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1. 1. Determinants of Intimate Partner SexualViolence against Women in India

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för hälsovetenskap

   Author : Madeleine Back; [2020]
   Keywords : gender-based violence; rural; socio-demographics; public health; sexual violence against women; urban;

   Abstract : Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a public health problem andprimarily affects women. Almost 30% of all women who have been in arelationship with a man, have experienced physical or sexual violence by theirpartner in their life. READ MORE

3. 2. The power of parents´aspiration - A project evaluation in rural India

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Alexandra Sundberg; [2015-02-06]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The objective of this thesis is whether women accessing education and credit affect her and her husband’s aspiration concerning their child’s future age of marriage, preferred occupation and educational attainment. By measuring the effect of a Self Help Group (SHG) project in Tamil Nadu, India, it is shown that microfinance+ does affect fathers’ aspiration for their children’s future age of marriage. READ MORE

4. 3. Thousands of plant breeders: women conserving in situ crop genetic resources : a case study in the Medak District of Telangana, Southern India

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

   Author : Christopher Bradburn; [2014]
   Keywords : landrace; seeds; conservation; in situ; traditional; genetic resources; plant breeding; peasants; women; systems thinking; climate change;

   Abstract : This study focuses on in situ conservation of landrace crop varieties in the Medak district of the southern Indian state, Telangana. The objective of this work was to investigate two main questions: 1) Under what unique conditions are smallholder peasant farmers willing and able to continuously grow local, landrace crops? 2) What characterises the women farmers who grow local landrace crops in this district of landrace crop origins? A Systems Thinking methodology was used to develop and analyse the data. READ MORE

5. 4. preliminary study of a Water, Hygiene and Ecological Sanitation project in a rural village in Bihar state of India.

   University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

   Author : Abhilash Salimath; [2014]
   Keywords : Sanitation; Open Defecation; CompostEra; MHM; Ecosan; PAR;

   Abstract : There are 2.6 billion people who have no access to "improved sanitation" all over the world, of which 814 million people live in India. As a result of this, people resort to open defecation and this causes serious damage to the people‟s health and also pollutes the surrounding environment. READ MORE

6. 5. Determinants of Women's Empowerment in Rural India: An Intra-Household Study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Julia Wiklander; [2010]
   Keywords : Probit Model; Household determinants; Social norms; Gender-related constraints; Women s empowerment; Tamil Nadu; Uttar Pradesh; India; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : 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