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Direct linkGloria Essilfie; Joshua Sebu; Josephine Baako-Amponsah – SAGE Open, 2024
The study seeks to analyze the effect of women's empowerment on household food security in northern Ghana. Employing Random Effect and Generalized Estimating Equations on the two rounds of Feed the Future dataset, 2012 and 2015, the study measured women empowerment as the comparative years of schooling and decision making by women. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Females, Food
Download full textAlghamdi, Rahma Ali; Hegazy, Shereen Hassan – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
The current study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a vocational guidance program in improving vocational awareness toward handicrafts among female breadwinners. Also, it aimed to understand the impact of the vocational guidance program on the attitude toward life among female breadwinners as well as community service through training on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Program Effectiveness, Career Guidance
Weaver, Lesley Jo; Henderson, Nicole; Hadley, Craig – Field Methods, 2021
Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning…
Descriptors: Food, Dietetics, Hunger, Consumer Economics
Ahn, Jaehyun; Briers, Gary; Kibriya, Shahriar; Price, Edwin – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2020
Purpose: This study explores female-headed households in Grand Bassa, Lofa and Nimba counties to discern Liberia's smallholding, subsistence agriculture. Amid environmental and communal dynamics, addressing factors causing challenges of farming is imperative. Methodology: Using explanatory sequential methods this study collects, explains, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Females, Income
Taylor, Sherria D.; Stahl, Michelle; Distelberg, Brian – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2021
The role of spirituality in families is an important factor in family resilience. Currently, however, no quantitative instruments exist that adequately assess this phenomenon. This study introduced the adapted Spiritual Perspective Scale-Family Version (SPS-FV) and explored its psychometric qualities among 574 majority ethnic minority individuals…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Family Life, Low Income Groups, Ethnic Groups
Thwala, S'lungile K. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This study investigated the experiences and coping strategies of adolescent girl learners from child-headed families in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland. Forty (40) girls whose ages ranged from 13-18 years were participants in the study and were selected through purposive sampling in five selected rural schools. Data were collected on the…
Descriptors: Coping, Heads of Households, Foreign Countries, Females
Villar-Márquez, Eliana – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
In a multicultural country like Peru, specific and disaggregated data on ethnic and racial minorities are a key resource to inform public policies about neglected populations. For decades, data on Afro-Peruvians has been both limited and inaccurate. Although there are 106 Afro-Peruvian communities, the most recent national census in October 2017…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Public Policy, Blacks
Bilenkisi, Fikret; Gungor, Mahmut Sami; Tapsin, Gulcin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study aims to analyze the relationship between the education levels of household heads and the poverty risk of households in Turkey. The logistic regression models have been estimated with the poverty risk of a household as a dependent variable and a set of educational levels as explanatory variables for all households. There are subgroups of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Family Income, Poverty, Heads of Households
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2019
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2018
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Smith, Joan – American Educational History Journal, 2010
In "The Female Frontier" (1988), Glenda Riley notes that the typical historical account of life on the frontier puts men at the center of the experience. In contrast to a male frontier thesis, Riley posits that women played highly significant, though largely domestic, roles in the settling and development of the frontier, and that…
Descriptors: Females, United States History, Informal Education, Educational Experience
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2015
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
The Effect of Food Stamp Nutrition Education on the Food Insecurity of Low-Income Women Participants
Eicher-Miller, Heather A.; Mason, April C.; Abbott, Angela R.; McCabe, George P.; Boushey, Carol J. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: To determine the effect of Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) in Indiana on participants' food insecurity and food insufficiency. Design: A single-blind randomized design. A randomized experimental group completed 5 FSNE lessons as an intervention between a pre- and posttest, whereas a control group completed a pre- and posttest…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Nutrition Instruction, Low Income Groups, Females
