empowering rural women is one of the third millennium goals. to this end it was proposed to allot micro credits to rural women in order to provide the required capital to launch productive careers. now after a decade from the establishment of micro credit funds in iran, only few researches have been done to give a rank to them. the present research is conducted through survey method to rank mic...

Location: occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) with ability to travel to all districts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 1. Background, purpose and use of the evaluation The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equa...

background & objectives: domestic violence(dv) is the most prevalent form of violence against women. it is associated with many socio-economic & psychological complications. this research was conducted to identify the causes and effects of violence against women & also characterization of victims. materials & methods: this cross sectional & prospective study included all referring women to law-...

the aim of this study is to investigate the role and the place of women and men in vulgar tales in the 60 selected vulgar tales exploiting parsons’ role theory and the infra- analysis method.the case tales are among which are narrated by people older than 50 years old. this paper aims, first to review the cultural elements which are verbally transferred from generation to generation, and, secon...

there are some ambiguities about the status of women in islam, andthis paper studies exemplary women in the holy koran by content analysis, referringto valid interpretations. its basic questions include: koran’s method in introducingmodels, gender roles in koran, and koran’s criteria and modeling principles aboutexemplary women. the findings demonstrate that the koran has acted very preciselyto...

This paper critically examined the women representation in Nigerian politics with particular reference to elective and ministerial positions. The objectives of this are ascertain if there has been an improvement political position, find out present position realized affirmative action identify factors undermining rise Nigeria. liberal feminist theory was adopted as framework for analysis. Data ...