Women S Roles And Statuses The World Over

Author : Stephanie Hepburn,Rita J. Simon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739150498

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Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over by Stephanie Hepburn,Rita J. Simon Pdf

Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over stands alone in the unique contribution it makes to the field of women's rights. Based solely on statistics and empirical data as opposed to opinion, authors Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon have crafted an important contribution to the study of women in society by comparing women's position in society within 26 nations throughout the world. This distinctive work addresses the status of women in the areas of education, work force, marriage and divorce, the Constitution, abortion and contraceptives, public office, military service, and health care. The countries selected reflect a representative pool of the world's cultures, religions, traditions, races, laws, and politics. Hepburn and Simon present the weaknesses, strengths, and progress or digression of each of the selected nations, painting a clear picture of how much more progress must occur in order to set men and women on equal footing. Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over is intended to serve scholars and general audiences alike as a handbook providing empirical data and comprehensive references on the social issues, problems, and practices that affect women today.

Author : Lynne Brydon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Sex role
ISBN : 0813514711

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Women in the Third World by Lynne Brydon Pdf

Women in the Third World provides an up-to-date general account and review of research on the roles and status of women in contemporary Third World societies. The book focuses on four major themes of underdevelopment which have particular relevance for gender roles and relations: the household, production, reproduction and policy. These issues are illustrated with material from rural and urban areas in all parts of the Third World. The book summarizes significant ideas and findings. Lynne Brydon and Sylvia Chang have avoided a narrow focus on particular regions and countries to provide a synoptic overview. In addition to being a valuable source of reference for scholars interested in gender and development in the Third World, the book also attempts to pinpoint fundamental aspects of gender inequality which apply to women everywhere. The overriding conclusion of the book is that women's experiences of development are generally negative and that intervention is urgently required to prevent their positions relative to men's deteriorating still further.

Author : United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951D00633180O

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The Role and Status of Women Workers in the United States and Japan by United States. Women's Bureau Pdf

Author : Digumarti Bhaskara Rao
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8176481696

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Status and Advancement of Women by Digumarti Bhaskara Rao Pdf

Reviews the problems and priorities as well as international bills and actions relating to the advancement of women. Covers women and work, their health and education, violence and poverty, the UN Action for Women, the Beijing Declaration, and the Commission on the Status of Women.

Author : Man Singh Das,Vijay Kumar Gupta
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8185880530

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Social Status of Women in Developing Countries by Man Singh Das,Vijay Kumar Gupta Pdf

The book focuses on the past traditional roles of women and also identifies direction of change,rate of change and the causes of change in women's status.It hasalso been pointed out that these recent developments in the status of women may become the future sociology of changing sex roles in the developing countries and may recast marriage and family in new and different molds.

Author : C. Chakrapani,S. Vijaya Kumar
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8185880271

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Changing Status and Role of Women in Indian Society by C. Chakrapani,S. Vijaya Kumar Pdf

The Multi-disciplinary and comprehensive collection of articles presented in this volume provides a valuable discussion on the status and role of the women in development of the society. Till recently, women were treated on a different pedestal, depriving them of their rights but reminding them of their duties. But with the changing times, the role of women has changed from child bearing and rearing to bread earner. This book brings under one cover the role of women in the changing society and their changing roles under the broad categories of Health, Education, Employment, Politics, Popular Movements and Development.

Author : R. K. Punia
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Women in agriculture
ISBN : 8172110065

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Women in Agriculture: Their status and role by R. K. Punia Pdf

This is the first specialised volume with a holistic approach dealing with the most vulnerable and neglected section of workers in unorganised sector of agriculture. Tracing women's role and status in the historical perspective, existing situational analysis and making future projections are the main sub-themes discussed threadbare. Women workers in different agro-ecological and types of farming have been analysed by various scholars. Papers on technology and women bring out, among other things, a situational analysis, work conditions in home and farm, wages, bearing on her farm employment and participation. Prospective role and status have been projected in the changing techno-economic context that warrants about the displacement of women workers in developing agriculture. In the series, this volume focusses on the issues of educational problems of the rural women in general and specialised training needs, facilities available and utilization of these in particular for providing them appropriate place in the prospective agriculture. Training needs of different groups in different agroclimatic and cultural contexts have been compiled at one place. Multiplicity of institutions has certainly benefited women fold but mushrooming of voluntary agencies is not desirable in spite of the best performance of voluntary agencies. What role different institutional structures have played in the education and training of women is discussed at length and future course of involvements is debated. Different agricultural development strategies adopted since independence have been critically examined for assessing the place of women in them and urgent action needed to meet the future challenges.

