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Martha R. Burt
Researcher at Urban Institute
Publications - 61
Citations - 5743
Martha R. Burt is an academic researcher from Urban Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Population. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 61 publications receiving 5520 citations.
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Cultural myths and supports for rape.
TL;DR: This article found that acceptance of rape myths can be predicted from attitudes such as sex role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs, sexual conservatism, and acceptance of interpersonal violence, and that younger and better educated people reveal less stereotypic and adversarial, and proviolence attitudes and less rape myth acceptance.
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Sexual Harassment at Work: Three Explanatory Models
TL;DR: This paper explored three models of sexual harassment derived from previous research, court cases and legal defenses: the Natural/Biological Model, the Organizational Model, and the Sociocultural Model.
Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve | Findings of the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients
TL;DR: The information in this report is critical to discussions about effective public policy responses needed to break the cycle of homelessness, and it provides an important baseline and foundation for future assessments of the nature and extent of homelessness as mentioned in this paper.
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Differences among Homeless Single Women, Women with Children, and Single Men
Martha R. Burt,Barbara E. Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present descriptive data for single women and women with children, and contrast it to parallel data of single homeless men, with implications for both the probable causes of their homelessness and preventive and ameliorative efforts.