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Rural Women's Economic Realities
Journal of Women & Aging, 1998The economic position of many elders has improved over the past few decades. Several groups of elders remain disadvantaged, however, including nonmetropolitan elders and women in any setting. This study examines differences in household income and poverty rates for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan women ages 55 and over in 1970, 1980 and 1990 ...
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Journal of Leadership Studies, 2010
AbstractThis research project was designed to study the determinants of leadership development in rural women. The first phase of the study involved individual interviews with women recognized as leaders within a rural community. Each of the 25 rural women leaders interviewed was raised on a farm or in a community with a population smaller than 2,000 ...
Eldonna Sylvia +5 more
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AbstractThis research project was designed to study the determinants of leadership development in rural women. The first phase of the study involved individual interviews with women recognized as leaders within a rural community. Each of the 25 rural women leaders interviewed was raised on a farm or in a community with a population smaller than 2,000 ...
Eldonna Sylvia +5 more
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2001
Twenty-five percent of the population of the United States lives in rural areas. Women make up about 52% of these residents (Office of Technology Assessment, 1994). People in rural communities are often poorer than in urban communities; have fewer health resources; have long driving times to health care, and are characterized by familiarity among ...
Patricia Winstead-Fry, Elizabeth Wheeler
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Twenty-five percent of the population of the United States lives in rural areas. Women make up about 52% of these residents (Office of Technology Assessment, 1994). People in rural communities are often poorer than in urban communities; have fewer health resources; have long driving times to health care, and are characterized by familiarity among ...
Patricia Winstead-Fry, Elizabeth Wheeler
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Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2002
Abstract This manuscript is the first attempt to apply human behavior theory to examine emerging trends and issues for rural elderly women. Despite a fair amount of recent descriptive information, there is a need for a cohesive theoretical framework to interpret empirical findings, inform practice, and direct future research inquiry. A multidimensional
Michael E. Sherr, Felix C. Blumhardt
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Abstract This manuscript is the first attempt to apply human behavior theory to examine emerging trends and issues for rural elderly women. Despite a fair amount of recent descriptive information, there is a need for a cohesive theoretical framework to interpret empirical findings, inform practice, and direct future research inquiry. A multidimensional
Michael E. Sherr, Felix C. Blumhardt
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Rural Women Walking for Health
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2008The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe rural women's barriers and motivators for participation in a walking program. Twenty rural women, ages 22 to 65, participated in a 12-week walking program. Data from field notes and focus groups were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
Cindy K, Perry +2 more
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Australian Journal of Primary Health, 1998
Rural women in Australia have reduced access to health and illness-management services, live in more hazardous environments, and yet describe themselves as healthier than urban women. These contradictions illustrate some of the consequences of different ways of measuring health. Data based on presentations to hospital for episodes of illness management,
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Rural women in Australia have reduced access to health and illness-management services, live in more hazardous environments, and yet describe themselves as healthier than urban women. These contradictions illustrate some of the consequences of different ways of measuring health. Data based on presentations to hospital for episodes of illness management,
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2019
Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media.
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Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media.
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Women entrepreneurs bridge the gap between the SDGs and the country's socio-economic development. Women's entrepreneurship is crucial for long-term economic, sustainable societies. This is possibly a virtue of women's ability to inventiveness, prioritize sustainability, ecological soundness, and a sense of equality in the professional front catalyzes ...
Sukhmeet Kaur +3 more
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Sukhmeet Kaur +3 more
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Agenda, 1995
For many rural women, believes Ntomb'futhi Zondo, the forthcoming local government elections offer no real hope for empowerment or change in community power ...
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For many rural women, believes Ntomb'futhi Zondo, the forthcoming local government elections offer no real hope for empowerment or change in community power ...
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Women Assess Rurality — A Tailored Rural Idyll
2016In literature on rural society in Spain there is a common understanding that the activities of women are essential to the social and economic sustainability of rural areas (Camarero et al. 1991, Sabate 1992, Garcia Ramon et al., 1994, Garcia Ramon and Baylina 2000, Little 2001, Camarero 2009, Sampedro 2009, MARM 2011). Nevertheless, for several decades
Mireia Baylina +4 more
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