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The Effect of Women Entrepreneurship and Perception of Women's Work on the Development of Women's Brand Agricultural Tourism (Case Study: Oramanat Area) [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه زن و جامعه, 2023
Women's empowerment has become a vital component of sustainable tourism development in tourism destinations. At the same time, achieving gender equality and women's empowerment is the fifth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Program. Also,
Yazdan Shirmohammadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women's empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women's empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index.
Gracious M Diiro   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tourism and Women Empowerment in Developing Economies: Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesiRASD Journal of Management, 2022
Employment, gender equality, and women's empowerment can boost tourism's sustainability. The tourism business is dominated by women, but it still has a lot of serious imbalances.
Sadia Mahwish, Muhammad Atif Nawaz
doaj   +1 more source

A Three-Dimensional Model of Women’s Empowerment: Implications in the Field of Microfinance and Future Directions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Women’s empowerment is an important goal in achieving sustainable development worldwide. Offering access to microfinance services to women is one way to increase women’s empowerment.
Marloes A. Huis   +4 more
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Impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment

open access: yesJournal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2022
Women’s economic empowerment a strategy aimed at enabling women in decision-making, increment in income and asset ownership. The main aim of the study is to examine the impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment.
Belay Mengstie
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship of women's status and empowerment with skilled birth attendant use in Senegal and Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BackgroundMaternal mortality remains unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa with 179,000 deaths occurring each year, accounting for 2-thirds of maternal deaths worldwide.
Gipson, Jessica D, Shimamoto, Kyoko
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First birth and the trajectory of women’s empowerment in Egypt

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Women’s empowerment is often used to explain changes in reproductive behavior, but no consideration is given to how reproductive events can shape women’s empowerment over time. Fertility may cause changes in women’s empowerment, or they may be
Goleen Samari
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Empowerment of Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This document presents a two page overview of UN Women's work on economic empowerment: "Many international commitments support women's economic empowerment, including the Beijing Platform for Action, [CEDAW] and a series of [ILO] conventions on gender ...

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Feasibility and acceptability of a universal screening and referral protocol for gender-based violence with women seeking care in health clinics in Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2017
Background. Gender-based violence (GBV) is both a global public health problem and violation of human rights.
A. Vu   +6 more
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Associations between women's empowerment and children's health status in Ethiopia.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Although women's empowerment has gained attention over the last two decades, our understanding of the associations between different dimensions of women's empowerment and different children's health outcomes is limited.
Solomon Kibret Abreha   +2 more
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