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Sood, Suruchi; Kostizak, Kelli; Stevens, Sarah; Cronin, Carmen; Ramaiya, Astha; Paddidam, Priyanka – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Despite multiple global commitments to protect the rights of people with disabilities, discriminatory attitudes and social norms continue to disadvantage children with disabilities (CWD) in various ways. This manuscript examines the conceptualisation and measurement of discriminatory attitudes and social norms towards to CWD. A systematic review…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias, Social Discrimination, Children
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Unterhalter, Elaine – Gender and Education, 2013
In a number of countries in Africa, young women who become pregnant are excluded from school. This article presents a critique of policy and practice in this area drawing partly on Diana Leonard's scholarship concerning the relational dynamic of gender, generation, social division, and household forms. Much of the policy prescription of large…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Pregnancy, Early Parenthood
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Speizer, Ilene S. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study examines intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes and experience among women and men in Uganda to inform IPV-prevention programs in the region. Nationally representative population-based data from women aged 15 to 49 and men aged 15 to 54 were collected between May and October 2006 as part of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey.…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Spouses, Marriage, Females