Ministry of Science and Technology Development ABSTRACT Despite the great strides in women empowerment and emancipation there is still a gap of women in leadership positions in the science‚ engineering and technology and mathematics (STEM). Data in Zimbabwe‚ obtained from the Draft Status of the Science‚ Technology and Innovation in Zimbabwe document show that there is a higher enrolment of men than women and that female staff ranged from between 0%-36% in tertiary institutions with no statistics
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Subjugated Introduction For decades women have been portrayed as housewives‚ dependent on men and sex objects in advertisements. The topic of the portrayal of women in advertising is significant in the social realm. The dominance of advertising in our lives and its ability to persuade and shape our beliefs give it power over our society and the influence of our basic thoughts. Everywhere we turn‚ advertising is telling people‚ women especially‚ what it means to be desirable. Many of these messages
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Women in Society Brandi Coles HIS 204 American History Since 1865 Professor Angela Cranon-Charles August 5‚ 2012 The role of women has changed drastically throughout history. Women were once thought to only be able to stay at home and tend the house and family. Women were isolated in their domestic sphere; however they did not stay there. Women faced many struggles during their battle to end their isolation from the idea of gender roles within the workforce to the belief that women are
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Abstract Through an analysis of recent reforms in three policy areas in Chile—pensions‚ childcare services‚ and maternity/parental leave—the paper seeks to explore how equity-oriented reforms deal with the triple legacy of maternalism‚ male-breadwinner bias‚ and market reform. Recent studies of “new” social policies in Latin America have underlined the persistent strength of maternalist assumptions. Feminist research on new cash transfer programs‚ in particular‚ has tended to see more continuity
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left their housewives stranded. According to stereotype‚ these women should have floundered and failed on their own. Flounder they did‚ yet fail they did not. What began as a necessary adaptation‚ matured into an exploration of opportunity and‚
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Women in Pakistan were initially thought to play the traditional role of being housewives. However with changing times‚ the Pakistani society has also evolved. Women have a much significant role to play in the society rather than serving their husbands at home. During this time of economic crisis when men are suffering from unemployment and lower wages‚ households require all members of the family to work and add to the family income. So the wives have to go out and work so that they could earn
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Men and Women‚ Now and Then… Despite the obvious physical differences between men and women‚ education‚ choice of profession‚ and roles at home‚ which have been changing from the beginning of the human kind; it should not be said that men are superior to women. The roles of men and women have changed in the past centuries and are different nowadays. Thirty years ago the roles of women were very different to that of today. At that time‚ women were responsible to attend exclusively home and family
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report is an attempt to analyze the role played by Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs (COWE) - a NGO which helps the women to face and tackle various problems and the factors which prevent growth and development of women to start their business .This project also throws light on the role of this organization in promoting women entrepreneurship in Hyderabad. Women empowerment has been increasing so rapidly all over the world and women are starting their own business to seek greater control over their
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Introduction Women in management: a Malaysian perspective Cross-cultural work on attitudes towards women managers has been scant. However‚ studies of sex-role socialization and sexstereotyping have demonstrated the worldwide existence of negative attitudes towards women in non-traditional roles (Ariffin‚ 1995; Guy‚ 1992). Multinational ethnographic research has reported the universal existence of certain roles and behaviours for women and men. Surveys of women in management positions
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 MEANING The classic definition of an Entrepreneur is “a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking‚ assuming the risk for the sake of the profit.” The word ’entrepreneur’ is derived from the Old French word ’entreprendre’ which was first used by the economic ’theorist’ Richard Cantillon in 1755 in an essay where he used this term to describe a person who assumed the risk of buying goods in the belief that they could sell them at a higher price at a
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