Rehana Ghadially
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rehana Ghadially |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rehana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghadially |
| SIGNATURE | GHADIALLY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender-differentiated Impact on Minority Youth of Basic Computer Education in Mumbai City
Young people from marginalized communities are applying newly acquired technical knowhow to leapfrog the socioeconomic levels of their families and communities. This article explores the impact of basic computer education on the lives of young men and women from a Muslim minority community of India. Twenty-seven young women and 25 young men (median age = 23 years) were interviewed 2 months after they completed a 1-year diploma course, and their r…
Gender and Decision-Making in Technology Adoption among Youth
Computer adoption is tested by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that theorises how users come to accept and use a technology. The sample for the study consisted of 172 trainees (102 females, 70 males; mean age 21.34 years), enrolled in a one-year diploma course in computer applica-tions and multilingual desktop publishing from three computer training centres in Mumbai. Data was collected after six weeks of computer training using standard ps…
Devotional Empowerment
The religious life of the Daudi Bohras, an Ismaili Shia sect of South Asian Muslims, comprises a rich pattern of devotional rituals. This paper focuses on domestic pilgrimage, which constitutes an expression of devotion at the shrines of their spiritual leaders and other holy men. It describes the Bohra sect, their sacred geography, the nature and ways of the women pilgrims, the character of the devotional ritual, the motives that bring the faith…
Empowering Women through ICT Education
ICTs provide knowledge and resources that hold potential for women’s empowerment. Access to technology is not only the availability of hardware, but a training approach that facilitates computer adoption. This study examined the adoption of computer technology by novice urban women. It explored the contribution of psychological variables such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease ofuse, subjective norm, and computer selfefficacy to behavioral i…
A Hajari (Meal Tray) for ‘Abbas Alam Dar
Women's Vows, Roles and Household Ritual in a South Asian Muslim Sect
This paper describes and analyzes a household group religious ritual among the Bohra women of the Ismai'li Shi'i sect of South Asian Muslims. Bohras are a Gujarati speaking, endogamous group involved principally in petty trading. The sect has a well-organized cleric class which oversees the spiritual and often temporal concerns of the sect members. Bohra women engage in a variety of religious gatherings and rituals that often involve the fulfillm…
Daudi Bohra Muslim Women and Modern Education
Women in India
Veiling the unveiled
Organizational Politics and Its Effects on Members of Organizations
The study examines the relationship between political behaviors, e.g., ingratiation, structure change, cooptation, and threat, and their outcomes such as interpersonal trust, alienation, and feeling about job performance. A negative relationship between political behaviors and interpersonal trust andfeelings about performance, and a positive relationship between political behaviors and alienation is hypothesized. Results largely support the hypot…
Perception of the Female Role by Indian College Students
Organizational Politics and Its Effects on Members of Organizations
The study examines the relationship between political behaviors, e.g., ingratiation, structure change, cooptation, and threat, and their outcomes such as interpersonal trust, alienation, and feeling about job performance. A negative relationship between political behaviors and interpersonal trust andfeelings about performance, and a positive relationship between political behaviors and alienation is hypothesized. Results largely support the hypot…
A Hajari (Meal Tray) for ‘Abbas Alam Dar
Perception of the Female Role by Indian College Students
Daudi Bohra Muslim Women and Modern Education
Veiling the unveiled
Perception of the Female Role by Indian College Students
Veiling the unveiled
Organizational Politics and Its Effects on Members of Organizations
The study examines the relationship between political behaviors, e.g., ingratiation, structure change, cooptation, and threat, and their outcomes such as interpersonal trust, alienation, and feeling about job performance. A negative relationship between political behaviors and interpersonal trust andfeelings about performance, and a positive relationship between political behaviors and alienation is hypothesized. Results largely support the hypot…
Women in India
Daudi Bohra Muslim Women and Modern Education
Women's Vows, Roles and Household Ritual in a South Asian Muslim Sect
This paper describes and analyzes a household group religious ritual among the Bohra women of the Ismai'li Shi'i sect of South Asian Muslims. Bohras are a Gujarati speaking, endogamous group involved principally in petty trading. The sect has a well-organized cleric class which oversees the spiritual and often temporal concerns of the sect members. Bohra women engage in a variety of religious gatherings and rituals that often involve the fulfillm…
Empowering Women through ICT Education
ICTs provide knowledge and resources that hold potential for women’s empowerment. Access to technology is not only the availability of hardware, but a training approach that facilitates computer adoption. This study examined the adoption of computer technology by novice urban women. It explored the contribution of psychological variables such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease ofuse, subjective norm, and computer selfefficacy to behavioral i…
A Hajari (Meal Tray) for ‘Abbas Alam Dar
Devotional Empowerment
The religious life of the Daudi Bohras, an Ismaili Shia sect of South Asian Muslims, comprises a rich pattern of devotional rituals. This paper focuses on domestic pilgrimage, which constitutes an expression of devotion at the shrines of their spiritual leaders and other holy men. It describes the Bohra sect, their sacred geography, the nature and ways of the women pilgrims, the character of the devotional ritual, the motives that bring the faith…
Gender and Decision-Making in Technology Adoption among Youth
Computer adoption is tested by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that theorises how users come to accept and use a technology. The sample for the study consisted of 172 trainees (102 females, 70 males; mean age 21.34 years), enrolled in a one-year diploma course in computer applica-tions and multilingual desktop publishing from three computer training centres in Mumbai. Data was collected after six weeks of computer training using standard ps…
Gender-differentiated Impact on Minority Youth of Basic Computer Education in Mumbai City
Young people from marginalized communities are applying newly acquired technical knowhow to leapfrog the socioeconomic levels of their families and communities. This article explores the impact of basic computer education on the lives of young men and women from a Muslim minority community of India. Twenty-seven young women and 25 young men (median age = 23 years) were interviewed 2 months after they completed a 1-year diploma course, and their r…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Religious Studies (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Sect (4 works)