics exercises applied produced a decrease in the percentage of fat, with a decline in the values of hip and thigh circumferences.

Kadın Çalışanların Otel Mutfaklarında İstihdam Edilememe Nedenleri

When assessed in terms of gender roles, cooking and the other tasks related to kitchen are regarded as the duty of women. It is seen that these duties attributed to women by the society are mostly performed by women in private areas. However, it is observed that when cooking and other Works which are related to the kitchen in public areas, are usually performed by men. From the researches in the literature the purpose of this, designed in an exploratory style, is to investigate the reasons why the women are/aren’t employed in Professional kitchens in the hotels. As a result of the analysis of qualitative data gathered by semistructured interview technique in April-May 2017 from 60 cooks working in the five-star resort and the city hotels in the Mediterranean region, women's employment is usually not preferred in the professional kitchens in the hotels. Reasons why women are not employed in professional kitchens in the hotels are grouped under women not fit for work in professional kitchens, inadequate professional kitchen experience of women, gender roles-related work and day-off problems, male dominant environment in professional kitchens, women's character/personality/emotional and etc. features, women's gender roles, career barriers that women face before they are hired, physical characteristics of women, absence of career goals related to professional kitchens heading. Findings have been discussed with the results of studies done by different researchers on key concepts covering the thesis topic in the current literature. Today, there are many studies that examine the general employment problems women face in the work life. However, existence of the limited/indirect studies of the specific employment problems faced by female cooks in work life point to the original value and the theoretical contribution of the thesis. Notifying the inadequacy of women employment in Professional kitchens in the hotels to senior managers, human resources managers and chefs in the hotels and underlining the basic problems expressed by the chefs are in fact over table will be beneficial in reaching the desired equality (in work life in general and in the professional kitchens in particular) of men and women. In the future; to contribute to the literature, investigation of why fewer women are employed in city hotels than at resort hotels is suggested.

No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone

Putative associations between sex hormones and attractive physical characteristics in women are central to many theories of human physical attractiveness and mate choice. Although such theories have become very influential, evidence that physically attractive and unattractive women have different hormonal profiles is equivocal. Consequently, we investigated hypothesized relationships between salivary estradiol and progesterone and two aspects of women’s physical attractiveness that are commonly assumed to be correlated with levels of these hormones: facial attractiveness (N = 249) and waist-to-hip ratio (N = 247). Our analyses revealed no compelling evidence that women with more attractive faces or lower (i.e., more attractive) waist-to-hip ratios had higher levels of estradiol or progesterone. One analysis did suggest that women with more attractive waist-to-hip ratios had significantly higher progesterone, but the relationship was weak and the relationship not significant in other analyses. These results do not support the influential hypothesis that between-women differences in physical attractiveness are related to estradiol and/or progesterone.

Women and Men of the Past, Present, and Future: Evidence of Dynamic Gender Stereotypes in Ghana

People represent social groups by their trajectories through time, producing dynamic stereotypes. To the extent that these stereotypes derive from observations of group members’ behaviors in their typical roles, change in the roles of women and men over time should fuel beliefs that the sexes adopt traits associated with their new roles. Thus, earlier studies have found that stereotypes about the past, present, and future traits of women and men are consistent with beliefs about changes in their social roles. To examine such dynamic stereotypes in an African context, 150 participants from Ghana rated the likelihood of gender-stereotypic personality, cognitive, and physical characteristics of women or men of the past, present, or future in their society. Among the major findings were perceptions of increases over time in women’s masculine characteristics and men’s feminine characteristics. Also, both sexes increased in masculine and feminine cognitive characteristics. Comparison of these Ghanaian findings with those obtained earlier from five other countries revealed both similarities and differences.

Physical Characteristics of Women With Severe Pelvic Girdle Pain After Pregnancy

Descriptive cohort study. This study aims to further elucidate the differences in physical characteristics of women with severe pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PGP). There is increasing interest in pelvic girdle pain (PGP). To our knowledge, this is the first study on a large population of patients with severe PGP, after pregnancy, based on high cutoff scores on diagnostic PGP tests. Two hundred five patients were selected from the outpatient clinic of a rehabilitation center. Patients were divided in 3 inclusion groups based on the total number of positive scores on 5 diagnostic tests; i.e., active straight leg raise test, posterior pelvic pain provocation test, long dorsal sacroiliac ligament test, and hip abduction and adduction strength tests. These inclusion groups were related to the data on trunk strength test, general provocation tests, Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (QBPDS) and activities of daily living. A typical pattern of PGP emerges from this study. The mean group score on the active straight leg raise, posterior pelvic pain provocation, and long dorsal sacroiliac ligament tests became higher when more than 3 inclusion tests were positive. Hip abduction and adduction strength became lower with more positive tests. The QBPDS score was overall high and significantly higher for 5 positive tests compared with 3 and 4 positive tests. This shows that the number of positive tests, the individual score on the diagnostic tests, and the QBPDS could all be an indicator for severity of PGP. Among the general pain provocation tests, both the passive hip flexion test and the upper and middle sacral thrust test scored high. The maximal isometric strength of trunk muscles was below the 10th percentile compared with women without complaints and was even less for 5 positive inclusion tests. It is confirmed that there is a typical order for difficulties with daily activities for PGP patients as follows (most difficult first): standing still, cycling, walking, sitting, and lying. The study shows that the level of severity in PGP can be adequately assessed by a combination of specific tests.