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Topics Empowerment Empowerment of Women Indicators of Women's Empowerment Empowerment The most conspicuous feature of the term empowerment is that it contains the word power. To sidestep philosophical debate, it may be broadly defined as control over material assets, intellectual resources and ideology. The process of challenging existing power relations, and of gaining greater control over the sources of power, may be termed as empowerment . « go to index Empowerment of Women Empowerment of women, means many things to Kamala Bhasin. It means recognizing women's contribution, women's knowledge. It means helping women fight their own fears, and feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. It means women enhancing their self-respect and self-dignity. It means women controlling their own bodies. It means women becoming economically independent and self-reliant. It means women controlling resources like land and property. It means reducing wo...

Feminization of Poverty The feminization of poverty means the trend towards more and more of the burden of poverty being Bourne by women. Causes of the FOP Women are paid less. That accumulates throughout a lifetime. Occupational segregation - jobs that women are socialized to go for, often pay less. DIVORCE Women usually (90%) take care of the children -- child support costs $ Decreasing amounts/awards of child support Only about 50% of fathers pay court-ordered child-support Amount that fathers pay (old stat: $229 per family) is not enough to pay for day care, usually less than car payment After divorce, men's income tends to go up and women's down Women tend to outlive their husbands and money can run out. Demographic changes mean that increasing number of women-maintained families where there are no men bringing in money. Changes in the economy (reduction of wages for working people) mean that most families need two incomes to survive. M...

Globalization Globalization refers to increasing global connectivity, integration and interdependence in the economic, social, technological, cultural, political, and ecological spheres. Effects of Globalization Globalization has various aspects which affect the world in several different ways such as: Industrial - emergence of worldwide production markets and broader access to a range of foreign products for consumers and companies, particularly movement of material and goods between and within national boundaries. Financial - emergence of worldwide financial markets and better access to external financing for borrowers. As these worldwide structures grew more quickly than any transnational regulatory regime, the instability of the global financial infrastructure dramatically increased, as evidenced by the financial crises of late 2008. Economic - realization of a global common market, based on the freedom of exchange of goods and capital. The interconnectedness of...

Topics Corruption Corruption in Education sector Corruption in Health sector Corruption in Land administration Corruption in Police department Corruption in Lower Judiciary Corruption in the Banks Corruption in Taxation Corruption Service for electric supply Corruption in Local Government Corruption in Pension Cost of Corruption Recommendations Methodology: Sample size: 3000 households (70% rural, 30% urban) Sampling technique: Multi-stage random sampling Area: 55 districts Period of data collection: 10 July to 24 August, 2010 Interviewers: 30 Data processing: Notepad Data analysis: by Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Key Socio-economic characteristics of the respondents: Sex ratio: 67.3% Male, 32.7% Female Monthly average income: 2560 Taka Professional distribution: farmers, labour, business men, service holder and housewives Religion: 87.7% Muslim, 11.2% Hindu and 1.1% Christian and Buddhist ...

Topics Abuse Several types of Abuse Human rights Abuse Abuse Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing to the abuser, or to someone else. Abuse can be something as simple as damaging a piece of equipment through using it in the wrong way, or as serious as severe maltreatment of a person. Abuse may be direct and overt, or may be disguised and covert. Go to Topics Several types of Abuse Sexual abuse: The improper use of another person for sexual purposes, generally without their consent or under physical or psychological pressure. It is often inflicted on children. Physical abuse: Where one person inflicts physical violence or pain on another. Emotional or psychological abuse: Where one person uses emotional or psychological manipulation to compel another to do something they do not want, or is not in their best interests, or when one person manipulates another's emotional or psychological state fo...

The role of Non-Government Organizations' (NGOs) in socio-economic development : A study case of Bangladesh Time & Date : 12:45; 06.08.2010 Area : Komolgonj – Kamargaw Interviewee : Md. Nurul Amin Muhit Interviewer : M.A.Muhit (pen-name) Religion : Islam Nationality : Bangladeshi Family type : Joint family / combined family Family Dominator : Male dominated Mr. Muhit (pen-name) is a Businessman and he lives a thickly populated village named Kamargaw which is situated at Komolganj in Moulovi-Bazar district. There are 11 members in his family in which 4 male members and 7 female members. His educational merit is H.S.C. He is the only earning member in his family and he gets TK 19,000 per month from his business. As his family is a joint family so that it is not enough money to maintain his family. So he is taking loan from a NGO named Grameen since the year of 2008. He takes TK 5000 – 10000 every month as a loan and pays it in weekly installment. After taking...

    The feminization of poverty means the trend towards more and more of the burden of poverty being bourne by women. Causes of the FOP : Women are paid less. Occupational segregation - jobs that women are socialized to go for, often pay less. Divorce tend. Woment tend to outlive their husbrands and money can run out. Demographic changes mean that increasing number of women - maintained families where there are no men bringing in money. Welfare no longer exists. Steucture of the workforce women tend to go into lower paying professions. Place where women can get jobs often are partime, halftime, second, no banefits. Many womens job dont have medical banefits. Government tends to find the olderly instead of children and mothers.