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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Female empowerment"”.
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Employment equity as a measurement of perceived female empowerment in the railway safety regulator.
Women’s empowerment in the economy is considered important and the South African government, through various legislative interventions, is addressing this in different sectors. This study aimed to assess employment equity as a measure for women’s empowerment through understanding the respondents’ …
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Toward Financial Inclusion and Female Empowerment through Microfinance Development Initiatives in Manila and Central Luzon, Philippines
… study examines the impact of microfinance on the empowerment of Filipino women in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Central Luzon (Region II) regions of the Philippines. Microfinance in the Philippines is a tool of varied uses, implementations, and results. Those include four, in the main: …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) organized in 1896 primarily to care for aging veterans and their families. In addition to this original goal, members attempted to reform Texas society by replacing the practices and values of their male peers with morals and …
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Three essays on investments in child welfare in India
… essay, I examine the impact of an Indian women's empowerment program, Mahila Samakhya on empowerment outcomes. The program aims to empower women through education and by organizing them into support groups. First, I use primary data on 487 women in the state of Uttarakhand to match …
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SHAKE YA ASS, BUT WATCH YOURSELF: AN INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING THE SEXUALIZATION OF FEMALE RECORDING ARTISTS AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
… Approach to Exploring the Sexualization of Female Recording Artists and the Empowerment of Women in the United States, critically examines the phenomenon of sexualization of women in the music industry and its impact on female empowerment. Through an intersectional and decolonial feminist …
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Visualized gender and gendered visuality: Love, marriage, and labor in contemporary Chinese women’s visual culture
… fully recovered as the leading apparatus for female empowerment. Chinese women have made tremendous progress under the leadership of the Communist Party, but at the same time faced unprecedented challenges in contemporary Chinese society where social welfare for women is increasingly …
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Capturing a gendered transformation in society through corporate disclosures
… disclosures related to gender equality and female empowerment in a developing country context. The study identifies Saudi Arabia as a country undergoing a State-driven gendered transformation in its society, in which laws and regulations positively targeting females are embedded within its …
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Cash-in-Hand, Wives-in-Power: An Exploratory Analysis of Microfinance in Jordan
… is an economic policy complimentary to advancing female empowerment. Empowerment is particularly relevant in patriarchic Islamic contexts in the Middle East, however little research exists. Due to counterfactual creation and inconsistent empowerment measurement, the true impact is debated. This …
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Essays on Women's Empowerment and Economic Development in Iran
… dissertation consists of three essays on women empowerment in Iran. In the first two chapters, we examine the impact of the rapid expansion of electricity to rural areas of Iran after the 1979 revolution on two important determinants of women's empowerment, fertility and female literacy. We use …
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Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
… her novel in order to convey a story of radical female empowerment and evolution that critiques gendered stereotypes of marriage and female roles in society. To make this argument, this thesis applies satire theory, most prominently Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas about Menippean satire, as well as …
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Investing in Women: Myths and Realities of Micro-Credit Programs in Peru
… cycle of indebtedness. By the same token, female participation cannot be treated as a direct indicator of female empowerment, especially when women cannot control the use of loans. The pervasive presence of micro-finance institutions offers an alibi for donors as well as governments to …
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IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN? POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES IN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP APPS
… for women are new media peddling an old promise: female empowerment through mediated possibilities of friendship, and software that connects them. Powered by algorithms that help structure their company, these applications (apps) turn out remarkable not for bridging women, but for shaping their …
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DIFFERENTIAL RETURNS TO EDUCATION ACROSS COGNITIVE ABILITY LEVELS: EVIDENCE FROM CEBU LONGITUDINAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION SURVEY DATA
… at average cognitive level is 2.5% and for female it is around 8%. In terms of cognitive ability, the marginal effect of schooling decreases as cognitive ability increases indicating that the schooling has the largest impact for low cognitive ability people. Female seems to earn 20% less …
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"She's an All-in-One Guru": Devotion to a 21st century Mystic
… the guru). Because Gurumaa embraces rhetoric of "female empowerment," and points to her own "enlightened" female body as evidence that women can and do reach the highest spiritual states, her leadership offers an ideal context in which to consider emerging gendered re-interpretations of …
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Subversión femenina en una época pre feminista: análisis de la serie de televisión “Anne with an e”
This research discusses the female representation and female empowerment discourse in the television series “Anne with an E” revealing the wide range of gender issues it tackles. The methodology employed here examines the narrative and female characters through a sample of episodes, classifying the …
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Distortions, Collections, and Mobility: South Asian Poets and the Space for Female Subjectivity
… and locate how this unease with the South Asian female body in the U.K. is reflected in poetic language. In particular, these poets seem to complicate how the body is used as a focal point for discussions about female empowerment and agency. However, this focus on the female body is still …
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Enterprising Women and Village Banking in Urban Paraguay: Current impacts and future implications for social change
… its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation, female empowerment and social change in Paraguay. The data for this thesis was collected over a three month period in 2007, and is based on interviews and file data from clients of the CME program. The research focuses on clients' work histories, …
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Unspoken Incantation: Kawaii Culture as Empowerment
… as a form of expression that represents female empowerment in kawaii culture. This paper specifically addresses how kawaii culture has evolved to include a form of self-expression primarily constructed by young females. Proponents of kawaii culture claim to celebrate femininity through …
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Empowering women in logistics for circular economy transformation in Ethiopia and Ghana
… Dissertation entwickelt und validiert FeCiLog (Female empowerment for circular innovations in logistics) als kompetenzbasiertes Konzept, um Managerin-nen und Unternehmerinnen in der Logistik zu befähigen, zirkuläre Innovationen in Äthiopien und Ghana zu gestalten. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, mit …
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Healed. Womxn. Empowered.: creating healing spaces for women in places of conflict in Nyanga
… a significant obstacle for gender equality and female empowerment in South Africa and also has long-lasting psychological effects on the women who survive these events as well as those around them; altering the way they see themselves and others in relation to the world. There is a need for …
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