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The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations … through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women … gender dynamics operating in the economy and in the civil society. …
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The paper discusses some of the main human rights areas of concern within Malaysia, over the years. [Working Paper Series No. 12]. URL:[http://www.ieas.unimas.my/images/stories/hirmanritom.pdf].
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development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
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In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …
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Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score … data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender …
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Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us- ing survey data from India.
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. . African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected. The signifi cant gender and racial …
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An extensive literature reflects millennia of concern over what we humans call ourselves and others. All life sciences are now grappling further with how to categorize and study the nearly infinite polymorphisms within and among “species†as awareness grows that the species concept...
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selections for others, regardless of the gender of the receiver and the type of relationship between the giver and receiver. We … interest (measured with an autism questionnaire), but not differences in interpersonal reactivity, explain gender differences …
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Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by … underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This … article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. …
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