Background Numerous studies have been conducted in the West on the educational needs of minority students. These studies indicate that students from particular ethnic backgrounds have unsatisfactory educational experiences and various learning difficulties [1,2]. Although the HKSAR government, through its equal opportunity legislation, has committed itself to eliminating ethnic inequality, the ...

More than any other group, today’s young women and men will impact how people in rich and poor countries live in the 21 century. Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of youth—especially young women—lack education, skills and job training, employment opportunities, and health services effectively limiting their futures at a very early age. As a result, youth may react by unleashing risky or harmf...

In addition, a range of physical, cultural, and financial obstacles make it difficult for women and community members to use maternal health services, even if they are available and of reasonable quality.Women’s low status, lack of education and employment opportunities, and limited rights and freedoms affect their ability to receive good-quality skilled care. Overcoming these barriers requires...

Generating effective employment opportunities is one of the principal challenges faced by development planners in Iran. If investment projects are undertaken on the basis of sectoral priorities in production and employment, the economic and social problems emanating from unemployment will be reduced, helping the Country’s process of development. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify key...

Multivariate analysis of the 1974 Malaysian Fertility and Family Survey tests the hypothesis that an inverse relationship between women's work and fertility occurs only when there are serious conflicts between working and caring for children. The results are only partly consistent with the hypothesis and suggest that normative conflicts between working and mothering affect the employment-fertil...