Refine your search
Categories
Availability
Magazine Year
Auteursrechten status
Refine your search
- Results per page : 10
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- This week in Palestine
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 95
- Creator
- El-Yassir, Alia
- Creator
- Jaouny, Samah
- Creator
- Abu Eid, Xavier
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Thesaurus
- emancipatie, vrouwenbewegingen, internationale vrouwendag, moslima's, empowerment, gender, vrouwenorganisaties, milieu, onderwijs, politieke participatie, economische zelfstandigheid, verloskundigen, feminisme, nationalisme, islam, Palestina
- Description
- Because of international womens day on March 8th, this issue is dedicated to Palestinian women and their role in society. The Palestinian woman has always worked alongside her male partner, especially in rural settings, also in times of war and peace. The new Hamas dominated Council also has its share of women deputies. In this issue attention for Palestinian community-based women's empowerment programme Sabaya. Sabaya is a programme that focuses on protecting rural women from insecurity and using empowerment as a tool for increasing independence of these women. Khalil Nakhleh reports of the course she offered in the Master's programme in 'Gender, Law, and Development,' at the Institute of Women Studies at Birzeit University. Rima Tarazi writes about the General Union of Palestinian Women. The Women's Affairs Centre (WAC) is an organization mainly concerned with improving the role of women in Palestinian society, particularly in the Gaza Strip. The WAC operates to challenge the relatively-wide understanding in society, for lack of being informed otherwise, that the way women are sometimes treated is normal and fine. Women make a major contribution to the well-being and sustainable development of their communities and nations, and to the maintenance of the earth's ecosystems, biodiversity and natural resources. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) concentrated on bridging gender gaps in education in absolute figures. Without a strong commitment to gender equality, drop out rates will increase because of early marriage. Women's political participation will decrease and their economic participation will remain limited. The most serious challenge during the last 10 years has been the inner transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from a grassroots struggle to an elite phenomenon. Presently midwives constitute 3.4% of the health providers in Palestine. There are 16,935 health providers in the health sector, of whom only 574 are midwives. The core of protecting women's rights and achievements in Palestine lies in the necessity of involving women in the democratic process. While Hamas's gender ideology rests on religious idioms, it is nonetheless possible to demonstrate that it is in continuous flux. This is due to ordinary socioeconomic factors and as a reaction to the challenge presented by the discourse with feminist nationalist and secular women, as well as Islamist women’s activism within the movement.
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Elsevier
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 37
- Creator
- List, Gerry van der
- Creator
- Nourhussen, Seada
- Thesaurus
- moslima's, islam, emancipatie, feminisme, onderwijs, participatie, hoofddoeken, racisme, Nederland
- Description
- De ontwikkeling van moslima's in Nederland is een even fascinerend als potentieel ingrijpend maatschappelijk proces. Gekeken wordt hoe die ontwikkeling vorm krijgt en hoe de Nederlandse samenleving aan de emancipatie een positieve bijdrage kan leveren.
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Nana-Fabu, Stella
- Description
- The Cameroon woman has for long been the economic backbone of the nation, yet she remains largely marginalized in society generally and in the economic sector in particular. The cumulative effects of the interplay of gender discrimination of traditional African and Western colonial as well as neo– colonial systems on the general status of the Cameroon woman has been enormous. As this paper reveals, in modern times, more Cameroon women have become more dependent on men economically than in pre-colonial or traditional times. It is true that modernization has wrought some good for Cameroon women, but this article shows that the ills of modernization far outweigh the good wrought by modernization in Cameroon. The end result is that in modern Cameroon women occupy economically precarious positions at the lower echelons of the socio-economic scale. Women's limited access to and lack of control over resources such as education and bank loans that are more readily available to Cameroon men has led to the further decline of women's economic status in modern Cameroon. The vast majority of Cameroon women, regardless of educational level, find themselves in a disadvantaged position in the economic sphere. The overwhelming historical evidence presented in this paper is testimony to the above fact. In turn this pattern has had grave consequences for the country's overall development.
Showing 1-3 of 3 records.