women. She tirelessly supported women survivors of dowry harassment, rape victims, crimes of honour (‘fallen†women whose …

, and social status of women continue to contribute to the high prevalence of underweight in children under five. …

It has often been hypothesized that new agricultural technologies could have an adverse impact on women because … introduction of new technologies results in increased payments to women for their increased labor on the cotton fields … expansion of household cotton cultivation is a reduction in incomes of women who cultivate private plots. Short-run policy …

women. It further examined whether a relationship existed between marital success/failure and the predictor variables of …

process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women …, which came into operation on January 1, 2011. UN Women incorporates four existing parts of the UN system dealing with women … structure for the situation of women worldwide from the perspective of international law. Is UN Women simply a bureaucratic …

Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an … economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women … does in Lomé. When women in Dakar take part in an economic activity outside the domestic sphere this clashes with the …

Women as a social group are vulnerable to food insecurity despite being primary actors in the food chain. The problem … women and children, as well as social and economic impacts in terms of fewer opportunities for education and greater … instances of early marriages. A comparison of indicators used to assess vulnerabilities of women in the two regions shows that …

We argue that women’s empowerment is an ongoing, incremental, and relational process that occurs across scales and …