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A Study of Children Dependent on Prostitutes in Selected Areas of Uttar Pradesh
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2010
Uttar Pradesh to examine the social problem of trafficking and prostitution in children and women and status of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751877
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Inside the Family A Report on Democratic Rights of Women
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2008
relate all these aspects to the function of the family in violating the democratic rights of women. …. position of women; 3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic development by the State and their consequent … marginalization and exploitation in the labour force; 4. the perpetuation of the notion of the family as a private area governed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487555
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Improving Access to Mental Health Care and Psychosocial Support within a Fragile Context: A Case Study from Afghanistan
Ventevogel, Peter - eSocialSciences - 2012
Afghanistan is an example of a ‘‘fragile state,’’ characterised by a government that lacks the capacity to provide core services and basic security to its population. Improving health care within fragile states needs to focus on quick and tangible improvement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133148
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Women and the RSS
Ganneri, Namrata - eSocialSciences - 2014
Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehensive understanding of the multiplicity of women’s lives, power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133198
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
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 gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945217
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"I did not ask for it". Sexual Harassment: Impressions from Mumbai
Gartenberg, Indira; Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing their female friends. Santos and Fernandez had to lose their lives in refusing to accept this...
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Conflict, Crisis, and Abuse in Dharavi, Mumbai: Experiences from Six Years at a Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children
Daruwalla, Nayreen; Osrin, David; Fernandez, Armida; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
, training, protocols, and resources, all of which are in short supply. The Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children is running …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496178
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Negotiating Reproductive Health Neds In A Conflict Situation In The Kashmir Valley
Khanday, Zamrooda - eSocialSciences - 2005
over. This study tries to look at the ways in which Kashmiri women coped with the restrictions placed on them by society …, the family, and circumstances. How have they survived in spite of negligible medical options? …
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