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' experiences with some particular technologies in education are related to gender, area of expertise and University of origin. … particular, the expansion of ICT knowledge and experience in higher education is a key component of an educational reform agenda …
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This article focuses on the capabilities of women in sex work—a sector in which a substantial number of women in developing countries find themselves. Sex workers confront important unfreedoms—violence and disease—on a daily basis. How well sex workers can manage these threats has...
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Feminist studies have developed several tools to assess the gender impact of public policy and of budgets in particular …. In this paper we introduce an innovative approach to the gender auditing of public budgets inspired by the capability … perspective to make the capability approach operational in the policy space. Within this extended reproductive approach, gender …
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concerning the relationship between gender and the financial bottom line. The fundamental question remains: Is the financial …
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The Indian Constitution adopted in 1950 enshrines equality and social justice as the fundamental principles of the Indian democratic system. The aim of the Constitution is to empower the society and ensure the dignity of the individual and equality of status among all the citizens of India....
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Education remains to be an important determinant of economic and social opportunities for individuals. However, within …, size and the composition of the family, and education of the parents have a significant impact on the schooling decision …
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The invaluable social and economic contribution that women collectively make is often undervalued and underestimated. This paper attempts to redress this to some extent, by providing a contemporary assessment of women's contribution to on farm work in rural and regional communities in Australia....
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Care work, such as that carried out by 'angelic' nurses, mothers, and other carers, is treated in a dualistic fashion: it is both idealised and poorly valued. The puzzling phenomenon before us is something of a paradox. The objective of this paper is to explain this hitherto unaddressed...
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boards of the world's companies. If green economics means social and environmental justice, then gender must be included in … economics – poverty prevention, climate change prevention, and economic practise and reform. Highlighting gender absence, gender … blindness, and gender justice, the paper explores how women are more likely to be victims of environmental change and of the …
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The issue of whether caring, mothering, and nurturing is something to be escaped, celebrated, or androgynised presents particular challenges to feminists in the green movement. From the German Green Party in the early and mid 1980s to the Third World ecofeminists of today, the debate has proved...
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