Exploring Sikh Punjabi Canadian Women’s Experiences of Navigating Salient Familial and Cultural Expectations
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Abstract
Several South Asian women in Western contexts navigate significantly challenging gendered expectations from their families and cultural communities pertaining to academics, career (Baggulay & Hussain, 2014), domestic responsibilities (Mustafa et al., 2020), family management, cultural preservation, marriageability, marriage, and children (Mehrotra, 2016; Somerville, 2019). The expectations can be significantly distressing (Grewal et al., 2005; Mafura & Charura, 2021; Mehrotra, 2016; Somerville, 2019), yet there is limited research specifically exploring the experience of navigating them. Sikh Punjabi Canadian women are one such South Asian cultural group that navigates challenging familial and cultural expectations. Through an interpretative phenomenological analysis of semi-structured interviews, the present study explored five Sikh Punjabi Canadian women’s strengths and coping strategies in navigating salient familial and cultural expectations. Findings revealed participant experiences of expectations to be consistent with existing literature and identified four group experiential themes capturing participant strengths in navigating gendered expectations. Strengths included (1) recognizing expectations as unfair and harmful, (2) gaining the courage to resist expectations, (3) engaging in strategies to alleviate distress and enhance emotional wellbeing, and (4) balancing care for self and care for family. These strengths and coping strategies provide several potential avenues for exploring culturally aligned interventions that draw on the existing resilience of Sikh Punjabi Canadian women, and thus, support the self-empowerment of the Sikh Punjabi Canadian community.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".