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  Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the issue of feminism in African novel

  2015

  The multi-award winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has distinguished herself as one of Nigerian’s most successful female writers, and in this essay published in the Journal for Humanities and Art Studies, Ibeku Ijeoma Ann uses one of her most famous works, Purple Habiscus, to explore the issue of feminism in the African novel.
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  Do digital information and communications technologies increase the voice and influence of women and girls?

  Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2015

  Do digital information and communications technologies increase the voice and influence of women and girls? That is the question asked of this Overseas Development Institute’s literature review, part of a two-year Learning and Evidence Project on Women’s Voice and Leadership in Decision-Making project.
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  Making waves: media’s potential for girls in the Global South

  BBC Media Action, 2014

  Doubly marginalised by both gender and age, there are an estimated 600 million adolescent girls in the world, many of whom live a bleak existence. For these girls, exclusion from basic public services, lack of autonomy, and vulnerability to violence are real and persistent risks.
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  Gender Equity and Diversity: Facilitator Manual. Module 501 Engaging Men and Boys for Gender Equality

  CARE International, 2013

  This is a facilitator’s manual for training staff on how to engage men and boys in development programming, and how engaging men and boys for women’s empowerment benefits everyone. It includes a range of activities intended to explore practitioners’ understanding of where gender norms come from.
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  Women’s Rights Online: Translating Access into Empowerment

  2015

  This research, based on a survey of poor urban men and women across nine developing countries, found that while the majority of men and women own a mobile phone, women are still nearly 50% less likely to access the Internet than men in the same communities.
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  ICT and employment promotion among poor women: how can we make it happen? Some reflections on Kerala's experience

  Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008

  This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative women based participatory programme)
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  Migration and gender empowerment: Recent trends and emerging issues

  United Nations Development Programme, 2009

  Women are increasingly significant as national and international migrants, and it is now evident that the complex relationship between migration and human development operates in gender differentiated ways. However, because migration policy has typically been gender-blind, an explicit gender perspective is necessary.
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  We do it ourselves: Nijera Kori and the struggle for economic and gender justice in Bangladesh', EMERGE Story of Change 2

  BRIDGE, 2015

  This story of change pulls out the key findings and messages from EMERGE case study 2, which explores the work of Nijera Kori - a national social movement in Bangladesh fighting for economic and gender justice. 
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  The right of access to information: exploring gender inequities

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016

  The right of access to information is a fundamental and universal right, necessary for economic empowerment and the fulfilment of other rights. However, the recent study discussed in this article demonstrates that women are not able to exercise this right with the same frequency, ease and rate of success as men.
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  Empowerment is a community affair: community level determinants of married women’s empowerment in Egypt

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  The concern with women’s empowerment has been rising in Egypt, especially after the revolution of the 25th of January and its second wave in the 30th of June 2013. The current paper indicates that these events have heightened societal concerns about women’s role in the public sphere as well as her critical role inside her own household.

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