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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale and scope of the pandemic and its anticipated impact on education systems in heavily infected sub-Saharan African countries. It looks for lessons derived from twenty years of...
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home as well as at work. For example, 45 per cent of the measurable Gross Domestic Income comes from the work of women in … the world’s richest countries. However, the women are discriminated both at work and at home. Further, they are vulnerable … to conflicts, wars and terrorism. The women in Eritrea are fighting for their rights and freedom. This paper explores the …
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have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … bring in miseries to the women folks. However, in the long run, women in this region are going to gain the lion’s share of …
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the same quantity of farm products. Historically, women have been the managers of natural resources as they are dependent … rendered them scarce. The rural women collect over 28% of all energy consumed in India in the form of firewood. Most of the 140 …-scale migration to urban areas. Women are being forced to take up more drudgerous jobs as a source of livelihood as most of the …
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As a case study on the status of women in the economics profession, this article analyzes the fascinating career of … Anne P. Carter. Prior to 1966 there were no women in the economics faculty at Harvard. In 1966 Carter became the first … Waltham, Massachusetts. The situation of women at Harvard was still not encouraging. In 1967 she was one of the first women to …
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This paper examines the decision of Turkish women to participate in the labor force. We administered a original survey … questionnaire in 2009 to 518 non-working women. Employing logistic regression, we found that religious belief is a crucial factor … that discourages women from participating in the labor market. In particular, the regular performance of religious rituals …
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This paper focuses on the inclusion of women in the Moroccan labor markets and businesses through the role of higher … variable in relation to gender. It then analyzes the relationships between education and the inclusion of women in the labor … the inclusion of women in the labor market and in business creation. Schooling of women with higher education attainment …
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Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … representation of women at the level of the smallest unit of Philippine government—the village or barangay. Data comparison—within a … span of 11 years—using the results of the July 15, 2002 and October 28, 2013 barangay elections, shows an increase of women …
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Abstract The Asian economic crisis which began with the floating of the bhat by Thailand on July 1 1997 is still having devastating effects on the livelihood and the well being of millions of people in many parts of the world. The financial crisis spread from Thailand to other Asian countries,...
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This paper examines the decision of Turkish women to participate in the labor force. We administered a original survey … questionnaire in 2009 to 518 non-working women. Employing logistic regression, we found that religious belief is a crucial factor … that discourages women from participating in the labor market. In particular, the regular performance of religious rituals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112645