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Aligning household decision-making with work and education: A comparative analysis of women's empowerment

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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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, Farideh Ramezani, Esmael Nasiri Hend Khale, amene kamali sarvestani   +3 more
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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, Greg Seymour, Menale Kassie, Geoffrey Muricho, Beatrice Wambui Muriithi   +4 more
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A Three-Dimensional Model of Women’s Empowerment: Implications in the Field of Microfinance and Future Directions

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, Nina Hansen, Sabine Otten, Robert Lensink, Robert Lensink   +4 more
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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

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, A. L. Wirtz, S. Bundgaard, A. Nair, G. Luttah, S. Ngugi, N. Glass   +6 more
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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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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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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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A Re-reading of the Mechanisms of Women's Empowerment in the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]

‫سیاست متعالیه‏
Empowerment is individual development based on one's own interests in attaining individual and social objectives. Women's empowerment involves action to upgrade the status of women through education, increasing awareness, literacy, and learning how to ...
Elnaz Nikseresht Nia, Asadollah Athari, Hasan Shamsini Ghiasvand   +2 more
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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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