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Jamiah Riddick

RE: Week 1 Discussion

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Program of Study: My program of study is PHD in Forensic Psychology.

Social Problem: Gender inequality is among the most common social problems in the United States. It is a situation in which men and women are not treated equally. It is a result of differences in socially constructed gender roles (unicef, 2021). For instance, women tend to lag in wages as well as top leadership positions held.

Good topic and well written

Quantitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know that though there are advances that have been made during the women's movement, gender inequality is still a problem for the ladies that seek leadership opportunities in the defense sector. Comment by Patricia Loun: As I mentioned in the discussion this scenario works better as a qualitative study and I see that you labeled it qual so I am going to address it as such for changes needed for next week. Be sure to reverse the order in your next post.

Quantitative Research Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the wayhow females describe their experiences deal with gender inequality and how they perceive their lack of opportunity to achieve leadership roles.

See the scripts in Creswell and Creswell (2018) in the chapter on purpose statements. While this is not incorrect it could be stated in a more specific way to reflect the design and data collection you will need to use. See my edits

Quantitative Research Question:

How do ladies perceivedescribe the barrier to their professional advancement in the defense sector?

This creates a misalignment in your scenario. If this is the question you want to ask you would have to mention it in the purpose and problem. Those elements are more general. You can go back and change them to align with this question or change the wording here to match the problem and purpose.

How do ladies deal describe their experiences with with gender inequality? This one works with these edits

Qualitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know how gender equality in workplaces impacts people's mental health.

As a quantitative problem this could work. But we don’t use the term “how” for quantitative studies as the results of a quant study will not tell you how. Try “the extent that gender in(equality) impacts mental health”

Qualitative Research Purpose: The qualitative study aims at analyzingexamining how the extent that gender equality patterns in workplaces are connected with mental health

The terms you use in these elements reflect the design of the study. Assuming this to be a quantitative purpose statement. If you are interested in the “impact” of something on something else you usually test that by examining “differences between groups, treatments or conditions” in some outcome. If you are interested in the “relationship” between variables (correlations, connections), you test “the relationship between X and Y. this purpose statement is expressed as the later (correlational) but the problem is the former. I think changing the problem will be the better choice

Qualitative Research Question:

HowTo what extent are the patterns of gender equality at workplaces are related to psychological distress?

See my edits explained above. Also for alignment you need to be consistent, While psychological distress is an element of mental health issues they are not the same in terms of measurement. Eventually you will need to define this outcome variable as something that can be measured. (i.e. depression, anxiety, ptsd, etc).

References

Unicef. (2021). Gender Equality. Retrieved from https://www.unicef.org/gender-equality

Jamiah Riddick

RE: Week 2 Discussion

COLLAPSE

Program of Study: My program of study is PHD in Forensic Psychology.

Social Problem: Gender inequality is among the most common social problems in the United States. It is a situation in which men and women are not treated equally. It is a result of differences in socially constructed gender roles (unicef, 2021). For instance, women tend to lag in wages as well as top leadership positions held.

Quantitative Qualitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know that though there are advances that have been made during the women's movement, gender inequality is still a problem for the ladies that seek leadership opportunities in the defense sector.

Quantitative Qualitative Research Purpose: The purpose of this quantitativequalitative study is to understand how females describe their experiences with gender inequality and how they perceive their lack of opportunity to achieve leadership roles.

QuantitativeQualitative Research Question:

How do ladies describe their experiences with gender inequality?

The edits you made work for a qualitative study. If you are not sure what the difference is please see my announcement last week for additional chapters to read to help. It will be important to have a good understanding of each type as we go forward and refine these scenarios even more.

Theory or conceptual Framework:

The theory of benevolent sexism explains systematic oppression that has led to underrepresentation of ladies in the firms. The defense sector is similar to that which exists in large corporation. Sexism tends to be an underlying basis to comprehend hostile and benevolent reactions as well as decision in the workplace. Dominant beliefs and gender rules are based on social expectation which makes it hard for the ladies to take up the leadership roles in the defense sector. I actually think the theory of institutionalized sexism is the better theory for both scenarios. The theory of benevolent sexism is used more to SUPPORT oppression of women.

QualitativeQuantitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know the extent that gender in(equality) impacts people's mental health in workplaces.

QualitativeQuantitative Research Purpose: The qualitative quantitative study aims at examining the extent that gender equality patterns in workplaces impacts an individual’s mental health.

QualitativeQuantitative Research Question:

To what extent are the patterns of gender equality at workplaces related to poor mental health?

Theory or conceptual Framework:

Institutional sexism is among the theories which can be applied in the qualitative study. It refers to the gender discrimination brought out in policies as well as practices of firms for instance governments, corporations, public and financial institutions. These actions brings out the fact that sexist beliefs that ladies are inferior to and thus they tend to be less capable in comparison to men (Capodilupo, 2021). This theory is used to bring out the reason why gender inequality still exist despite the female participation in the workforce.

Good theory I would go with this one.

References

Unicef. (2021). Gender Equality. Retrieved from https://www.unicef.org/gender-equality

Jamiah Riddick

RE: Week 3 Discussion

COLLAPSE

Program of Study: My program of study is PHD in Forensic Psychology.

Social Problem: Gender inequality is among the most common social problems in the United States. It is a situation in which men and women are not treated equally. It is a result of differences in socially constructed gender roles (unicef, 2021). For instance, women tend to lag in wages as well as top leadership positions held.

Quantitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know that though there are advances that have been made during the women's movement, gender inequality is still a problem for the ladies that seek leadership opportunities in the defense sector.

This is really a social problem not the research problem. The research problem should align exactly with the problem statement.

Quantitative Research Purpose: the purpose of this quantitative study is to understand what the causes of gender inequality in the defense sector as well as how they perceive their lack of opportunity to achieve leadership roles.

This is a bit difficult to translate to a workable quant study as you don’t know what causes/factors to measure and or how to measure “gender inequality” and you don’t really have a design that asks one of the following questions

To examine the extent of the difference between (groups, conditions, treatments) in some outcome?

To examine the relationship between X and Y?

See below for suggested Rq, Then back up and make the problem and purpose align

Quantitative Research Question:

What are the factors that influence gender inequality in the defense sector?

You need to suppose that you know there is gender inequality and ask a question about the effects of it. You might perhaps ask what the difference between males and females in advancement or promotions in the defense sector? Or what is the difference between males and females in rate of mental health issues (to be further defined) Or What is the difference between males and females in income? Number of raises?

Theory or conceptual Framework:

The theory of benevolent sexism explains systematic oppression that has led to underrepresentation of ladies in the firms. The defense sector is similar to that which exists in large corporation. Sexism tends to be an underlying basis to comprehend hostile and benevolent reactions as well as decision in the workplace. Dominant beliefs and gender rules are based on social expectation which makes it hard for the ladies to take up the leadership roles in the defense sector.

Quantitative Research Design: the research design that will be used in this study is Surveys. They will aid in bringing out the association between gender inequality and their lack of opportunity to achieve leadership roles.

First, revise as above, then,

See the Quantitative Design Concepts table and choose a design from one of those categories. Surveys are methods not designs.

Quantitative Sampling Strategy: Criterion method of sampling will be used. This will allow the researcher to major on individuals that have experienced the issue being studies. This aids in enhancing assurance (Better Evaluation, 2014).

Ok

Quantitative Data Collection Method: Questionnaires will be administered to the women in the defense sector in person, through email as well as through social media.

Ok