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Tom Langford
Researcher at University of Calgary
Publications - 24
Citations - 539
Tom Langford is an academic researcher from University of Calgary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Welfare state. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 23 publications receiving 508 citations.
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Who cares? : women's work, childcare, and welfare state redesign
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how public policy choices over the last three decades have been fashioned by specific understandings of the gendered division of labour and place them within the larger context of state approaches to women's roles.
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Who Cares? Women's Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)
TL;DR: Jenson and Sineau as mentioned in this paper investigated the ways in which a key value of citizenship, that of equality, has been taken into account or ignored in the redesign of childcare services in these neo-liberal times.
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The meaning of occupational prestige scores: a social psychological analysis and interpretation
Neil J. MacKinnon,Tom Langford +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reexamine the meaning of occupational prestige scores from the social psychological perspective of identity theory using comparable data for Canada and the United States, and analyze the impact of prestige scores on job performance.
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The affective bases for the gendering of traits: Comparing the United States and Canada.
Tom Langford,Neil J. MacKinnon +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that women's status advantage on this secondary hierarchy might be understood as benevolent sexism or, alternatively, as social recognition of the importance of women's caring labor, and that higher levels of goodness are consistent with the perception that a trait is associated with females.
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Canadians' responses to aboriginal issues: the roles of prejudice, perceived group conflict and economic conservatism
Tom Langford,J. Rick Ponting +1 more
TL;DR: Lee et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the effects of prejudice, ethnocentrism, economic conservatism, perceived conflict of group interests and perceived personal threat in shaping Canadians' views on three different measures of preferences for government policy in the aboriginal affairs field.