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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the different ...

  3. Sara Hlupekile Longwe - Wikipedia

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    Longwe developed the Women's Empowerment Framework, or Longwe Framework, published in 1990. [5] This Gender analysis framework helps planners understand the practical meaning of women's empowerment and equality, and then to evaluate whether a development initiative supports this empowerment. [6] The basic premise is that women's development can be viewed in terms of five levels of equality ...

  4. Female education - Wikipedia

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    Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education ( primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. [1] [2] It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education. The education of women and girls is important ...

  5. Women in the workforce - Wikipedia

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    Women find themselves experiencing the concept of "doing gender", especially in a traditional masculine occupation. Women's standpoint of men's behavior sheds light on mobilizing masculinity. With the feminist standpoint view of gender in the workplace, men's gender is an advantage, whereas women's is a handicap.

  6. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Wikipedia

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    Her women characters repeatedly assertively resist being defined by stereotypes and embody a quest for women's empowerment. Adichie's works often deal with inter-generational explorations of family units which allow her to examine differing experiences of oppression and liberation.

  7. Welfare schemes for women in India - Wikipedia

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    The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) is an initiative launched on 1 April 2011 to offer benefits to adolescent girls in the age group of 10 to 19. It was offered initially as a pilot programme in 200 districts and offers a variety of services to help young women including nutritional supplementation and education ...

  8. Multicultural education - Wikipedia

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    Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups. It draws on insights from multiple fields, including ethnic studies and women studies, and reinterprets content from related academic disciplines. [1]

  9. Women in the Arab world - Wikipedia

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    Significant progress has been made in advancing women's rights in many Arab countries. Women have increasingly gained access to education and employment opportunities, and there has been a growing recognition of the importance of women's empowerment for social and economic development.