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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"women’s access"”.
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EXPLORING REFUGEE WOMEN’S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES: THE FIRST YEAR
… resources, inadequate food and water, and no access to education. Refugee women may have also experienced sexual violence, gender-based discrimination, and reproductive health problems. Resettled refugees often know little to nothing about their medical needs until a health assessment is done …
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Refugee women’s access to and use of emergency contraceptives as a reproductive health right in Kenya
This dissertation focuses on discussing the access and usage of emergency contraceptives among refugee women as a human rights issue. The study incorporates the intersectionality and reproductive justice theory to explain the barriers to access and usage of emergency contraceptives among refugee …
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Examining the state policies and external organizational ties that affect women’s access to and engagement in substance use disorder treatment services
Women’s access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment is affected by their social status and policies that present both opportunities and barriers to treatment. Motherhood, including pregnancy, tends to increase participation in health care and thus opportunities for referral to and engagement …
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Developing guidelines to promote community participation and local accountability for pregnant women’s access to basic antenatal care in Mpumalanga Province South Africa
… and local accountability for pregnant women to access basic antenatal care in the area. The study was conducted in two phases where purposive sampling was used to select the participants. In phase 1 data was collected through focus group discussions and face-to-face indepth individual …
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Increasing women’s access to credit through establishment of a village community bank: a case of women at Makulu ward Dodoma (R) District
Women in Tanzania are among the vulnerable groups and are considered to poorer than men counterparts due to low level of education and the existing customary laws that discriminate them in terms of property ownership and inheritance rights. Despite the fact that there have been various efforts by …
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Abortion access in the US: is it a fading reality? a mixed methods approach
… geographic barriers and legislative barriers on women’s access to abortion at the state and local levels. Women’s access to abortion is determined by legal restrictions that vary across states as well as by the geographic availability of abortion clinics. The past five years have seen an increase …
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Lithuanian women in the Parliament: Access and participation in post-socialist politics
<p>This thesis examines women’s access and representation in Lithuania’s parliament. It sets out to discuss women’s abilities to influence and initiate policies and laws that protect and empower women in Lithuania. I examine elected parliamentarians’ motivations, as well as campaigns, and projects …
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Her-story in Motion: Racialized Women's Narratives Resisting Race and Gender-based Violence on Transit
Public transit is essential for racialized women’s access to employment, education, and social opportunities. However, the prevalence of violence against women has established public transit environments that fail to ensure women’s safety. Hierarchical power structures and patriarchal norms within …
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“What does this do?” The neoliberal creep, sexual health work and the deregulation of emergency contraception
Beginning with eight women’s experiences in accessing emergency contraception from a pharmacist, this research brings into view the undocumented “sexual health work” of obtaining the drug in northern Ontario. Between 2005 and 2008, emergency contraception was deregulated to behind-the-counter, …
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The Effects of Grameen-Model Microfinance Institutions and Self-Help Group Microfinance on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural India
<p>Women in rural India suffer from pervasive gender inequality and disempowerment. One road to equality is economic empowerment through microfinance. Economic empowerment consists of an increase in savings, income, ownership of property or a microenterprise, and access to social services and …
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Engendering familial citizens: Serial-viewing among middle-class women in urban India
This thesis is a study of serial viewing among women in middle-families in two Indian cities carried out in 2007. It explores women’s engagement with a new brand of serial narratives that centralizes the traditional Hindu joint family and places women at the centre of the family as nurturer and …
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A pregnancy test: women workers and the hybrid American welfare state, 1940-1993
… emerged grew largely in the private sector where women’s disadvantages in the workforce constrained maternity in the blossoming system of employee fringe benefits. Where they could, unions defended women’s access to contractual benefits, but this effort was hampered by the marginalization of …
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Trading the Apron for the White Lab Coat: A Contemporary History of Dietetics in Canada, 1954 to 2016
… of dietetics reveals compelling insights about women’s access to post-secondary education, particularly in the sciences, as well as paid employment throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Moreover, the history of dietetics reveals interesting insights about the competing ontological and …
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Security and emancipation as resistance: how contesting and navigating narratives of women in Chechnya impacts NGO actions
This thesis investigates how women’s emancipation is contested in post-conflict Chechnya by looking at NGO efforts to push the boundaries between the private- public and local-global spheres in resistance. How women’s NGOs are able to challenge these boundaries is demonstrated through relational …
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Growing cotton: Household negotiations in export-oriented agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… in developing economies, and above all, mars women’s potential for economic autonomy. In Southwest Burkina Faso, observations in cotton-producing households appear to challenge such assumptions. Cotton is the driver of food crop production; and members of cotton farming households operate …
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A feminist analysis of mental health providers' perspectives of Latina women
Researchers have documented that Latina women involved in the mental health system face a number of barriers to access to services and ongoing use of services. Latina women involved in the mental health system are often viewed as at-risk. This study challenges traditional pathological views of …
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The determinants of mothers’ access to antenatal healthcare in South Africa: insights from the Eastern Cape province
… in its improvements and provisions for women’s access to primary healthcare facilities. Women in the Eastern Cape province continue to lack access to antenatal care; in some cases, the mother and unborn child suffer terrible consequences. For this reason, the study aimed to identify the …
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“There was no ‘first woman’”: The historical politics of gender, science, and exploration in twentieth-century US Antarctic fieldwork
… and processes that underpinned the exclusion of women from US Antarctic activity through most of the twentieth century, as well as those that structured women’s eventual access. In so doing, it contributes to debates about gendered boundaries in science and exploration, illuminating a complex …
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Microfinance and women empowerment in Bangladesh: Impact in economic, social and political dimensions.
… examines the impact of microfinance services on women’s economic, social and political empowerment in Bangladesh. Microfinance is alternative financial services for poor people, predominantly for women as they are more poverty-stricken and discriminated in Bangladesh. These services are more …
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Equal but Different: Gender Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation
… within the Irish Defence Forces that position women and men in particular roles informally and which act to support or inhibit women’s access to peacekeeping missions. Through discourse analysis this study reveals ‘equal but different’ as the dominant discourse on gender relations within the …
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