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fertility, and (iv) there is a need for more public spending on childcare for age 6-11 in Japan and Korea to help women continue …
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, which are characterized by early marriage and low educational profiles. An interview analysis with parents of young women … indicated that under the continuing de-agrarianization among rural households, women are expected to have their own cash income …
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This study uses a sample survey methodology to investigate the factors underlying the employment decisions of female garment workers in Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones (EPZs). It finds that most are pushed rather than pulled into EPZ employment by poverty and a weak labour market. Workers...
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Ecuadorians live in Spain, and constitute one of the largest immigrant national groups in this country, alongside Moroccans. Women … interviews with Ecuadorian women in Spain and Ecuador, and informed by feminist methodologies. It situates the epistemological … standpoints of women from (lower) middle and professional classes within recent Ecuadorian migrations, while analyzing the impact …
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American labor movement depended on the successful organization of women workers in the US South. In 2005, activists, scholars … and labor organizers make markedly similar arguments about the important role being played by young women entering â … industrialization and globalization. In both groups, a significant minority of women responded to the economic and social changes …
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This study provides additional insights into the nature of variations in heights of adult Indian women based on the …
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the previously silenced narratives of non-Western women must be given a new role and status, in a modern transnational …
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in the case of historically oppressed groups (the largest being women) such as cultural/religious minorities, homosexuals …
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The article employs the example of the use of the writ of Habeas Corpus in cases involving lesbian women in India … women with the law as well as with the women’s movement and the queer movement in India. The article proposes a critical …
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stability. Women farmers currently account for 45–80 per cent of all food production in developing countries depending on the … region. When climate change-related disasters strike, women are more vulnerable than men, and the workload of women and girls … increases. In India, women are actively engaged in agricultural activities, including paddy cultivation and fishing, which are …
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