Measuring Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploratory and Confirma…
Background: Women’s status and empowerment influence health, nutrition, and socioeconomic status of women and their children. Despite its benefits, however, research on women’s empowerment in…
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Gender rights in post-colonial societies: A comparative study of Kenya and India
This paper is a comparative legal study undertaken to determine the current status of gender rights in two countries: India and Kenya. The countries were selected on the basis of their similar lega…
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Obstacles for Women in Leadership Positions: The Case of South Africa
One of the findings of a 2007 survey done by the South African Commission on Gender Equality is that more than 30 percent of the respondents are of the opinion that women are too emotional to handl…
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Gender Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Evide…
This paper uses micro data from recent labour force surveys collected in Cameroon and Mali to explore gender differentials in labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this c…
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Strengthening Gender Research to Improve Girls' and Women's Education in Afri…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ratified in 1948 by the United Nations elevated education as a basic human right. All sub-Saharan countries endorsed the Declaration, as they did the Ed…
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Invoking Memories of Legendary African Women: a Reading of Rocha Chimera's Tr…
This article examines how legendary representations enable reinterpretation of the histories of women in Africa. It shows that ascribing heroic and revolutionary qualities to re-membered African wo…
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The Effect of the Sub-Saharan African Gender Divide on the Rights and Status …
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to a substantial gender divide that encompasses numerous aspects of life. Though this divide is a historic reality for Sub-Saharan Africa, the recent and current process …
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Gender, Poverty and Inequality in the Aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: …
Gender equality is re-emerging as an important global and national agenda with emphasis placed on closing the gender gap in terms of women’s representation in public and private decision-making…
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A cluster randomised controlled trial to determine the effect of community mo…
This paper describes the design and methods of a cluster randomised controlled trial (C-RCT) to determine the effectiveness of a community mobilisation intervention that is designed to reduce th…
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Hashtag Feminism, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and the Other #FemFuture
On August 12th, 2013, the hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen trended worldwide. In four short days, it was tweeted over 75,465 times (Topsy 2015). Coined by Mikki Kendall (@Karynthia) during a Twit…
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