traditional and harmful gender stereotypes. The objectives of the study were to understand the impact that structural and proximal …

goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty reduction. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important …

deficiencies for pregnant and lactating women remain a challenge. Nepal has initiated a number of key interventions to respond to …

birth attendance and most deaths occurred within 48 hours of birth. Inequities by social class and gender were also stark …: less than 40 percent of Scheduled Caste and about 28 percent of Scheduled Tribe women both socially disadvantaged groups … had access to skilled birth attendance; and this figure was equally low at 27.5 percent for women from the lowest wealth …

. Inadequate access to health information and services, as well as inequitable gender norms, contribute to a lack of awareness …

whether SSN interventions produce results and help to improve gender equality for men and women and boys and girls, either as … poverty. This message is intimately related to another main goal of the institution: advancing gender equality. The shared … prosperity goal calls for ensuring that men and women and boys and girls are included in the development process. This review …

developing countries. Yet, transport data are limited overall, and data that address the different patterns of use by women and … men are even scarcer. A few studies have shown, however, that women and men have different transport needs and constraints … women and men use transportation in the developing world. Four common household surveys—income and expenditure surveys …

as adult women, and half of all new HIV infections occur in young people between 15 and 24 years of age (Pathfinder … International, 2011). Young people, particularly adolescent girls and young women, continue to face challenges in meeting their SRH …