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Challenging gender inequalities

open access: yesReview of African Political Economy, 1993
It has been nearly a decade since ROAPE published its first issue specifically devoted to the situation of women in Africa, 'Women, Oppression and Liberation' (no 27/28, 1984). As Roberts noted in her Debates piece then, 'Feminism in Africa; Feminism and Africa', this was not the first time that articles dealing with questions of gender and women's ...
Carolyn Baylies, Janet Bujra
openaire   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship between Gender Inequality Index and Indicators Related to Children in Countries with Different Income Levels: An Ecologic Study

open access: yesRāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2017
Background: Gender inequality index shows reduction in human development due to inequality between men and women, which results in vulnerability to diseases.
Nahid Hatam   +3 more
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GENDER INEQUALITY TOWARDS THE MALE DOMINATION IN THE MOVIE OF ENOLA HOLMES 2

open access: yesFrasa
Gender inequality is a social problem where there is discrimination or unequal treatment between men and women in access to important resources in human life.
Yesiana Vianingrum, Winarti Winarti
doaj   +1 more source

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Gender Inequality and Good Governance on Health Status: Evidence from Upper-middle-income Countries

open access: yesتحقیقات سلامت در جامعه, 2022
Introduction and purpose: Gender equality and good governance are the most important social indicators affecting health status and well-being. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the impact of gender inequality and good governance on health
Mahdi Shahraki   +2 more
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