In addition, gender inequality affects society as a whole by creating an environment of intolerance and hatred. It contributes to human trafficking, domestic violence, forced labor and child marriage, among many other forms of violence and exploitation. The only way to end this injustice is by ta...
Child marriage, defined as marriage before 18years of age, is a violation of human rights and a marker of gender inequality. Growing attention to this issue on the global development agenda also reflects concerns that it may negatively impact health. We conducted a systematic review to synthesize...
Gender perspectives on women’s employment and type of job may even affect women’s job choice. For example, the findings some qualitative research by Hafeez et al. conducted on Pakistani women entrepreneurs showed that women’s choice to become entrepreneurs is at three levels: internal, ...
Auditing provides an institutionally rich setting to test the role of homophily in dyad formation. First, sociology usually focuses on relationships on equal terms, e.g., friendship or marriage. By contrast, as our interviews with experienced2 auditors confirm, auditor dyads are hierarchically structu...
Parents' death and adult well-being: gender, age, and adaptation to filial bereavement J. Marriage Fam., 77 (3) (2015), pp. 747-760 Google Scholar Leopold & Skopek, 2015 Thomas Leopold, Jan Skopek The demography of grandparenthood: an international profile Soc. Forces, 94 (2) (2015),...
Her reluctance to leave the abusive marriage, was due to her belief that her prayers would one day change her violent husband. She is also said to be concerned of what others would think of her as a Christian woman. Many believed that her abuse was a result of her husband's low self-...
unmarriageable men than the entire population of the UK. “Marriage markets” have sprung up in cities in China over the last fifteen years, where parents and grandparents go to try to find potential dates—and possible mates—for their offspring. Because of the striking lack of marriageable ...
and that city's mayor told gay marriage opponents that they and their views canget out of town. Indeed, Chicago is so forward-looking that accused criminals don't even have to wait for the jury to hand down an acquittal from overly zealous charges; for the right price, they canbook one...
Ministry of Women and Child Development, and UNICEF Handbook on the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 Government of India, New Delhi: India (2007) Google Scholar Moock and Leslie, 1986 Peter R. Moock, Joanne Leslie Childhood malnutrition and schooling in the Terai Region of Nepal J. Dev...
Likewise, gender inequality causes detrimental effects on women of reproductive age, who receive less food than their male counterparts in the same households [10]. Precisely, the overlapping ‘phase’ of being a woman, pregnant, and living in low socio-cultural, economic, and political settings ...