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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Women's status"”.
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RELIGION AND WOMEN'S STATUS ATTAINMENT: A COMPARATIVE AND HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS
… hierarchical methodology to model variability in status attainment by religious factors, gender traditionalism, and contextual features of the fifty-seven countries included in the sample. The broad research goals were to ascertain gender differences in attainment outcomes, and to extend the scope …
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Women's status and fertility rates : results from national level data
1 PDF file (v, 62 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm)
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THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND WIFE-BEATING IN THE U S: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS
<p>The relationship between status of women and wife-beating has been the subject of some debate. It has been argued that sexual inequality is one of the central causes of wife abuse (Dobash and Dobash, 1980; Martin, 1976). On the other hand, some claim that the charges being brought about by the …
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Women empowered: The Purkal Project – weaving the fibers of transformation through education and entrepreneurship in rural northern India
… the history of the conditions of poverty for women in India, reviewed the development of the Purkal Project, and shared personal perspectives from participants. Societal engagement through family and education are core fundamentals of development and community empowerment; however, social …
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Recovering the lives of South African Jewish women during the migration years c1880-1939
… of the normative experience of Jewish women, the majority of whom were first and second generation immigrants from eastern Europe. Entitled "Setting up house", the first section opens with their migration, their establishment of immigrant neighbourhoods, and the perpetuation of their …
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Deviant fertility in China
… with a sample of 6,654 Chinese ever married women aged 49 or younger, the Old-Age Security Survey of 220 married Chinese couples, and the Records of County Family Planning Commissions. More than 50 variables and a number of measurement scales are defined and measured. Descriptive statistics, …
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Gender-based violence and the risk of HIV and AIDS among women in Ngaka Modiri Molema district, North West Province
… the social functioning of many people including women worldwide. They contribute negatively to the physical, social, emotional and psychological well-being of an individual. Both men and women can be perpetrators of violence, but the majority of the perpetrators of such violence are usually men …
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Globalization and the diffusion of gender policy reforms in Latin America
… violence, the introduction of state agencies for women, and the incorporation into law of candidate gender quotas for national parliamentary elections. This thesis evaluates the explanations offered in the existing literature, including both national and international level analyses that could …
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The Unsafe Home: An Analysis of Reported Domestic Violence in India
Violence against women has been acknowledged both nationally and internationally as a violation of women's basic human rights, an issue which weakens the overall development of women globally. India enacted the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act in 2005 in order to address the issue of …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on their equality to men and by allowing their voices to be heard. But in trying to understand why women did not speak about their personal victimization at the TRC hearings, and why so many women characters in South African …