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‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of participatory research in rice breeding on poor rice farming households with emphasis on women farmers: a case study in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India [PDF]

, 2016
For the past years since the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Systemwide Initiative on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA) was initiated, guides for impact assessment of PRGA have been developed (Lilja and
Atlin, Gary, Paris, Thelma, Reyes, Amelia de los, Singh, Abha, Singh, V.   +4 more
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How Economic Empowerment Reduces Women’s Reproductive Health Vulnerability: Evidence from Northern Tanzania [PDF]

, 2015
This article uses data from Northern Tanzania to analyse how economic empowerment helps women reduce their reproductive health (RH) vulnerability. It analyses the effect of women’s employment and economic contribution to their household on health care ...
D'Exelle, Ben, Westeneng, Judith
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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart, Kate Fitz‐Gibbon, Steven Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women’s Autonomy in the Context of Rural Pakistan [PDF]

The paper explores the elements that constitute women’s autonomy in rural Pakistan. Hitherto most research on women’s status in Pakistan has either been restricted to proxy measures of women’s status generally or to the urban areas.
Shahnaz Kazi, Zeba Ayesha Sathar
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Gender empowerment through ICTs: potential and challenges for women in the Caribbean [PDF]

, 2006
Information communication technologies (ICTs) have been promoted as tools for national development and for gender empowerment in many developing countries. In the Caribbean, governments, non-governmental organizations and training institutes play a key
Muturi, Nancy W.
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Women’s Access to Land and Economic Empowerment in Selected Nigerian Communities [PDF]

, 2015
Despite various land policies that prescribe rights to land in many societies, women remain marginalized in access to and economic utilization of land.
A Whitehead, AJ Egwakhe, C Asiedu, C Doss, EF Fabiyi, GB Dahl, K Allendorf, K Deininger, K Deininger, K Kleinbooi, L Cotula, M Nidhiya   +11 more
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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

European guidelines from the EHTG and ESCP for Lynch syndrome: an updated third edition of the Mallorca guidelines based on gene and gender

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä, A. Latchford, I. Negoi, A. Sampaio Soares, R. Jimenez‐Rodriguez, L. Sánchez‐Guillén, D. G. Evans, N. Ryan, E. J. Crosbie, M. Dominguez‐Valentin, J. Burn, M. Kloor, M. von Knebel Doeberitz, F. J. B. van Duijnhoven, P. Quirke, J. R. Sampson, P. Møller, G. Möslein, on behalf of the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP)   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between self-esteem and empowerment of women in fertility

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2017
Background and purpose: Empowerment is considered as one of the health efficiency components and is regarded as a personal right. In the Millennium Development Goals there is a particular focus on women's empowerment.
Zahra Kiani, Masuomeh Simbar, Mahrokh Dolatian, Farid Zayeri   +3 more
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