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Gender, Caste, Class, and Health Care Access
Iyer, Aditi - eSocialSciences - 2005
opportunities for a gender analysis along the crosscutting axes of caste, class, age and life stage. Such an exercise is more …
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The limits of tolerance and equality,or towards a 'new tolerance' and equality
eSocialSciences - 2006
view issues of gender, sect, class and colonial state formation. The tentative intersectional theoretical framework …Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation Women … gender analysis. These absences have discursive and material implications for tackling women’s equality in a society in …
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Human Rights in Malaysia: Challenges and Constraints in the Malaysian Context
Abdullah, Mohammad Hirman Ritom - eSocialSciences - 2012
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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Formalizing the Informal Economy: Women’s Autonomous Self-Employment in Rural South India
Watson, Samantha - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in rural south India alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This study takes advantage of data from the year 2000 in the Indian National Sample...
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Nepal: Elusive Democracy and Uncertain Political System
Baral, Lok Raj - eSocialSciences - 2012
Persistence and breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be attractive amidst setbacks and discontinuity. So it remains perennially elusive, despite having undergone democratic upheavals. Some significant variables such as ideology, essence of...
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Research Study on Women’s Empowerment, Good-governance and Decentralisation : Assuring Women’s Participation in Panchayats of Two Backward Districts of Northern Part of West Be...
Sarkar, Dilip Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2012
The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The role performance, role awareness and role perception of the elected women Panchayats have been explored to understand the impact...
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Defining Human Differences in Biomedicine
Brown, Maggie - eSocialSciences - 2007
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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Gender, Poverty And Development: Gender Sensitive Budgeting And Other 'Best Practices'
Dewan, Ritu - eSocialSciences - 2009
Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - eSocialSciences - 2013
developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. The gender gaps in …
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Financial Literacy among Working Young in Urban India
Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K; Jacob, Joshy; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. While the influence of several factors such as gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945292