Social Marketing and Women Empowerment: Impact of Social Welfare Programs on Women Empowerment and Economic Wellbeing

Economic Empowerment of Women

Women Empowerment and Economic Development

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...

Comparison of Social, Economic and Familial Empowerment in Married Women in Three Cities of Iran

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment was defined as their ability to achieve awareness and control their personal, social, economic and political forces aiming at taking measures in order to improve their lives. This study aimed to compare the empowerment of the married women in medical sciences university in social, economic and familial domains in three cities, IRAN. METHODS This was a descriptiv...

identify and explaining the social and economic factors affecting rural women empowerment (case study: rostam county)

1. introduction the significance of rural women’s proportion in human work force is not only in indoor affairs, but also in productive outdoor activities. regarding the fact that women are both involved in indoor and outdoor activities, it is worthy to exactly determine their proportion in economic and social activities. on the other hand, since rural women of different parts of iran are involv...

Pnm-8: The Effect of Pregnant Women Empowerment Program on Elements of Empowerment and Their Satisfaction

Background: To determine the effectiveness of pregnant women empowerment program on elements of empowerment and their satisfaction of prenatal cares. Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted at a prenatal clinic. The total number of samples were 70; that pregnant women were randomly assigned to either control (n=35) or experimental group (n=35). Women in the experiment...