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Demographic Research, 2023 Background: Although women's empowerment is one of the key concepts in development, it has proven challenging to measure it. Empirical studies have tended to focus on a cause-and-effect analysis of empowerment and using composite measures to compare ...
Sojin Yu, Feinian Chen, Sonalde Desai
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Women's empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya. [PDF]
PLoS 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
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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]
فصلنامه 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
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Frontiers 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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Economic Empowerment of Women [PDF]
, 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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Impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment
Journal 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
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Tourism and Women Empowerment in Developing Economies: Systematic Literature Review
iRASD 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
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Cambridge 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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First birth and the trajectory of women’s empowerment in Egypt
BMC 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
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The relationship of women's status and empowerment with skilled birth attendant use in Senegal and Tanzania. [PDF]
, 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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