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  2. Geographic mobility - Wikipedia

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    93% of women graduate from high school and 63% from college, but only 46.7% of college grads are employed. [12] Further, those employed women suffer from a 76% wage differential compared to like qualified men. [12] Japan has similar structural issues where half of the employed women in the country only work part-time. [12]

  3. Lateral movement - Wikipedia

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    Lateral movements are important tools to help with training problems, as they encourage better balance, suppleness, and response to the riding aids.When performed correctly, they ask the horse to move their legs further under their body, thus increasing impulsion and improving movement, and can help build muscle evenly on both sides.

  4. Feminist geography - Wikipedia

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    The geography of women examines the effects geography has on gender inequality and is theoretically influenced by welfare geography and liberal feminism. Feminist geographers emphasize the various gendered constraints put in place by distance and spatial separation (for instance, spatial considerations can play a role in confining women to ...

  5. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Examples include "Vietnamese", describing a person from Vietnam; "Detroiter" for a person from the city of Detroit, Michigan; and "Macedonian" for a person from North Macedonia or the wider historical region of Macedonia. denudation The uncovering of deeper layers of rock by any natural process, e.g. erosion, weathering, or mass movement. [4]

  6. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    Movement is the travel of people, goods, and ideas from one location to another. Examples of movement include the United States' westward expansion, the Information Revolution, and immigration. New devices such as the airplane and the Internet allow physical and ideological goods to be transferred long distances in short time intervals. A ...

  7. Landscape connectivity - Wikipedia

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    [9] Nine years later, Merriam and colleagues, revised the definition to "the degree to which the landscape impedes or facilitates movement among resource patches. [1] Although this definition has undoubtedly become the most accepted and cited meaning within the scientific literature, many authors have continued to create their own definitions.

  8. List of movements of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Pronation at the forearm is a rotational movement at the radioulnar joint, or of the foot at the subtalar and talocalcaneonavicular joints. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] For the forearm, when standing in the anatomical position , pronation will move the palm of the hand from an anterior-facing position to a posterior-facing position without an associated ...

  9. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. [1] It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society. This movement occurs between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification.