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STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN HOUSEHOLD INDUSTRIES IN THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH SULAWESI

Review of Behavioral Aspect in Organizations and Society, 2019
The study was conducted in 4 districts or cities in the province of South Sulawesi, namely Takalar, Maros, Gowa, and Barru. The locations were deliberately chosen with the consideration that they are the potential development areas for women working in product diversification processed in domestic processing industries.
Dwia Aries Tina Pulubuhu, Sutinah Sutinah, Seni Wati, Sri Suro Adhawaty   +3 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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Associations between women's empowerment and children's health status in Ethiopia.

PLoS 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, Solomon Zena Walelign, Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus   +2 more
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Conceptualizing pathways linking women’s empowerment and prematurity in developing countries

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5. Many efforts have focused on clinical approaches to improve the survival of premature babies. There is a need, however, to explore psychosocial, sociocultural,
Patience A. Afulani, Molly Altman, Joseph Musana, May Sudhinaraset   +3 more
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Rethinking Muslim women’s equal rights: faith, property and empowerment [PDF]

, 2015
The pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment, especially in parts of the Arab and Muslim world, struggles in the face of several conundrums.
Sait, M. Siraj
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Women’s empowerment for abortion and family planning decision making among marginalized women in Nepal: a mixed method study

Reproductive Health, 2021
Background Women’s empowerment is multidimensional. Women’s education, employment, income, reproductive healthcare decision making, household level decision making and social status are vital for women’s empowerment. Nepal is committed to achieving women
Heera KC, Mangala Shrestha, Nirmala Pokharel, Surya Raj Niraula, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Surya Bahadur Parajuli   +5 more
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Measuring citizen frames and their integration in the international policy process: a hybrid BERTopic modelling approach

Frontiers in Political Science
Governments and international organizations are exploring new ways of engaging citizens in the policy design process, however scalable ways to test whether citizen frames appear in resulting policies documents remain limited. We present a hybrid BERTopic
Victoria Ustenko, Matthijs Fakkel, Susan Witt, Padma Rao Sahib, Srividya Sheshadri, Rao R. Bhavani   +5 more
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Women’s empowerment and child growth faltering in Ethiopia: evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Despite numerous national and international efforts to alleviate child growth faltering, it remains a global health challenge. There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of women’s empowerment in a wide range of ...
Alemayehu Gonie Mekonnen, Daniel Bogale Odo, Dabere Nigatu, Adem Sav, Kiya Kedir Abagero   +4 more
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Micro-finance, women’s empowerment and fertility decline in Bangladesh: How important was women’s agency? [PDF]

, 2016
As Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen has argued “[Bangladesh’s development achievements have] important lessons for other countries across the globe, [in particular a focus on] reducing gender inequality”. A major avenue through which this emphasis has been
Barker G., Basu A. M., Bledsoe C. H., Cleland J. H., Connelly M. J., Cornwall A., Dyson T., Hartmann B., Khandker S. R., Kishore S., Latif M. A., Livi-Bacci M., Maren Duvendack, Overholt C., Palmer-Jones R. W., Presser H., Rahman M. M., Richard Palmer-Jones, Robertson T., Schoumaker B., Shapiro D., Vaessen J., World Bank, World Bank   +23 more
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Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh: a randomised control trial protocol

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction There is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women’s empowerment.
Ashraful Alam, Kingsley Emwinyore Agho, Tanvir Huda, Shams E Arifeen, Tazeen Tahsina, Sumithra Muthayya, Michael John Dibley, Jasmin Khan, Elizabeth K Kirkwood, John Frederick Hoddinott, Tracey Lea Laba, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Afrin Iqbal, Nazia Binte Ali, Saad Ullah, Nicholas Goodwin, M Munirul Islam, Gulshan Ara   +17 more
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