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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"women's education"”.
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Women's education in Afghanistan : activist, Taliban and public views
… study investigates the intricate landscape of women's education in Afghanistan through the perspectives of diverse groups, including activists, Taliban officials, and the general public. The study aims to explore the attitudes and sentiments surrounding women's education by combining content …
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Perilous Pedagogies: Women's Education and Epistolarity from Rousseau to Charrière
… French epistolary novels deal with the issue of women's education and the possibility of its reform. The debate of the latter half of the century is firmly centered on Rousseau, who wrote both a best-selling epistolary novel dealing with the position of women in society (Julie, ou la Nouvelle …
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Essays on Women's Education, Health Knowledge, and Fertility: Evidence from Vietnam
In 1991, Vietnam introduced a compulsory primary education reform requiring all children aged six and above to complete five years of primary schooling before age 15. This dissertation examines the reform’s implications for educational attainment, health knowledge, and early life outcomes. Chapter …
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God's Glass Ceiling: Women's Education in Christian Fundamentalist Higher Education Institutions
… historically held complex relationships with education and with women. This thesis examines the intersection of the three topics through a case study approach by looking at the education of women at fundamentalist institutions Bob Jones University, Liberty University, and Southwestern Baptist …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (1766); and they demand educational parity between the sexes. …
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Rethinking home economics careers in the struggle for women's education in Botswana
… of Home economics professionals in Botswana educational institutions with the aim of presenting argument against this colonial mentality that still lingers in the education system of Botswana and result in Home economics teachers suffering professional indignity in schools and colleges. In …
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Lifting as We Climb: African American Women's Education Experience in the Ivory Tower
… to examine the experiences of African American women in doctoral programs. 102 African American women completed an on-line survey, and twenty women participated in one-on-one interviews. As an African American female, the researcher is interested in comparing the experiences of African American …
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The Council on Appalachian Women: Short Lived but Long Lasting
<p>In October 1976, approximately 200 women from seven states met in Boone, North Carolina, at the National Advisory Council on Women's Education. In December 1976, thirty-five of these women met again at Mars Hill College and created a non-profit organization, the Council on Appalachian Women, …
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An economic analysis of women's schooling on fertility and contraceptive use in developing countries: A case study of Tanzania
… explores the economic relationships between women's schooling, fertility rates, and contraceptive use in Tanzania where population growth and fertility rates are among the highest in the world and aggravate the already ailing economy. Two models are used: fertility and contraceptive use. The …
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Girls' Schooling Experience in Frankadua, Ghana: A Case Study
For the last three decades, girls education has been at the forefront of international development discourse on education. Despite all the available evidence that underscores the gains that accrue to society from women's education, gender disparities in education still persist. Using a critical …
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Women in an Evangelical Community: Oberlin 1835-50
… is frequently mentioned in connection with women's education, women's rights, or the struggle for women's emancipation. The following passage from the 1834 First Circular is invariably cited: Oberlin's founders strove for"… the elevation of female character, by bringing within the reach of …
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Girl interrupted! The impact of child marriage on women's educational attainment in Zambia
… role in advancing the economic empowerment of women and young girls. However, significant barriers continue to impede girls and women from pursuing further education in developing countries. Among the various factors affecting women's education, child marriage frequently emerges as a …
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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 Roots of Feminist Invocations in Post-Revolutionary Iran
… contrary to what was intended. The expansion of women's education in post-revolutionary Iran identified as an unintended consequence of the revolution has been empowering women against the IRI's misogynistic ideology. A feminist movement based on the evolution of female consciousness and an …
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Women's experiences of literacy participation in Cape Town, South Africa : six African women tell their stories
… thesis explores the experiences of six African women participating in literacy programs in Cape Town, South Africa. In order to understand the present context in which the women live and study, it is important to consider the historical, political, economic and cultural factors that have shaped …
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Negotiating the ambivalent construction of 'coloured' identity, in relation to the work of Malika Ndlovu and the Cape Town-based Black Women's Writers Collective, WEAVE
… woman writer, Malika Ndlovu and the collective Women's Education and Artistic Voice Expression (WEAVE), of which Malika Ndlovu is a founder member. Chapter two uses a postcolonial lens to discuss constructions of identity. This chapter looks at the ways in which postcolonial theorists oppose …
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The Economics of Marriage and Divorce in Iran
… Age structure of the population, the rise of women's education, marriage and divorce laws, and fertility decline are the four main forces influencing marriage transitions, that is, the age of marriage, couple's age and education gaps, quality of marriage (stability, education status of …
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Broadcasting Change: Radio Talk Shows, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Senegal
… radio talk shows as a platform for Senegalese women to debate social issues and identifies new directions and alternative avenues for their lives. Radio talk show in Senegal is a dynamic, flexible, and interactive tool for communication while highlighting the way women relate to and use this …
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Essays on Inequality and Education
… dissertation provides evidence of the return to education in Iran as well as measurement of inequality of opportunity and the Human Opportunity Index using cross-section data of Trends in Mathematics and Science Studies and Harmonized Household Income and Expenditure Surveys of several Middle …
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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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