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Water Supply in Rural Ghana: Do Women Benefit? [PDF]

open access: yes
Women?s income poverty in developing countries is usually associated with time poverty. The time that women spend on domestic chores represents significant forgone income. Infrastructure provision potentially reduces women?s time burden.
Degol Hailu   +3 more
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Nonadherence and uncontrolled arterial hypertension in Croatia—Insights from the May Measurement Month 2023 campaign and Hunting the silent killer programme

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims To determine the prevalence of non‐adherence to antihypertensive medicines and to identify demographic and behavioral factors associated with non‐adherence in subjects enrolled in the May Measurement Month (MMM) 2023, as part of the permanent public health action Hunting the silent killer.
Valerija Bralić Lang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Underemployment in urban and rural America, 2005-2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Author Justin Young reports that underemployment (or involuntary part-time work) rates doubled during the second year of the recession, reaching roughly 6.5 percent in 2009. This increase was equally steep in both rural and urban places. By March of 2012,
Young, Justin R.
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Unequal Lives: The State of Black Women and Families in the Rural South [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report aims to shed light on the most significant and persistent barriers to success, opportunity, and economic security for lower-income women and families in the rural South.
C. Nicole Mason
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Extension for the Invisible Actors in Hunger Drama in Rural Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes
It is now an undisputable fact that rural women farmers produce more than half of all the food grown in Nigeria. They are mainly responsibility for providing food for their families as they plant, harvest and fish, gather fuel wood, fetch water, cook as ...
Egbuna, Ngozi
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Fishing for a Future: Women in Community Based Fisheries Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This is the story of women in the Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) project in Bangladesh. In rural Asia (Southern)-Bangladesh; many women are involved in inland fisheries and fish farming activities, yet annual statistics fail to capture their
Ruh Afza Ruhi   +2 more
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Career motivations and perceptions of teaching of 16–19‐year‐olds in England and Wales

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study provides an understanding of career‐related motivations of 16–19‐year‐olds in schools and A‐level colleges in England and Wales. The 672 participants (62% women) were asked to complete a modified version of the Motivations for Career Choice and the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering scales and provide comments on
Sophie Thompson‐Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

RURAL DEVELOPMENT FROM RURAL WOMENS PERSPECTIVE

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2011
This paper aims the approach of agriculture labor fluctuations, the main activity of the Romanian rural area but in terms of rural development under the current economic crisis. The analysis highlights the importance of rural development from the perspective of rural women, encouraging rural areas partnerships.
Ali Sercin   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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