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The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.
Greater Magadha is a theory in the studies of the ancient history of India, introduced by Johannes Bronkhorst. [1] It refers to the non-Vedic political and cultural sphere that developed in the lower Gangetic plains (modern day Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh ), east of the Vedic heartland and roughly corresponding to the region of the later ...
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Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States. With the advancements in film throughout the years feminist film theory has developed and changed to analyse the current ways of film and also go back ...
Walker grew up in a low-income housing project in New Jersey, spent portions of her young adulthood homeless, and began attending college in her 30s. [1] She received an Associate of Arts in liberal arts from Berkeley City College, after which she attended CIIS, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies, a Master of Arts in counseling psychotherapy, and a Doctor of ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw's work is central to feminist legal theory, particularly her article Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics. DeGraffenreid v. General Motors is an example of such a case.
The pre-Classical and Classical periods saw a number of cities laid out according to fixed plans, though many tended to develop organically. Designed cities were characteristic of the Minoan, Mesopotamian, Harrapan, and Egyptian civilisations of the third millennium BC (see Urban planning in ancient Egypt).
Youth empowerment examines six interdependent dimensions: psychological, community, organizational, economic, social and cultural. [1] [8] Psychological empowerment enhances individual's consciousness, belief in self-efficacy, awareness and knowledge of problems and solutions and of how individuals can address problems that harm their quality of life. [1]