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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"gender-based inequalities"”.
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
The present thesis treats the issue of gender equality in Macedonia during the period of transition from the socialist system to the one of parliamentary democracy. The main aim is to mainstream the gender perspective in the analysis of the transitional policies through the examination of the basic …
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Mechanical Engineering Student Perspectives on the Impact of Company Sustainability on their Career Decisions
… such as climate change, pollution, and race and gender-based inequalities. Although awareness of the need for corporate sustainability has grown, companies could be doing a lot more. During the recruiting process, students showing they care about corporate sustainability can pressure companies to …
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Mobile Phones, Social Relations, and the Gatekeepers to Women's Empowerment in Maasai Households
… between mobile phones and socially constructed gender-based inequalities in agro-pastoralist Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. Grounded in perspectives from scholarship on women's empowerment and rural liveihoods, I ask: (1) how do women access and use phones?; and (2) how are women's …
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Organised social networks and the positive resettlement of female forced migrants: A case study of the Scalabrini Women's Platform and Congolese women in Cape Town
… racism that linger in South Africa, women face gender-based inequalities and the barrier of language, placing them in a vulnerable position and exposing them to abuse and isolation. Organised social networks are understood as a source of social capital that improves lifestyle by limiting …
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Dress and women's self-fashioning in Makonde, Zimbabwe
… fashion, questioning dominant assumptions about gender roles that may limit creativity, agency and self-expression. I evaluate views on gender-based inequalities that, though crucial, may obscure the relational aspects of women's lives and the role of Hunhu in Korekore women's self-fashioning. A …
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Gender Inequalities in Access to Tuberculosis Services in South Africa
… social determinants of health, inclusive of gender. Generally, the gender aspects of access to TB services have been an overlooked research area, and insufficient attention has been given to this aspect of TB control; although a number of previous studies, which had attempted to examine the …
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Gendered networks and work. The case of Social Entrepreneurship, and the Social and Solidarity Economy in Barcelona
Aquesta tesi explora aspectes de gènere en un ecosistema organitzatiu de l'economia social i solidària a Barcelona. Hi ha diferències de gènere en termes de condicions de 'treball decent'? Hi ha diferències de gènere per als emprenedors socials en termes d'accés a recursos clau, com l'assessorament …