Self help groups have been working for the empowerment of women since its inception. In system destitution lightening and empowerment, government India has given significant space to women's self What are Characteristics based gathering models neediness easing that being actualized in nation? How poor composed into groups? do group work? Also, what commitment these empowerment? Secondary data u...

Women, the minority population in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, are fast becoming one of the highest subgroups to be infected and affected by the disease. In the United States, most of these women are black or Hispanic, poor and urban dwellers, and addicted to drugs. This paper discusses the physical, psychological, and social manifestations of HIV disease in women, such as d...

Little guidance exists about how to tailor empowerment and resistance sexual assault programming to be responsive to varying groups of women. Using an investigation of 415 college women who completed a self-administered survey about a range of sexually aggressive experiences by a known male assailant, this investigation tested for distinct multivariate profiles of contextual factors among sexua...

BACKGROUND As the core of health promotion, proper assessment of empowerment is a base for planning for a process that increases people's control on their decisions, lifestyle, and effective activities for their health. OBJECTIVE To design and develop a special tool to assess the empowerment of NGO women in Iran. METHODS This successive exploratory study of combinational type was conducted ...

Empowerment concerning people with diabetes is well researched. However, few researchers specifically focus on the barriers to and facilitators of empowerment in Iranian people with diabetes. Understanding the factors could help health professionals facilitate self-empowerment more effectively. This study aims to determine the barriers to and facilitators of empowerment in Iranian people with d...

BACKGROUND Many women living with HIV experience gendered power inequalities, particularly in their intimate relationships, that prevent them from achieving optimal sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and exercising their rights. We assessed the effectiveness of interventions to improve self-efficacy and empowerment of women living with HIV to make SRH decisions through a systematic review. ...

this study has investigated the effects of ict to increase efficiency and empowerment of rural women using data envelopment analysis (dea) to investigate the mechanism of effectiveness of information technology (ict) on the efficiency and empowerment of rural women in the village of gharn abad, golestan province. in this study, using survey methods, 38 users and 25 non-users of technology (cont...

The aim of this paper is to explore the status of women‘s empowerment through reserved seats at the lower level of decentralized body, especially Union Parishad (here after UP) in Bangladesh. The paper also tries to find out major challenges towards women empowerment in UP. At the same time, there will be an attempt to provide some suggestions to overcome those challenges. The study is based on...

Last week, we explored women's views of whether birthplans empower them in the birth process. This week, the second half of the study is presented. It explored the perceptions of empowerment from ten midwives, using the birthplan as a tool. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews. The findings indicated that several factors could disempower the women as well as the midwives. For women...