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National Journal of Community MedicineIntroduction: Women's empowerment is crucial for gender equality. This study, utilizing NFHS 4 and 5 data, assesses GBV and women's empowerment, including health indicators in Karnataka and India, aiming to evaluate achievements and challenges impacting
Namratha Kulkarni, Rizwana B Shaikh
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Does micro-credit empower women : evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]
This paper examines the effects of men's and women's participation in group-based micro-credit programs on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women's autonomy and gender relations within the household.
Cartwright, Jennifer +2 more
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The Unhappy Marriage of Theory and Practice: An Analysis of a Battered Women\u27s Shelter [PDF]
, 1988 Focuses on the role of battered women\u27s shelters in the U.S. as a response to the problem of violence against women in society. Examination of the battered women\u27s movement and the shelters the movement has spawned; Contradictions between feminist ...
Murray, Susan B
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"Deconstructing Postmodernism and the Mainstream Developmental Discourse of Women's Empowerment in the (South) Asian Context" [PDF]
This paper starts with an initial gesture accepting the validity of many of the criticisms of modernity by some leading postmodern thinkers. From this initial position, it then evaluates the postmodernist positions themselves with regards to democracy ...
Haider A Khan
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Nature and Impact of Women’s Participation in Economic Activities in Rural Bangladesh: Insights from Household Surveys [PDF]
This paper has been prepared as part of CPD's ongoing agricultural policy research. The paper was presented at the dialogue on Women's Contribution to Rural Economic Activities: Making the Invisible Visible. It presents some empirical evidences of recent
Mahabub Hossain, Manik Lal Bose
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Empowering the frailty: dissecting the role of microcredit [PDF]
The present paper seeks to dissect the significance of micro-credit in empowering women. It starts with a brief discussion on the role of micro-credit in poverty alleviation in general, widely acclaimed in contrast to the top-down policies.
Asalatha, B. P. +1 more
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A study of food aid leakage in Bangladesh [PDF]
The estimated average leakage in the Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) programme due to short ration and undercoverage is 8 percent of the total wheat allotment.
Ahmed, Akhter U. +3 more
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Endogenous Women's Autonomy and the Use of Reproductive Health Services: Empirical Evidence from Tajikistan [PDF]
Though gender equity is widely considered to be a key to improving maternal health in developing countries, little empirical evidence has been presented to support this claim.
Yusuke Kamiya
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Reproductive politics and women's empowerment; how does geopolitics control women? [PDF]
Front Glob Womens HealthDelanerolle G +9 more
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