objective: examining the interrelationship between quality of life, hardiness, selfefficacy and self-esteem among working (professional and non-professional), and non-working married women has motivated the researcher to launch this study. method: the samples in the present study consisted of 250 married employed women and 250 married unemployed women in the age range of 24-41 years old belongi...

This technical report describes the participation of women in computing in more than 30 countries, by focussing on participation at undergraduate level. A brief discussion covers how societal and cultural factors may affect women’s participation. Statistics from many different sources are presented for comparison. Generally, participation is low – most countries fall in the 10-40% range with a ...

This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order...

Being attractive is believed to give many benefits in life. Economic studies have observed that physical attractiveness associated with a higher wage. The of being been perceived from early age, the labor market, and marriage market. Despite all advantages beauty brings, efforts are made achieve or maintain attractiveness. People spend substantial resources, such as time money, enhance appearan...

25 ONE of the most neglected areas of health research is that involving effects of accidents and injuries on the lives of rural populations. A vast majority of the epidemiological studies on health of rural populations have concentrated on infectious diseases. In these studies the problems of women are clubbed together as those falling within the ambit of maternal and child health. A study done...