Rendering sexism invisible in workplace narratives. A narrative analysis of female entrepreneurs’ stories of not being talked to by men

Entrepreneurism is widely regarded as being one way in which women can sidestep the sexism of male‐dominated institutionalized work environments and enter into a world in which men and women operate on a level playing field. Yet, in a corpus of stories of female entrepreneurs’ experiences, we noted that being ignored by men was a constant theme. Taking a social constructionist and narrative approach to identity, we analyse the gendered identity work that female entrepreneurs do in these stories and we seek to explicate the process through which female entrepreneurs do not evaluate being ignored by men as sexism‐in‐action. Using positioning theory as an analytical tool, we analyse these stories at three different levels: the here‐and‐now interaction between interviewer and storyteller; the there‐and‐then identity work of the characters in the storyworld; and the wider societal Discourses that the storytellers enact, and which are enacted by such identity work. Findings indicate that despite making gendered difference, inferiority and lack of agency relevant, the stories are not evaluated as sexism‐in‐action because the female entrepreneurs enact a postfeminist and neoliberal Discourse of freedom, autonomy and choice, rather than a feminist Discourse of discrimination and sexism.     

Non-asymptotic sequential confidence regions with fixed sizes for the multivariate nonlinear parameters of regression

In this paper we consider a sequential design for the estimation of nonlinear parameters of regression with guaranteed accuracy. Non-asymptotic confidence regions with fixed sizes for the least squares estimates are used. The obtained confidence region is valid for finite numbers of data points when the distributions of the observations are unknown.     

以知识管理解决政府信息失真问题的对策与建议

解决政府信息失真的问题,是提高政府管理能力和管理效率的重要途径。要从根本上真正解决政府信息失真的问题,光靠技术上的信息管理是不够的。文章指出运用知识管理理论来解决政府信息失真问题可能是一条有效途径,运用知识管理理论,建立起学习型政府,明确以知识管理解决政府信息问题的原则,并采取一系列切实有效的对策和措施从根本上解决政府信息失真。     

Who Is the Boss and Who Is Not? Accuracy of Judging Status

We investigated whether people were accurate at judging other people's status, what behavioral and appearance cues they relied on when assessing status, whether the way those cues were used was accurate, and whether target gender affected any of the results. Targets (N = 48) were university employees (faculty and staff) who were photographed while interacting with a coworker. One sample of perceivers (66 females, 42 males) rated the relative status of the two people in the photograph to each other, and another sample (60 females and males) rated each target in the photograph on status. Additionally, an array of behavioral and appearance cues of targets in the photograph was assessed. Results showed that (1) people were able to assess status in others, (2) the cues they used to assess female and male targets were somewhat different, and (3) how much people relied on specific cues corresponded to how status was expressed in these cues.     

多传感器系统的灵敏度、选择性与精度

对多传感器系统预处理部分的灵敏度、选择性、精度及分离性作了全面分析，并引用矩阵范数证明了估计精度和分离性的上界。这些上界揭示了精度和分离性与设计阵的条件数［Ｃｏｎｄ（Ｂ）］以及设计阵偏离值δＢ和随机变量ε之间的关系。这表明，欲提高多传感器系统的估计精度，可通过控制Ｃｏｎｄ（Ｂ）、δＢ和ε来实现     

关于双销定位中工件转角定位精度的研究

本文就削边销及其配合孔的直径与工件最大转角误差的关系进行了分析计算。结果表明：对于有较高转角定位精度要求的工件，在保证原有孔、销配合精度不变的前提下，适当加大削边销与其配合孔的直径，可以减小转角误差，提高定位精度；对于转角定位精度要求一般的工件，加大削边销与其配合孔的直径，可在不降低转角定位精度的情况下，成倍地增加销间公差，从而使夹具易于制造，降低了夹具的制造成本。     

"家庭养老"概念的重申与我国农村养老

家庭养老作为我国传统的养老模式,随着社会的发展,时代的变迁,其内涵、内容、目标和方式都发生了一系列的变化,为此通过重新陈述“家庭养老”这一概念来分析家庭养老在现代社会中的地位,并通过与社会养老的对比分析,探索我国农村的养老问题。     

伪距差分GPS定位误差分析

提出了ＧＰＳ测量误差模型，并在此基础上第一次给出了伪距差分ＧＰＳ的ＲＭＳ误差表达式。这个误差表达式揭示了影响伪距差分ＧＰＳ定位精度的误差源及其影响大小。分析表明，不同于ＧＰＳ直接定位，伪距测量随机误差已是伪距差分ＣＰＳ的主要误差源之一。     

Performance evaluation of normal distribution software

Methods are developed to test the performance of software for calculating the standard normal distribution function. The accuracy and implementation details of the tests are described. Results are presented on a selection of available codes, showing a wide variation in performance. At least one published code is shown to have severe defects.     

He is a Firm,Strong‐Minded and Empowering Leader,but is She? Gendered Positioning of Female and Male CEOs

The article focuses on how management and gender are done in written stories about female and male chief executive officers (CEOs). The stories were written by young Finnish business school students. The logic for studying stories written by students lies in the argument that the new generation will not reproduce common stereotypes about soft, democratic and caring female managers and hard, authoritarian and strong male managers. In the analysis, we rely on positioning theory, which focuses on how the CEOs are discursively positioned, that is, what kinds of roles and duties they are assigned and how their positions shift as the story unfolds. The analysis shows that while there is little difference in the rights and duties assigned to the CEOs, the positioning of female and male CEOs construct a very different picture of their abilities as business managers and leaders of people. The female CEOs are depicted as successful business managers but lacking in interpersonal skills. The male CEOs are also successful business managers but they are constructed as naturally competent leaders of people. This finding is linked to the Finnish management context as well as to the institutionalized leadership and management discourses.