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From sari to salwar kameez : changes in the lives of female garment workers in Bangladesh : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University [PDF]
, 2003 This thesis aims to give voice to what female garment workers attending the Working Women's Education Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh perceive as personal changes that have occurred in their lives since taking up employment in the Ready Made Garment Industry.
Hayes-Smith, Julienne
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PLoS ONE, 2021 This paper draws on data from five sub-Sahara African countries; Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique consisting of 10,041 married women who were cohabitating with a male spouse. The study aim was to investigate the relationship between women's
Michael Nnachebe Onah +2 more
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Draft Declaration: Women's Economic Empowerment for Peacebuilding [PDF]
, 2013 This document presents the members of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission. Assembled at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 September 2013, under the chairmanship of Her Excellency Vesna Pusi?, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister ...
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Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment [PDF]
, 2014 When women are economically empowered, communities and nations benefit. Yet, there has been a crucial knowledge gap regarding the most effective interventions that directly advance women's economic opportunities.
Mayra Buvinic, Rebecca Furst-Nichols
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The Business of Empowering Women [PDF]
, 2010 The goal of this business case is to inform private sector leaders about the potential impact of women's economic empowerment in developing countries and emerging markets, increase their understanding of some of the issues, challenges, and opportunities ...
Deanna Allan
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Empowering pastoralist women through social innovations in Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia
Social Sciences and Humanities OpenEnsuring sustainable development in Africa necessitates empowering women through different initiatives, including social innovations. This is because the existing gender-based disparities and resultant inequalities are evident in Africa, limiting women's
Tafesse Matewos +2 more
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Women's Empowerment: What Works? [PDF]
Journal of International Development, 2016 AbstractWith radical roots in the 1980s, women's empowerment is now a mainstream development concern. Much of the narrative focuses on instrumental gains—what women can do for development rather than what development can do for women. Empowerment is treated as a destination reached through development's equivalent of motorways: programmes rolled out ...
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Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment [PDF]
Feminism & Psychology, 1994 This article critically examines the ideology of empowerment and its links to debates about solidarity and difference among women, especially those from oppressed and minority collectivities. The notions of community, identity, culture and ethnicity are examined together with issues of women's citizenship and coalition politics.
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The Role and Impact of Corruption in the Effect of Women's Political Empowerment on Human Development in Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and EconomicsWomen's Political Empowerment is one of the key factors influencing human development; however, in the presence of political corruption, it may exert varying effects on human development.
Mahdi Shahraki
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Women's Economic Empowerment: Key Issues and Policy Options [PDF]
, 2009 The central argument of the paper is organised around the limits to markets as a means of overcoming ?durable inequalities' which reflect long-established power relations and the need for public action by states and civil society to address these ...
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