Empowering minority women: Autonomy versus participation

Empowering Minority Women : Autonomy versus Participation

Feminist attempts to empower women within their own cultural traditions have employed two broad strategies: authentic choice and participation. This paper argues that the methodological problems that beset the authentic choice strategy tell in favour of the participation approach. However, proponents of the participation strategy have failed to pay sufficient attention to the background conditi...

Empowering Women and Girls.indd

health risks, especially HIV/AIDS. Although many organiza ons have programs that address gender, our mul -sectorial approach combining elements of development economics, public health, and other social sciences is unique. In addi on, our commitment to rigorous evalua ons ensures that the policies and global learning derived from our work are evidencebased. Our opera ng principle is to design pr...

Empowering women facilitates conservation

The present scenario of global change caused by unprecedented habitat loss, species declines, climate warming, and pollution with culminating in an environmental crisis that needs to be addressed with innovative and radical solutions. At least some failures of conservation can be attributed to poor involvement of women. To improve the role of women in conservation, we need to better understand ...

Minority Representation, Empowerment, and Participation

According to the minority empowerment thesis, minority representation strengthens representational links, fosters more positive attitudes toward government, and encourages political participation. We examine this theory from a cross-national perspective, making use of surveys that sampled minorities in the United States and New Zealand. Both countries incorporate structures into their electoral...

Minority Participation in Outdoor Recreation