lebanon has been considered a sample of europe in the middle east, and it is surprising to have an islamic resistance against israel in this small modern country. the islamic resistance was, at the beginning, portrayed as having a very different ideology from that of the neighboring countries of the middle east. this resistance was established on the basis of being a resistance model for the fr...

the present study is investigating the role and situation of women in parthian period. the role of women in parthian era based on archaeological evidences and historical literatures is unknown. the literature had a brief look to this and even leading to the misunderstanding. such literatures concerning generally to the women and their personal attributes in the court like political marriages. i...

this research was administered with the purpose of studying the moderating role of female gender schemas in relations between feminine role models, job ladder and networking opportunity with procedural justice in promotion of women teachers in yazd, kerman and esfahan city. on the basis of the research aims, 280 women teachers were selected from above mentioned cities (from esfahan 100 women te...

Patriarchy, it seems today, has always been an integral part of the Indian society. A slight glance at the status of women in India today makes one think that women have always been considered inferior to men. History, however, says otherwise; women in India have historically had a greater role to play and have commanded far greater respect than they do today. It will therefore be justified to ...

BACKGROUND Health related quality of life (HRQOL) can be measured by a wide range of instruments, many of which have been designed for specific conditions or uses. "Preference-based" measures assess the value individuals place on health, and are included in economic evaluations of treatments and interventions (such as cost effectiveness analysis). As economic evaluation becomes more common, it ...

This study examines the roles of physical and emotional abuse and resource utilization, relationship efficacy, and childhood abuse on relationship status (together or separated) in a sample of 69 low-income, nonsheltered battered women. Separate path models were conducted for physical and psychological abuse. Increased physical abuse was related to separated status, increased resource utilizati...

The aim of this paper is to explore the status of women‘s empowerment through reserved seats at the lower level of decentralized body, especially Union Parishad (here after UP) in Bangladesh. The paper also tries to find out major challenges towards women empowerment in UP. At the same time, there will be an attempt to provide some suggestions to overcome those challenges. The study is based on...

AIM To test alternatives to the current research and clinical practice of assuming that married or partnered status is a proxy for positive social support. BACKGROUND Having a partner is assumed to relate to better health status via the intermediary process of social support. However, women's health research indicates that having a partner is not always associated with positive social support...