the ongoing women's poverty and gender discrimination, owing to various cultural and historical constraints on their socio-economic status and advancement, has raised different approaches in the literature, namely women's empowerment. within a conceptual framework of poverty and empowerment this paper intends to probe into different facets of the empowerment of women-headed households...

our country, iran is one of the countries in the world population it has become a social problem. iran's population growth despite decreased rate in recent years is still relatively high and due to the young population, there is also the possibility of increased population growth in the coming years. this study aimed to assess the reproductive status of working women (in education and training ...

this study was designed by the goal of investigating the attitudes toward childbearing, with an emphasis on lifestyle factors among pre- marriage women referring to health care networks have been conducted in tehran. for the purpose of research, survey and questionnaires were used. according to the statistical society ,384 women were selected as sample in tehran. the theoretical framework of th...

iran in recent decades with the steep fall in fertility is facing a demographic issue. according to the movement of iranian society towards modernity as a result of lifestyle changes, the big question raised in the present research is that ”what lifestyle changes can affect reproductive attitudes of activists?” this study was designed aiming at investigating the attitudes toward childbearing, w...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Dental caries is a common problem in pregnant women which has negative impacts on their quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate pregnant women’s dental caries status and its associated risk factors in Shiraz, Iran, in 2014.METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, we selected 423 pregnant women attending Shiraz governmental health centers for routine obstetric e...

approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

this survey assessed predisposing factors of preeclampsia and eclampsia in persons referring to governmental hospitals of hormozgan province. samples of this study were pregnant women who had preeclampsia and eclampsia and also pregnant women who had not preeclampsia and eclampsia (control group) referring to governmental hospitals of hormozgan province from september 1994 to february 1995. all...