Suchergebnisse

The poem developed from collective stories of women who have shared their experiences, challenges, and actions of being scholars, professors, graduate students, business owners, and/or parents, among a multitude of other roles that often inconvenienced those who had particular views of what women are supposed to be and do.

Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part II: Climate Change and Gender -- Chapter 2: Climate Change, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment -- Chapter 3: Weather Shocks and Women empowerment -- Chapter 4: Gender and Climate Change: Towards Comprehensive Policy Options -- Part III: Women's Land Rights and Agricultural Productivity in East Africa -- Chapter 5: Women's Land Rights and Agricultural Productivity in Uganda -- Chapter 6: Land Tenure, Gender, and Productivity in Ethiopia and Tanzania -- Part IV: Maternal Health and Education -- Chapter 7: Towards Achieving Equity in Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries: Progress and Remaining Challenges in Priority Countries -- Chapter 8: Barriers to and Facilitators of Contraceptive Use among Married Adolescent Girls in six Sub-Saharan African Countries -- Chapter 9: Achieving Gender Equality in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Challenges in Moving from the MDGs to the SDGs -- Chapter 10: Gender Disparities in Access to and Use of ICT in Senegal -- Part V: Labor Market Participation and Unpaid Care Work -- Chapter 11: Gender Gaps in Employment and Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review -- Chapter 12: Child Health and Relatives' Employment in South Africa: The Gendered Effect beyond Parents -- Chapter 13: Unpaid Care Work Inequality and Women's Employment Outcomes in Senegal -- Chapter 14: When Women go to the City: African Women's Rural-Urban Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals -- Part VI: Women's Bargaining Power and their Households' Well-being -- Chapter 15: Women's Empowerment and Child Obesity: Evidence in Comoros, Malawi, and Mozambique -- Chapter 16: Women, Inclusive Finance and the Quality of Life: Evidence from Zambia -- Chapter 17: Women's Bargaining Power and Households Living Standards in West Africa: Evidence from Benin, Togo and Mali -- Part VII: Women in Politics and Society.-Chapter 18: Female Policy Makers and Women's Wellbeing in Africa -- Chapter 19: Pathways to Political Empowerment: An Examination of Factors that Enable Women to Access Political Leadership Positions in Kenya -- Chapter 20: It is all about Power: Corruption, Patriarchy and the Political Participation of Women.-Chapter 21: Facts, Narrative and Action on Gender Equality in Modern Africa: A Sociological Approach to Priorities And Omissions -- Part VIII: Conclusion -- Chapter 22: Conclusion

List of contributors -- List of interviewees -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: women's leadership in emerging markets / Kathryn Kolbert and Prof Nick Binedell -- Overview and orientation to the book / Shireen Chengadu and Caren Scheepers -- Macro-level perspective on women leadership / Shireen Chengadu and Pravina Makan-Lakha -- Women leadership in context : caren scheepers -- Women movements in emerging markets / Caren Scheepers, Sonja Swart; Kelly Alexander and Hema Parbhoo -- Women leaders in education / Sunny Stout-Rostron -- Institutional level interventions on women leadership / Desray Clark and Verity Hawarden -- Workplace barriers faced by women leaders in emerging markets / Ashleigh Shelby Rosette and Jasmien Khattab -- Women leadership in entrepreneurial contexts / Yogavelli Nambiar and Renuka Methil -- Women in professional services / Cecily Carmona -- Women leadership in corporate enterprises / Maxine Jaffit and Kelly Alexander -- Women on boards / Shirley Zinn, Mpho Nkeli, Cecily Carmona and Hema Parbhoo -- Conclusion / Caren Scheepers; Shireen Chengadu and Kerry-Lee Durant -- Index.

The number of Chinese women writers has increased considerably in the past few years. Some write poetry, essays, children's stories, reportage and television scripts. But since the majority write fiction, and they are the most influential, I will talk today about some middle-aged and younger women who have introduced new themes or written controversial work in recent years.