either a deflation or an inflation of the ranking for species valued by women and by discussing the implications of that …

This paper discusses existing scenario of informal sector employment and socio-economic challenges faced by informal …

: less than 40 percent of Scheduled Caste and about 28 percent of Scheduled Tribe women both socially disadvantaged groups … had access to skilled birth attendance; and this figure was equally low at 27.5 percent for women from the lowest wealth …

This paper is an attempt to understand the position of Indian women in the family and its influence on their migration … mobility and spousal educational differences which exhibit a linear relation with the women’s migration decision. The empirical … findings suggest the women’s greater involvement on own health care, spousal age and educational differences significantly …

This paper presents two wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850, the first based on daily … series for women’s daily wages is also compared with evidence for men, revealing interesting trends in the gender gap. These … comparisons inform several recent debates first whether or not “the golden age of the English peasantry” included women; and …

In Mexico, the combined prevalence of overweight and obesity among Mexican women increased from 64% in 2000 to 72% in … 2006. In this paper, we report our findings on the relation of women’s body mass index (BMI) with income and lifestyles …-significant association between income and BMI in the overall and urban samples but a significant positive relationship among rural women. Our …

employ to manage their illness. Women living with HIV are confronted with social context vulnerabilities that impede their …-management in a cross-sectional secondary analysis of 260 women living with HIV from two U.S. sites. All social context variables … of HIV domains of HIV self-management. Our data support the idea that women's social context influences their HIV self …

geographical regions, with women having four visits being 7.3 times more likely than those with no prenatal care to deliver at a …, maternal age and education, parity level, and economic status of the birthing women on the place of delivery is found to vary … accessible to urban and rural women from the non-poor households than those from the poor households. The strong influence of …

interviews with 14 women about their symptom appraisal process to demonstrate how many inhabited a liminal space comprised of …”, “Deliberate Ignorance”, and “Passive Resistance.” These women's narratives are juxtaposed with two commonly accepted medical … to account for the sizeable number of women who do not fit this mold (i.e., those who are both aware of the concerning …