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The relationship between health literacy and empowerment in pregnant women: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Maternal health literacy is defined as the acquisition of required cognitive and social skills to enable women to access, understand, appraise, and use the information needed to maintain and enhance their health conditions.
N. Tavananezhad   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Economic Empowerment of Women through NGO: A Case Study

open access: yesDera Natung Government College Research Journal, 2017
Empowerment can be described as a process which helps people to have their control over the factors which affect their lives. Empowerment of women means developing them as more aware individuals, who are economically productive and independent and are ...
Mringanka Saikia, Pankaj Saikia
doaj   +1 more source

The dilemma of women empowerment in informal artisanal and small-scale gold ore mining in Ghana

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
For several years, women demand more decision-making power from their husbands and the society. Studies indicate that egalitarian decision-making power can be beneficial in many important ways to the household and society, and the pathway to this desire ...
James Natia Adam   +3 more
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Dimensions and Determinants of Women Empowerment in Developing Countries

open access: yes, 2020
Received: 10 June 2020 Accepted: 17 August 2020 This study is an attempt to construct a women empowerment index using multi-dimensional factors in the context of demographic and socio-economic characteristics of women’s living conditions at household ...
M. A. Soharwardi, T. Ahmad
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context

open access: yesInternational Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2022
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to develop an empirically informed framework to analyze women empowerment and entrepreneurship, contextualized within a collective society.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted 15 in-depth semi-structured ...
P. Ng, B. P. Wood, B. Bastian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Socio-economic and Socio-demographic Determinants of Women Empowerment: Empirical Evidence From the Districts of Ghizer and Gilgit, Northern Pakistan

open access: yesJournal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2020
Women empowerment has remained the most deliberate subject and many social scientists have explored this subject in their respective fields. Women empowerment has assorted dimensions, however this study focuses only on two dimensions’ women decision ...
Saranjam Baig, Salma Nusrat, Salma Bano
doaj   +1 more source

Women’s Empowerment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This entry discusses women's empowerment, a concept commonly used in academic and nonacademic contexts. Four themes are discussed: conceptualizing and problematizing what is meant by the term “women's empowerment,” outlining differing components in understanding women's empowerment, reviewing the challenges in measuring women's empowerment, and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring the role of microfinance in women’s empowerment and entrepreneurial development: a qualitative study

open access: yesFuture Business Journal, 2022
In developing countries, women’s empowerment is a major concern. Several efforts were made to tackle this issue as the aims of poverty reduction and development cannot be achieved without giving attention to women’s empowerment.
A. Khursheed
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Glance Into the Online World of Children: A study to Examine the Online Activities of Children in Indonesia

open access: yesASEAN Social Work Journal
Digital technology has influenced children's lives, shaping their norms, attitudes, and behaviours. This study aims to understand the online behaviours of children in Indonesia, exploring their activities, risks, and safety measures.
Karen Muller   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Commercial hospitality : a vehicle for the sustainable empowerment of Nepali women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
To illustrate how commercial hospitality has catalysed sustainable social change in Nepal through empowering women. Utilising a new framework, developed by combining existing theories, empowerment of women Tea House owners/ managers is assessed. Within a
Maclaren, Andrew C.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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