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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Acronyms -- Part I: At Issue -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Focus on the United States -- 3: Global Perspectives -- Part II: Primary Sources -- 4: United States Documents -- 5: International Documents -- Part III: Research Tools -- 6: How to Research the Women's Rights Movement -- 7: Facts and Figures -- 8: Key Players A to Z -- 9: Organizations and Agencies -- 10: Annotated Bibliography -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Index.

Sociologists have long recognized women's empowerment as a key factor in improving development and health in developing countries. Using new data, this study goes beyond the traditionally used indicators of empowerment by highlighting the potential role of women's rights to land, property, and loans in explaining cross-national variation in child health. Results show that land and property rights are associated with lower rates of infant and child mortality across 75 developing countries, net of women's literacy and a variety of controls. Notably, the robustness of the land and property variables is comparable to that of GDP or access to clean water/sanitation. This provides some suggestive evidence that perhaps these aspects of women's empowerment may be just as important as some of the more conventional correlates of child health. However, access to bank loans is not significantly associated with lower infant and child mortality. This is consistent with a growing body of research that questions the efficacy of microfinance and loan programs for poverty reduction, health, and other development outcomes.

Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide is both a richly detailed history of the womenÕs movement around the globe and a road map for the next stages in the ongoing fight for gender equality. ||In this landmark three-volume set, a remarkable team of contributors draws on a wealth of contemporary research to discuss pivotal events, issues, and controversies related to the global women's movement, with chapters addressing reproductive rights, sexual slavery, harassment, forced marriage, mortality in birthing, domestic violence and rape, job discrimination, pay inequities, women in leadership pos

Whether UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should continue to work in a country largely controlled by Taliban, a fundamentalist Islamic group, whose policies violate the rights of women; Afghanistan.

On the face of it, Wu Mei (not her real name) represents the modern Chinese woman who has achieved spectacular success. Just thirty-one years old, she makes around one million RMB (roughly $150,000) a year as an attorney in Beijing, a salary that likely places her in the top 1 percent income bracket in China. Slender and beautiful, she could be the perfect cover model for a magazine feature on "China's richest women." Yet, as she speaks, a darker picture emerges. Wu recently managed to obtain a divorce from her abusive husband after five years of marriage, but only by giving up her home, her life savings, and most of her belongings. "I cried every day on my drive home from work. I just wanted to escape," says Wu, her eyes welling with tears as she recalls the violence of her married life. Her situation reflects a paradox for many educated young women in the new China. For all its failings, the Mao era (1949-1976) was a time when overcoming traditional forms of male-female inequality was proclaimed as an important revolutionary goal. Now, there are signs that women's past gains are being eroded. A combination of factors in recent years -- skyrocketing home prices, a resurgence of traditional gender norms, a state media campaign pressuring educated young women to marry, and legal setbacks -- has contributed to a fall in the status and material well-being of Chinese women relative to men. Wu Mei divorced around the same time that China's Supreme People's Court issued a stark new interpretation of the country's Marriage Law, reversing a cornerstone of the Communist Revolution. The Marriage Law of 1950 granted women rights to property (among other rights) and over the years, subsequent revisions of the law strengthened the notion of common marital property. Yet the Chinese government's latest amendment of the Marriage Law in 2011 specifies that, unless legally contested, marital property essentially belongs to the person who owns the home and whose name is on the property deed. And in China today, that person is usually a man. Adapted from the source document.

Native American women / Jeffrey M. Schulze -- Women of the colonial period / Amy Meschke Porter -- Daughters of liberty : women and the American Revolution / Pia Katarina Jakobsson -- Women reformers and radicals in Antebellum America / Julie Holcomb -- School girls and college women : female education in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Andrea Hamilton -- Suffragists / Jessica O'Brien Pursell -- Clubwomen, reformers, workers, and feminists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Alison M. Parker -- Modern women in the 1920s / Susan Goodier -- Women facing the emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II : women's rights in the 1930s and 1940s / Gillian Nichols-Smith -- Homemakers and activists in the 1950s / Kathleen A. Laughlin -- Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s / Natasha Zaretsky -- Third wave feminists : the ongoing movement for women's rights / Janice Okoomian

Women"s right of inheritance is an indispensable right which assures their socioeconomic and political empowerment. Although the Shari"ah law and the constitution of Pakistan safeguard this right, its denial is pervasive in Punjab. This paper explores the possible choices for women and subsequent challenges they confront in independently exercising these choices. The chosen methodology is qualitative in nature. The ontological stance of interpretive school and epistemological stance of social constructionist school of thought have been followed. Through theoretical sampling technique, thirty women were recruited as sample from Mianwali, Rahim Yar Khan and Lahore. Data was collected through an in-depth interview guide and the results have been derived through thematic analysis. The findings of the study portray the contemporary trend among women in Punjab to surrender their right of inheritance in favor of the male agnatic heirs. Among the socio-cultural determinants influencing the choices of women, patriarchal set-up, misinterpretation of divine commands, lack of awareness, stringent legal procedures and lower educational levels are the most significant. The study recommends effective awareness about inheritance rights both through accessible legal procedures and with the promotion of female education so that females be able to make informed choices