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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Women's empowerment"”.
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Female Leaders and Women's Empowerment; 3 Case Studies
"The issue of women’s empowerment and gender equality is a global issue and one that, in many parts of the world, is in dire need of attention. It is for this reason I have decided to examine whether women in positions of power facilitate the enactment of gender-oriented measures or whether they …
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Essays on Women's Empowerment and Economic Development in Iran
This 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 …
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Land titling as women's empowerment: critical observations from Recife Brazil
… highlights the promises and shortcomings of women’s formal ownership of land (land titling) as a means towards women’s empowerment. The literature extensively documents the costs and benefits of land titles for poor women and delineates the gendered impacts of property ownership. The …
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Women's empowerment: fertility intentions and family planning practices in Mozambique
Women's empowerment is a critical step on the path towards gender equality and one of the Sustainable Development Goals. In Mozambique, gender inequality is one of the main challenges and barriers to access for family planning and use of contraceptives. Despite an increasing body of literature …
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Organizational Democracy and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of Four Advocacy Organizations in Bangladesh
Women's empowerment is an important aim of the development activities of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh. In a patriarchal society, women experience discrimination and their participation in decision making processes often is not allowed in domestic, political and economic …
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Mobile Phones, Social Relations, and the Gatekeepers to Women's Empowerment in Maasai Households
… heralded as a tool that can empower and lift women out of vulnerable situations. While many scholars and development professionals believe that phones empower women, some contend that phones amplify disparities for people who are not well-positioned in society. To better understand how the …
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Women's Views on Conservation-Based Income Generation and Women's Empowerment in Kwandu Conservancy in Caprivi, Namibia
… especially regarding goals and claims of gender empowerment. To assess the impact of CBNRM on women's empowerment, this research selected Kwandu Conservancy in Namibia's Caprivi Region for in-depth study, an area with a relatively long and nationally-praised experience with CBNRM. The research …
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Women's Views on Conservation-Based Income Generation and Women's Empowerment in Kwandu Conservancy in Caprivi, Namibia
… especially regarding goals and claims of gender empowerment. To assess the impact of CBNRM on women's empowerment, this research selected Kwandu Conservancy in Namibia's Caprivi Region for in-depth study, an area with a relatively long and nationally-praised experience with CBNRM. The research …
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By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising
… by capitalists. Notions relating to “women’s empowerment” are used by capitalists to sell products to women, and yet many of those capitalists fund political campaigns that directly seek to quash or inhibit the advancement of women’s rights. With a little effort, any consumer can find …
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Women's empowerment in informal settlements of the Peruvian Amazon frontier: A case study of 9 de Octubre, Pucallpa-Peru
Women's organizations in informal settlements located in peri-urban areas of Peruvian Amazon cities have been carrying out programs for solving nutrition, food, health, and income generation problems in their communities. This is a way of women's local action of self-help and self-reliance to …
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Impact of coordinated asset transfers and asset ownership on poverty reduction, women's empowerment, and child education: evidence from Zambia and Tanzania
… asset ownership on poverty and food security, women’s empowerment, and child education in Zambia and Tanzania. In contrast to the traditional view of assets uniformly improving child development outcomes through wealth effects, Chapter 2 assesses whether different types of assets have …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, ensure access to water and sanitation for all. The three chapters build upon existing related literature in the field of development economics, with the first chapter offering a theoretical analysis from an environmental perspective …
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Intercultural factors in the Peace Corps' role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women
… Program in its role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women, and includes an exploration into the intercultural factors that may have affected the outcomes. I used my Peace Corps site of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala as the case study for this research. I reviewed …
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Women of Hangberg: An Explorative Study of Empowerment and Agency
Women's empowerment is considered a key driver for social change and an important development objective. Empowerment describes as a process in which women gain the ability to redefine gender roles and the ability to extend possibilities for being and doing. This includes resources and active …
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Gênero, desenvolvimento e relações internacionais: uma análise do avanço do tema nas Nações Unidas.
… the creation of the United Nations Decade for Women. Thus, the concept of empowerment was brought to the UN sphere as the main element for the achievement of gender equality. This paper proposes to explore the process of integration of the gender equality struggle in the international agenda, …
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Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns
… - to advice columns from three South African women's magazines. An interpretative analysis effects of discourse, renders salient the relationship between knowledges, discursive practices, power and institutions. Using, as a standing point, Wendy Hollway's work on subject positioning of women …
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Toward Empowerment: Women and Community-Based Tourism in Thailand
… a community-based tourism project promotes the empowerment of women,using a case study of one rural Thai community, Leeled. Empowerment is operationalized as a multidimensional process with political, psychological, social, and economic dimensions experienced individually and collectively. While …
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Digital representation of gender equality: Analyzing the European Commission's social media strategy for women’s empowerment policies
… media strategy for promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. By analyzing key campaigns and digital content, the study evaluates the effectiveness of the Commission's communications in raising awareness, engaging audiences, and influencing public perception. The research employs content …
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Hakuna Matata! Do Gender Roles Really Matter?: a Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Walt Disney Cartoons
… to determine the relative amount of power that women have vis-a-vis men. The thesis also examines the differences in the portrayal of gender roles of human and animal characters. In addition, a comparison of the two films from original Walt Disney era are compared to the two films from the …
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