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Violence against women (VAW) has traditionally been of concern to feminists and cultural sociologists, and in recent … decades, has also begun to be diagnosed and understood as a development problem. However, 20 women practitioners and scholars …
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experiences of women civil engineers in the UK to critically discuss the possibilities for women to pursue a management pathway … within construction. A feminist theoretical framework has been used to analyse data from 31 in-depth interviews with women … the presenteeism ethos of the sector as well as the material constraints of construction sites. Women are taking up senior …
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participation. Women frequently commit to and actively balance more than one significant life activity - each of which can be … trade union career can often constitute an alternative or parallel career for women, to which some women commit the energy …
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This article adopts a socio-cultural lens to examine the role of Buddhism in highly skilled women workers’ careers in …
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Mexican women, particularly married women, living in the United States appear to allocate far more of their time to … waged work than do women in Mexico. The fierce debate among social scientists over the sources of American womenâ … nonwaged work, the importance of higher wages for pulling women into employment, the growth of work perceived as â …
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Women constitute half of the world’s population. The participation of women in the economy is important in order to … enhance and contribute towards raising the economic potential of a country. Long-standing inequalities have prevented women … worldwide on the stock market participation of women has been explored and analyzed in terms of their objectives, research …
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led to re-peasantization processes coming back on the national agenda, with women participating in the process of land … acquisition and investing in farming activities. In this article, we discuss the role that women have been playing in the new … activities undertaken by women. The article demonstrates how re-peasantization processes have led to the recognition of land as a …
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official and media articles on the nexus between informal sector, women entrepreneurship and regional integration. Despite this … notion of ‘powerless places and placeless powers’ that affect informal sector, women entrepreneurship and regional …
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Insofar as gender is still so often equated with women alone, the move from Women in Development to Gender in … and women and between men - have rarely been drawn into development programmes in any substantial way. This paper …
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although the demographic transition is generally a positive process for women, there is not always a straightforward link to …
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