Author : Shamim Aleem
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781665515931

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The Status of Women in the Muslim World by Shamim Aleem Pdf

Gender Equality is at the heart of human rights and United Nations values. The U.N. Charter (1945) adopted the principle of “equal rights for men and women”. But in spite of this universal declaration women’s secondary status and oppression persist. There is no country in the world where women enjoy equal status of men. There are 54 countries with Muslim majority in the world, many of them are in the race for gender equality, but many are lagging behind, in spite of the fact that the Quran has given equal rights to women. The Author has tried to peep into the system to see the status of women and to identify the hurdles in the way of progress. This is just a modest attempt, the subject is very comprehensive. She looks forward to the governments and scholars to work out a feasible model of the family and the role of women in the light of the Quran and Sunnah. The prosperity and the happiness of the Family depends on the fair relationship between husband and wife, which in turn contributes to the peace and prosperity of the world at large.

Author : Katherine Bain
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451469929

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Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor in the First Two Centuries C.E. by Katherine Bain Pdf

Rethinking the socioeconomic status of women in the Roman world. Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world - discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view - Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that women's leadership in social associations - and by implication in Jewish and Christian congregations as well - was even more frequent than has been imagined. -- Book Cover.

Author : V. Mohini Giri
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8121208564

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Deprived Devis by V. Mohini Giri Pdf

This book is a collection of selected speeches and articles written by Dr. Mohini Giri over the past few years with focus on patriarchy and the evils of the traditional caste system, which hampers women empowerment and gender equality. Discussing the changing role of women, Dr. Giri strongly advocates the Millennium Development Goals put forward by the United Nations as way to empower women economically, socially and politically through education, healthcare, legal and social provisions and through advocacy of 33 per cent reservation in parliament by changing the mindset of men. The issues of care for the elderly, death penalty, torture, domestic violence, human rights, dowry system also been tackled. Dr. Giri also discusses the role of women in peace building with emphasis on relations with neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh through peace initiatives and cause of rehabilitation of war widows.

Author : Robert Max Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674057289

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Destined for Equality by Robert Max Jackson Pdf

Men and women remain unequal in the United States, but in this provocative book, Robert Max Jackson demonstrates that gender inequality is irrevocably crumbling. Destined for Equality, the first integrated analysis of gender inequality's modern decline, tells the story of that progressive movement toward equality over the past two centuries in America, showing that women's status has risen consistently and continuously. Jackson asserts that women's rising status has been due largely to the emergence of modern political and economic organizations, which have transformed institutional priorities concerning gender. Although individual politicians and businessmen generally believed women should remain in their traditional roles, Jackson shows that it was simply not in the interests of modern enterprise and government to foster inequality. The search for profits, votes, organizational rationality, and stability all favored a gender-neutral approach that improved women's status. The inherent gender impartiality of organizational interests won out over the prejudiced preferences of the men who ran them. As economic power migrated into large-scale organizations inherently indifferent to gender distinctions, the patriarchal model lost its social and cultural sway, and women's continual efforts to rise in the world became steadily more successful. Total gender equality will eventually prevail; the only questions remaining are what it will look like, and how and when it will arrive.

Author : Lisa C. Smith
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896291348

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The Importance of Women's Status for Child Nutrition in Developing Countries by Lisa C. Smith Pdf

Until recently the role of women's social status in determining their children's nutritional health went largely unnoticed. That is, until researchers began to ponder the Asian Enigma- the question of why malnutrition is much more prevalent among children in South Asia than in Sub-Saharan Africa, even though South Asia surpasses Sub-Saharan Africa in most of the principal determinants of child nutrition. This report uses data from 36 countries in three developing regions to establish empirically that women's status, defined as women's power relative to men's, is an important determinant of children's nutritional status. It finds that the pathways through which status influences child nutrition and the strength of that influence differ considerably from one region to another. Where women's status is low, this research proves unequivocally that policies to eradicate gender discrimination not only benefit women but also their children.

Author : Renuka Ray
Publisher : Calcutta : Firma KLM
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Sex role
ISBN : UVA:X001541504

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Role and Status of Women in Indian Society by Renuka Ray Pdf

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Author : Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015016145099

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Toward a Model of Women's Status by Frances E. Mascia-Lees Pdf

Many difficulties have been encountered by researchers attempting to assess women's status in contemporary societies. One major obstacle has to do with the problems encountered in developing indices of status that can be used as objective measures of women's position. Due to such obstacles, many, if not most, studies of women's status have concentrated on qualitative analyses of single cultures or culture areas, making comparisons across societies unsystematic and, therefore, of limited applicability. Yet it is just such systematic studies that are required if the conditions per- petuating women's status around the world are to be identified and changed. This work presents a first attempt to develop measures of woemen's status, using existing statistics, that are applicable across nations and make possible comparisons in time and space. This vilume reviews the literature on the determinants of women's status in con- temporary societies, analyzes the range of variation in women's position in the public sector, provides quantitative measures of women's status in the political, economic, edicational, and family spheres, and identifies factors important in explaining and predicting women's position on a world wide scale.

Author : Mona Samadi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004446953

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Advancing the Legal Status of Women in Islamic Law by Mona Samadi Pdf

Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic tradition, with particular focus on guardianship, and describes the opportunities and challenges for advancing the legal status of women.