Advances in women's empowerment : critical insight from Asia, Africa and Latin America /: critical insight from Asia, Africa and Latin America. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Araceli Ortega Díaz, Marta Bárbara Ochman.
• Editors: Ortega Díaz, Araceli; Ochman, Marta
• Contents: Introduction to Advances in Women's Empowerment; Marta Bárbara Ochman and Araceli Ortega DíazChapter 1. Recent evidence on the evolution of women's empowerment across dimensions and countries. A multidimensional index of women's empowerment across countries; Eva Medina Moral and Ainhoa Herrarte Sánchez. Chapter 2. Empowerment and Desired Fertility in Sub Saharan Africa; Anne-Sophie Robilliard Chapter 3. Gender Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in Brazil; Gabriela Freitas da Cruz, and Valeria Pero Chapter 4. Urban Female Labor Force Participation and its Correlates: A Comparative Study of Slum-Dwellers and Their Urban Counterparts of Three Metro Cities in India; Sugata Bag Chapter 5. Marital status and Poverty with Gender Bias; Araceli Ortega Díaz Chapter 6. The Geography of Female Homicides and the Role of Civil Organizations in Mexico; Miguel Flores Segovia, and Francisco Gasca Sánchez. Chapter 7. Women's empowerment and grassroots organizations: an argument for bounded empowerment; Marta Bárbara Ochman Chapter 8. There Has Been No Silent Revolution: A decade of empowerment for women in rural Tamil Nadu; Isabelle Guérin, Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Elena Reboul, and G. Venkatasubramanian.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.42091724; Women in development; Women's rights -- Developing countries; Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781839824746; 9781839824722
• Related ISBNs: 9781839824739
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