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The cost of losing quality employees can be expensive for companies and firms. Higher rates of turnover for women, particularly in public accounting, have sparked efforts to resolve the problem. To further understanding of the current job attitudes of men and women accountants, over 500 accounting graduates employed in a variety of positions were surveyed. Scales were used to measure the following job attitudes: two types of Organizational Commitment (Affective Commitment and Continuance Commitment), Job Satisfaction, Intrinsic Satisfaction, Job Security and Turnover Intentions. The results indicated that the men and women accountants had many similar, positive job attitudes, but there were some notable cross‐gender differences. Overall, men tended to be more intrinsicallysatisfied and affectively committed to their jobs, primarily because they were older and had been in their jobs longer. For the women, unlike the men, job tenure was not associated with higher satisfaction levels or greater feelings of attachment to their organizations. Additionally, economic‐related factors such as percentage of household income contributed, job security, and continuance commitment (attachment to a job’s benefits) were associated with lower reported turnover intentions for men, but not for women. Implications of these findings are discussed.

The purpose of this paper is to question the effectiveness of violence, armed rebellion in this case, as a means to topple oppressors. It takes the Syrian armed rebellion as a case study.

This paper empirically examines arguments about nonviolent actions and their effectiveness and how violent action harmed the Syrian revolution. The paper adopts the Syrian revolution as a case study.

The paper finds that the shift from nonviolent to violent action harmed the revolution. However, the Syrian case remains hypothetical because the uprising tuned violent already in late 2011. Nevertheless, based on statistical and academic observations the paper finds that the impact of the militarization has been destructive without fulfilling the uprising's goals.

Because the Syrian conflict is a recent one, still ongoing, and there is a time lag in the publication of academic papers and books, this paper necessarily draws on newspaper articles and online sources in presenting the case study.

The paper looks at the developments of the Syrian conflict from a different angle than the mainstream narratives. Furthermore, it contributes to the field of nonviolence studies by investigating the new Syrian case, which has not been well-systematically researched from this perspective.