Essays about: "Gender-related constraints"
Found 4 essays containing the words Gender-related constraints.
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1. Gender, migration, and work: Portuguese women in Luxembourg
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : Female migrants have long been neglected in migration studies and this paper therefore reconditions the intra-European migration of young women between the 1980s and 1990s by using the case study of Portuguese women in Luxembourg. While today’s discussion around the feminization of migration increasingly considers gender as a hidden cause of migration, earlier studies on female migration neglect this aspect. READ MORE
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2. Space-Time Autonomy by Proximity - A Qualitative Study of Girls´ Accessibility by Proximity in Gothenburg
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälleAbstract : The urban city is a melting pot of different people, groups of people, experiences, desires, and strivings organized within a shared space and connected through a variety of networks. In this shared urban space, it is important to create equal accessibility to places, services, and activities essential for people's everyday life. READ MORE
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3. The Gender-Influence Perspective in Educational Management and Leadership : A Comparative Study of Upper Secondary Women Principals in Thessaloniki, Greece and Stockholm, Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktikAbstract : Gender plays an important role in all facets of human life and although great strides have been made against the gender discrimination, still the progress is gradual and slow. More specifically, in the field of educational management and leadership women’s attempt to gain equal groundwork with men is quite evident but the former still face gender related barriers that hamper their progress. READ MORE
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4. Determinants of Women's Empowerment in Rural India: An Intra-Household Study
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Using household level data from the Survey on the Status of Women and Fertility provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Population Studies Centre of University of Pennsylvania, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment and the presence of gender-related constraints within the household in rural India. Households from two states of different demographic development, Uttar Pradesh in the North and Tamil Nadu in the South are included in the data. READ MORE