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NEGOTIATING GENDER EQUITY: WEIGHING UP GENDER ROLE REPRESENTATION IN INDIA’S FILM KI AND KA [PDF]

, 2017
Debates on how humankind interacts as a society not often but always related on how gender difference is perceived. As feminism is culture-based, religious and multi- ethnic Asia, including India and Indonesia has its unique outlook.
Pujarama, W. (Widya), Yustisia, I. R. (Ika)   +1 more
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Social-structural barriers to primary care among sex workers: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2021)

BMC Health Services Research
Background Due to social-structural marginalization, sex workers experience health inequities including a high prevalence of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections, mental health disorders, trauma, and substance use, alongside a multitude of ...
Miriam T. H. Harris, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Haoxuan Zhou, Shira M. Goldenberg   +4 more
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Teen Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education [PDF]

Previous studies in developed countries have found a micro-level association between teenage fertility and girls’ educational attainment but researchers still debate the policy implications of these associations.
C. Shannon Stokes, Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue   +1 more
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Intimate partner violence trajectories over a 1-year period in a population-based cohort of women in Kenya: associations with individual and community normative factors

BMJ Global Health
Introduction The global evidence base on intimate partner violence (IPV) prevalence and risk factors is predominantly cross-sectional, limiting clarity in changes over time.
Peter Gichangi, Michele R Decker, Shannon N Wood, Mary Thiongo, Anaise Williams, Grace Wamue-Ngare   +5 more
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Gender Equity and Renewable Energies : Thematic Background Paper [PDF]

, 2004
The aim of this paper is to review existing evidence on the role of renewable energies in bringing gender equity. The paper first explores the evolution of thinking on gender and energy, in particular that practitioners no longer specifically focus on ...
Clancy, Joy, Oparaocha, Sheila, Roehr, Ulrike   +2 more
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Identifying Winners and Losers in Transportation [PDF]

This paper explores the issues surrounding transportation equity for effects both external and internal to transportation. Several examples of transportation "improvements" imposing transportation costs on more individuals than who are benefited are ...
David Levinson
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Norms shifting and behavior change in uncertain times: Assessing the state of the evidence

Global Public Health
This commentary reflects on the current state of evidence on social norms interventions focused on improving health and economic outcomes for adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries.
Sohail Agha, Courtney McLarnon, Rajiv N. Rimal, Beniamino Cislaghi, W. Douglas Evans, Elizabeth Costenbader, Elizabeth Larson, Sarah Smith, C. Hunter Davis, Rebecka Lundgren   +9 more
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Return on Equality: Investment Opportunities that Help Close the Global Gender Gap [PDF]

, 2017
There is significant opportunity for individual investors, asset managers and companies to move closer to achieving the goal of gender equality and make direct social, market and global economic impacts, according to a compelling report launched today by

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Erratum to “Sport as a vehicle of change for livelihoods, social participation and marital health for the youth: Findings from a prospective cohort in Bihar, India” [EClinicalMedicine 20 (2020) 100302]

EClinicalMedicine, 2020
Nandita Bhan, Kaushik Bhadra, Namratha Rao, Jennifer Yore, Anita Raj   +4 more
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Factors associated with utilisation of staff clinic services by nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, Zimbabwe. A cross-sectional study

NSC Nursing
Introduction: Nurses, as gatekeepers of health, are expected to seek formal healthcare services, reflecting the advice they give patients. However, squalid working conditions, long hours, and heavy workloads expose them to occupational health hazards ...
Rumbidzai Marevesa, Maxwell Mhlanga
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