Measuring Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploratory and Confirma…
Background: Women’s status and empowerment influence health, nutrition, and socioeconomic status of women and their children. Despite its benefits, however, research on women’s empowerment in…
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Gender rights in post-colonial societies: A comparative study of Kenya and India
This paper is a comparative legal study undertaken to determine the current status of gender rights in two countries: India and Kenya. The countries were selected on the basis of their similar lega…
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Structure, Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights
Economic, cultural, and political opportunity structures have been separately shown to facilitate and constrain abortion rights. We examine two central and related questions: First, which factors…
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Grants Awarded Nigeria 2001 - 2010
AWDF awards grants to African women's organizations working in the following thematic areas: Women's Human Rights Economic Empowerment Political Participation Peace-Building Healt…
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Womanspace: The Underground and the Labyrinth in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earths…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s renowned Earthsea cycle, spanning 20 years and five texts, is often acknowledged to be a textual space for the creative exploration and interrogation of gender. The two spaces…
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Interventions to Address Unequal Gender and Power Relations and Improve Self-…
Many women living with HIV experience gendered power inequalities, particularly in their intimate relationships, that prevent them from achieving optimal sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and …
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Exploring the Perceptions of Wits Academic Women About Women Empowerment and …
Issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality have been of paramount importance, particularly in the two decades since the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At that conferenc…
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Local Human Development in Contexts of Permanent Crisis: Women’s Experience…
Sahrawi women are active agents in the social dynamics of the refugee camps, in which they have developed a number of coping strategies to overcome the hardships of a deteriorating humanitarian si…
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Two Tier Development: Women in Africa
In this article, we identify African countries with a similar development level based on selected women’s development indicators. To assess the development levels, we used the following indicator…
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Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in …
Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. We eva…
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