1. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours but yet earn only 10 percent of the world’s income. They constitute two-thirds of the world’s population but own less than 1 percent of the world’s property and make up two-thirds of the estimated 876 million adults worldwide who cannot read or write (UNDP‚ 2008). Kamara (2012) is of the opinion that rural women make up 43% of the agricultural labour force worldwide. According to the Austrian Development Cooperation
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Paper Code: MBA-072 QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH Credit = 4 Marks = 100 Objectives: (i) To equip the students with techniques of data analysis. (ii) To grasp the various optimization techniques. SECTION - A Decision making;Decision making environment;Decision making under certainty;Decision making under uncertainty;Decision making under risk;Decision Tree
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‘Micro Finance and Women Empowerment ’ By Ms. Varsha Parikh Lecturer Department of Extension and Communication Faculty of Family and Community Sciences The M.S.University of Baroda Vadodara 390002‚Gujarat‚ India E-mail : vbparikh@rediff.com Micro Finance and Women Empowerment By Ms. Varsha Parikh ABSTRACT Self-help groups intermediated by microcredit have been shown to have positive effects on women. Micro finance refers to small savings
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Theme :- ‘Buddhism Past and Present’ Sub-theme :- “Women Empowerment through Buddhism”. Author name :-AshwiniSudhakarShirsath Address :-VanitaVihar ‚AGC‚Karve Rd‚Pune-4 Mobile no.:-8983462187 Email :-asvinetu39@gmail.com Abstract ------------------------------------------------- In the present paper the following points are discussed:- ------------------------------------------------- Introduction-“If by strength is meant moral power‚ then woman is immeasurably man’s superior”. Mahatma
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business. Empowerment of women entrepreneur is an new mantra for development of economy. The present paper focuses mainly women entrepreneur ‚they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs. It is observed that women entrepreneur networks are major sources of knowledge about women’s entrepreneurship and they are increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for its development and promotion. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe‚ 70 percent are women work two-thirds
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Conclusions of research Valuable first-hand knowledge of the industry in which the products will be used was gained through talking to physiotherapists and doctors. Completed questionnaires can be found in the appendix. An NHS muscular skeletal physiotherapist‚ Mrs R Townsend‚ said that the most common area she has to rehabilitate is the knee. This is most commonly done through stretches and slowly increasing joint range through the use of a theraband. Other products are available to carry out these
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Running head: ADULT EDUCATION FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA Empowering Women in South Africa to Serve as Catalysts Using Adult Education in Reducing Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patricia D. Bailey Capella University Abstract There is a high rate of illiteracy in South Africa with over 4.5 million adults that has never attended school and approximately 5 million who are functionally illiterate. (Aitchison‚ 2004). Studies
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION *Rashmi Joshi ** Laxmi shree mishra WOMEN EMPOWERMENT is a global issue and discussion on women political right are at the fore front of many formal and informal campaigns world wide. The concept of women empowerment was introduced at the international women conference at NAROIBI in 1985. Education is milestone of women empowerment because it enables them to responds to the challenges ‚ to confront their traditional role and change their life . So that we
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International conference on women empowerment A study on various occupational challenges faced by working women. Abstract: As we all are aware of that the only “change” is one constitute which is constant. Considering this fact we can see that the belief in women’s power is increasing day by day earlier women all over the world are challenged by a number of obstacles that restrict their ability to play significant roles in their communities and the broader society. Somewhere this situation is still
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DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Introduction “When women move forward‚ the family moves‚ the village moves and the nation moves. Those‚ who will understand‚ will lay foundation of a great nation.” Indeed‚ History suggest this as well that western societies which promoted women’s rights‚ freedom‚ self-reliance and fraternity among its citizens have progressed ahead of their time leaving behind the rest of the world drowned in prejudices. In India‚ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was one of the men
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