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Perceptions of Air Quality and Sense of Place among Women in Northeast Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Gallina, Melissa; Williams, Allison - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 2 (2014) 3, pp. 67-77
Research on environmental health risks suggests that public perceptions of risk may be greater than quantitative health risk assessments, especially amongst vulnerable groups such as women and immigrants. This study uses the environmental stress and coping framework to examine individual...
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Social factors affecting women's susceptibility to HIV in India
Lall, Priya - 2014
India is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV …-risk population. This paper seeks to assess social factors associated with the transmission of HIV based on demographic determinants … for HIV as part of the survey, it provides regional estimates of HIV serostatus for the general population in India …
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Social Factors Affecting Women's Susceptibility to HIV in India
Lall, Priya - 2014
India is the global epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV …-risk population. This paper assesses social factors associated with the transmission of HIV based on demographic determinants, such as … serostatus, as HIV-positive women were significantly more likely to have a low level of education than their HIV …
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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Kerr, William; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2012
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...
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Women in / and Academia
DASCALU, Ph.D. PostDoc Scholar Cristina-Emanuela - In: Conferinta Stiintifica Internationala Logos … 1 (2011) February, pp. 63-63
This research paper, both quantitative (drawing on statistical data and analyses, employing coding practices and making use of diverse questionnaires) and qualitative (using in-depth interviews, observations and case studies) addresses how and why institutionalized practices and structures...
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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...
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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment : trends in WTO members
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women
Comolli, Chiara Ludovica; Bernardi, Fabrizio - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...
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Why Veil? Religious Headscarves and The Public Role of Women
Shofia, Naila - 2022
I show that new economic opportunities that compel women to abandon their domestic roles have driven the adoption of religious veiling. Using human-coded data of around a quarter million photographs of pupils attached to Indonesian public high school yearbooks, I measure the prevalence of...
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