Box 1: Selected Gender Indicators for Ethiopia • Gender-related Development Index (GDI): 142 out of 157 countries • Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM): 84 out of 108 countries • Maternal mortality: 673 deaths per 100,000 live births (2005) • Violence against women (including FGM): affects 73% of women and girls • Early marriage: 75% of girls marry before age 17 • Combined gross primary, secondary...

Objectification theory posits that the tendency to view oneself as an object to be looked at and evaluated by others negatively affects girls’, but not boys’, subjective well-being. Although it has been established that women self-objectify more than men, research in this area has been limited to the study of adult college women. The aim in the current longitudinal study was to investigate the ...

In the present paper, we explore impact of singing for girls in rural Bangladesh. Previous findings this field-based interview study (with 18 girls) have demonstrated that can act as a driving force young girls’ psychological individuation processes, implying increased agency and autonomy. A critical question, however, is to what extent village will manage maintain feeling they pass through pub...

Women the world over face stark disparities in health, finance, education, politics, and other arenas. Persistent gender inequality may threaten economic growth and/or social progress.1 At the most micro level, discrimination impedes girls and women from achieving their individual hopes and dreams. Through its Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations has championed an increase in equali...

Women the world over face stark disparities in health, finance, education, politics, and other arenas. Persistent gender inequality may threaten economic growth and/or social progress.1 At the most micro level, discrimination impedes girls and women from achieving their individual hopes and dreams. Through its Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations has championed an increase in equali...

During 2011-2014, on average, 7.3% of boys' and 7.2% of girls' total daily calories were obtained from SSBs compared with 6.9% for men and 6.1% for women. For men, women, and girls, the percentage of total daily kilocalories from SSBs declined as income level increased. For boys, the percentage of total daily kilocalories was lower for those in the highest income group than in the other income ...

This article contributes to the limited body of work attending girlhood in children’s nonfiction, with specific focus on collective biographies about women published since 2016. In recent years, nonfiction books have proliferated rapidly United Kingdom and beyond. proliferation has coincided an intensification academic public interest young people’s engagement feminist ideas, where female empow...

OBJECTIVE To discriminate the effect of maternal obesity and gestational diabetes on birth weight and adipose tissue of the newborn. METHODS Normal BMI women (group N, n = 243; 18.5≤ BMI<25 kg/m2) and obese women (group Ob, n = 253; BMI≥30 kg/m2) were recruited in a prospective study between 15 and 18 weeks of gestation. All women were submitted to a 75g oral glucose tolerance test in the sec...