Gender Equity and Empowerment in Nigeria: Implications for Educational Management

Gender equity and women's empowerment.

This article focuses on the improvements in women's status in China. The trend started as early as in the 1950s, when the Chinese Constitution declared that women should enjoy equal rights with men in political, economic, cultural, social and family life, and the legitimate rights of women and children are protected by law. This principle is also reflected in other laws and regulations such a...

Gender and empowerment: definitions, approaches and implications for policy

Empowerment evaluation of a Swedish gender equity plan

BACKGROUND Empowerment is essential for gender equity and health. The city of Malmö, Sweden, has formulated a development plan for gender equity integration (GEIDP). A 'Policy Empowerment Index' (PEI) was previously developed to assess the empowerment potential of policies. OBJECTIVES To pilot-evaluate the GEIDP's potential for empowerment and to test the PEI for future policy evaluations. ...

Urban Sprawl Pattern and Its Implications for Urban Management (Case Study: Zaria Urban Area, Nigeria)

Urban sprawl, or the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading out of built-up areas in Zaria urban area causes problems of congestion, poor urban basic infrastructure delivery and poor urban planning. This paper analyzed the pattern and implications of urban sprawl using GIS and Remote sensing as an improved approach to analyze and explain sprawling beyond the traditional spatial or cartographic ma...

The Challenges of Measuring School Quality: Implications for Educational Equity