Microcredit for women is a commonly used strategy for women empowerment. Based on longitudinal qualitative research … with rural women who are involved in an NGO-run micro-lending program in Ghana, this paper examines the empowerment effects … of rural women’s access to microcredit. …

work and caring roles between mean and women. This aim has inspired social scientists to investigate the conditions for and … participation of women has increased while men s share in household and caring tasks has remained constant, and in some cases even …

women between 20 to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition and over nutrition and a quantile regression … wealth status impact BMI more across all the quantiles. Women’s autonomy index shows a positive impact only for higher levels … of the index value but the magnitude is very small. In comparison to this, poor dietary diversity, women with younger …

According to World Health Organization (2013), 30% of even-partnered women have experienced either physical or …, approve or favor this type of violence. This paper explores the extent to which tolerant attitudes to violence against women …

for species valued by women and by discussing the implications of that complexity. …