Exploring the Perceptions of Wits Academic Women About Women Empowerment and …

Issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality have been of paramount importance, particularly in the two decades since the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At that conferenc…

Rape and Women’s Sexual Health in Nigeria: The Stark Realities of Being Fem…

Historically, women have always been subjugated and oppressed by men in most cultures in Nigeria. This situation is due to the inequality in gender relations between men and women. Rape has alway…

DIY Online Security Guide for Every Woman

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Review: Yaliwe Clarke, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town

Given an increasing focus on post armed conflict reconstruction processes on the continent, as well as increased international attention on the prosecution of war crimes and security sector reform …

Violence victimisation and aspirations–expectations disjunction among adole…

Violence victimization is a key threat to adolescents’ well-being in urban slums in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the association between violence victimization and aspiration–expectations di…

Maternal mortality and the metempsychosis of user fees in Liberia: A mixed-me…

Liberia, a country recently afflicted by civil conflict and an epidemic of Ebola virus disease, has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. A biosocial analysis of this problem…

Revealing a safer sex option to reduce HIV risk: a cluster-randomized trial i…

Background: 1.8 million new HIV infections occur every year, disproportionately affecting adolescent girls and young women. Abstinence-only risk avoidance approaches have had limited impact on redu…

Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa: National and Local Approaches…

The South African economy has been undergoing a process of fundamental economic transformation as a result of policies promoting global integration within the global economy. CAROLINE SKINNER and I…

Cost Evaluation of Reproductive and Primary Health Care Mobile Service Delive…

Background Cervical cancer screening is a critical health service that is often unavailable to women in under-resourced settings. In order to expand access to this and other reproductive and prim…

Gender Differentials in Criminal Behaviour in Nigeria

The relationship between gender and crime is intense and persistent. Both women and men commit and are victims of crime, but their perspectives, understanding, and interpretation of the crime are…