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Gendering Interprovincial Migration in China1
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Migration is a gendered phenomenon, best understood as a series of relationships between socioeconomic factors and gender. Gender differences in migration efficiencies are investigated using the 1990 Census data in China. Results indicate that, although male migration rates are higher, female migration is more efficient in the sense that it contributes to greater population redistribution than male migration. Reflecting different economic and social roles, women are more likely to state socia...
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Women's Studies: A Model for a Specialty in Women's Health
Transformations
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Monthly Review
; FROM WOMEN'S RIGHTS TO FEMINIST POLITICS: THE DEVELOPING STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S LIBERATION IN POLAND These are times of great promise and great danger for women in Poland, For decades, the second class status of women--in public lif, on the labor market, and at home--was an unchallengeable fact of
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WIN News
; WOMEN IN ASIA: UNDERPAID, UNDERVALUED AND UNDEREMPLOYED Across South-East and East Asia, the Asian financial crisis has toppled women hack into uncertain, exploitative and poorly paid work, struggling to keep their families fed and clothed. A recent conference held to examine the evolution of the
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Women's Parties in Israel: Their Unrecognized Significance and Potential
The Middle East Journal
; Women's parties have played a significant role on the Israeli political scene since the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Moreover, women's parties had far reaching impact on both the status of women and wider society. However, the significance of women's parties has been underrated
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Women in Higher Education Since 1970: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Advancing Women in Leadership
; Senior women looking back over their careers noted the increased presence of women, changes in policies or behavior, and/or improvements in beliefs or attitudes. However, almost half also noted family problems that remain for women, and about two-thirds described biases against women that remain a
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Reports from around the world: Asia and Pacific. (women's issues)
WIN News
; MUVMAN LIBERASYON FAM (MLF) - WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT 8, Celicourt Antelme St., Forest-Side, REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS BACKGROUND AND STATISTICS: Mauritius, an Indian Ocean state of one million people, consists of the islands of Moris, Rodrig, Agalega, Tromlin, Cargados, Carajos, St. Brandon, and
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Public Personnel Management
; ... Workforce 2000 is Welcome Today at Digital, Business Ethics, July/August 1990, pp. 5-16. [2] Amy Salzman, Trouble at the Top, U.S. News and World Report, 17 June 1991. [3] Leonard Chusmir & Victoria Franks, Stress and the Woman Manager, Training and Development ...
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[ For women, the road is roughest... ]
Daily Breeze
; NOGALES, Mexico -- Swaddled in dirt in the inky night, the newborn trembled as a stranger struggled to snip her umbilical cord with nail clippers. A smuggler and other migrants had bolted when the baby's 18- year-old mother screamed with labor pains. But Lilia Ortiz couldn't just leave them in the
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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Century Long Struggle
The Muslim World
; The emergence of a women's movement in Iran goes back to the nineteenth century when Iran was experiencing some major socioeconomic changes. It was in the midst of the Constitutional Revolution that Iranian society experienced an organized attempt by women to change their social conditions. The
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