Dalit people have been marginalized in different spheres of life since the dawn modern civilization. The situation women is even more complex. This paper aims at understanding marginalization a local context Bangladesh based on empirical evidences. Data for study were collected using mixed-method approach. findings reveal that to confront forms discrimination both their own community as well wi...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

INTRODUCTION The bioethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, complemented by ethics committee evaluation, define conduct of clinical trials of anti-epileptic medications (AEM). BACKGROUND INFORMATION Increased teratogenicity for offspring of women with epilepsy is presented in both lay and scientific literature. SPECIFIC DRUGS--OLDER GENERATION: Teratogenicity...

This article discusses Helen Safa's analyses of the impact of development strategies and social policies on gender relations and women headed families in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. The discussion focuses on findings of a research project regarding patterns of women's employment, autonomy, marital relations, family headship and poverty in Puerto Rico in the decade beginning in the year 2000,...

This paper sets out a simple non-cooperative model of resource allocation within the household in developing countries that incorporates domestic violence as an instrument for enhancing bargaining power. We demonstrate that the extent of domestic violence faced by women is not necessarily declining in their reservation utilities, nor necessarily increasing in their spouses’. Using the National ...

This paper reviews the literature on pregnancy, examining two dominant discourses: “the pregnant body as foetal containment” and illness”. A third discourse, which looks at complex ways in is used a site of agency autonomy, also presented. Rather than viewing solely condition compromises women’s subjectivity places them within strict boundaries societal structures, this overview argues for seei...

The study is an analysis of the relationship between household decision-making autonomy, family income status and intimate partner violence in Calabar South, Cross River State, Nigeria. Adopting exchange/social control theory, applied survey research design gathering data from 383 respondents using a structured interview questionnaire. Elicited was analyzed simple lineal regression at 0.05 alph...