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Meena, M. S.; Jain, Dilip; Meena, H. R. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008
Self-help groups (SHGs) have emerged as an effective mechanism of empowerment and development of women as well as being on efficient mode of promoting group action and technology dissemination. Initiatives were undertaken at the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana to facilitate the formation of women's…
Descriptors: Females, Self Help Programs, Technology Transfer, Rural Areas
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Walingo, Mary Khakoni – International Review of Education, 2006
Agricultural development projects have been promoted in many places as a feature of poverty-reduction strategies. Such projects have often been implemented without a strong in-built education component, and hence have had little success. Agricultural projects seek to improve food security by diversifying a household's resource base and…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Poverty, Foreign Countries, Surveys
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Macy, Rebecca J.; Nurius, Paula S.; Norris, Jeanette – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
Little guidance exists about how to tailor empowerment and resistance sexual assault programming to be responsive to varying groups of women. Using an investigation of 415 college women who completed a self-administered survey about a range of sexually aggressive experiences by a known male assailant, this investigation tested for distinct…
Descriptors: Profiles, Investigations, Females, Sexual Abuse
Chiang, Linda H. – 2002
East Asia is the region which has experienced unprecedented growth in the past few decades. This growth resulted in the increase in education opportunities and the empowerment of women. Modernization and globalization provided opportunities for many women in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan. Modern Asian women can obtain…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Opportunities, Empowerment, Females
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Chronister, Krista M.; McWhirter, Ellen Hawley – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2003
Scope and consequences of domestic violence are reviewed, highlighting effects on women's career and educational well being. Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) is described and applied to experiences of women living in domestic violence situations. A framework for empowering battered women and using SCCT to promote their career development and…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Career Development, Educational Needs, Empowerment
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Blankenship, Jane; Robson, Deborah C. – Communication Quarterly, 1995
Identifies five characteristics of the "feminine style" in political discourse: basing political judgments on concrete, lived experience; valuing inclusivity and the relational nature of being; conceptualizing the power of public office as a capacity to "get things done" and to empower others; approaching policy formation…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Empowerment
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Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Samanta, Gopa – Community Development Journal, 2002
Discussions with women in rural areas of India analyzed government-initiated development programs regarding availability of information, suitability to women's needs, and perception of problems. Most programs were top down with little input form women; self-help approaches problematized the "self" and did not consider the realities of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Empowerment, Federal Programs, Females
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Ugbomeh, George M. M. – Community Development Journal, 2001
Discusses the concepts of agricultural education, women empowerment, and sustainable rural development. Suggests that, because women make up more than half of Nigeria's population, their empowerment would assist the efforts for sustainable rural development. (Contains 48 references.) (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Agricultural Education, Educational Change, Empowerment
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Das, Saswati; Mukherjee, Diganta – Social Indicators Research, 2007
This paper uses household level data from National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) of India, the 55th round (1999-2000), to show that for urban male children there exists significant wage incentive for schooling, though school dropout rate and child labour incidence are not so small. The parents' level of education plays an important role in…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Females, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Otieno, Tabitha N. – 2001
Whereas women carry the primary responsibility for food production in Africa, development agencies have devoted minimal resources to researching the impact of their policies and new techniques on the well-being of Africa's women farmers. C. K. Eicher (1995) and M. Smale (1995) call this the invisible factor because the gender-related constraints…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Empowerment
Bartholomew, Cheryl; Costello, Jeanne – 1997
Worldwide restricted roles based on gender and imposed by culture diminish girls' self-esteem, undermine their ambition, and limit their potential. Girls and young women move towards adulthood in social systems that negatively affect them educationally, psychologically, and physically. This paper describes "Horizons: 2000," a unique developmental…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cultural Influences, Empowerment, Females
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Jenefsky, Cindy – Communication Education, 1996
Uses critical pedagogy to provide theoretical inspiration for generating ideas about teaching communication courses. Presents a framework for a public speaking course premised on a recognition of teachers and students as holistically situated, multidimensional subjects who bring different experiences to the classroom. Discusses social hierarchies…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Females, Higher Education, Public Speaking
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Madden, Margaret E.; Sokol, Thomas J. – Initiatives, 1994
Critiques self-defense courses. Many of these courses ignore the fact that most violence against women occurs at home. Questions whether self-defense courses are genuinely empowering for women. States that programs may make individuals safer, but they do not reduce endemic violence in our communities. (CC)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Crime, Empowerment, Females
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Adult Education Quarterly, 1993
Although adult education is committed to democratic values, its knowledge base reproduces the structures and values of larger academic culture, which excludes many. Although the field speaks of empowerment for others, it has yet to realize such empowerment for itself. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Democracy, Empowerment, Females
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Luft, Toupey M.; Cairns, Kathleen V. – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1999
Study outlines processes involved in adolescent girls' responding to sexual harassment. Grounded theory methodology is used to create a theory of these processes. "Learning about the self" was the core category elicited from interviews. Processes represent girls' movement from seeing themselves as "objects" of others'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, Empowerment, Females
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