Gender Microfinance Essays and Term Papers
222 Essays on Gender Microfinance. Documents 151 - 175
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Legal Aid Projects Try to Abolish Gender Hierarchies in India
Since Independence in 1947 a variety of laws have been enacted with the objective to improve the status of women (Society For Social Uplift Through Rural Action, 2003). Despite this modern constitution, gender discrimination in various forms is widespread (ibid.). A legal aid scheme was held by Community Aid Abroad (CAA) for women workers in India. Beyond any doubt, CAA resolved leaving no stone unturned to help them. The traditional life of Indian women is
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Statement of the Problem Female and Male Gender
Introduction Statement of the problem Female and male gender Roles in today’s society reflect on more than just what others think about the man and female role. This paper will also show how and why people think this way. At the time of conception male and female babies are influenced to act a certain way by the actions of the people around them the most. A baby’s sex distinction is developed prior to birth. Gender
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Discuss the Nature Of, and Explanations For, Gender Inequalities in Society
Gender inequality discusses how differences between males and females contribute to, or cause, social and cultural differences. Society has grown to have differences between men and women with greater emphasis of inequality on women. There is evidence to suggest that women generally tend not to work in skilled jobs in the construction and engineering sectors and few men working in secretarial positions (1996 Labour Force Survey) does this mean that men are more skilled than
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Is Gender Identity the Result of Biology?
Human beings are born sexual. They develop a strong sense of being male and female, the human behaviour of being a man or a woman is called gender identity. The characteristics of being a man or a woman involve biological, psychological, and sociological factors. People from all cultures have acted in relationships in different ways that are influenced by their cultural traditions and laws about sex. Human sexuality and how males and females act within
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Thoughts on Tania Modleski's “cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film”
Tania Modleski’s “Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film,” discusses how popular film perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling images of black women include: the mammy, the jezebel, and the sapphire. While Modelski doesn’t analyze the sapphire stereotype, she does use Whoppi Goldberg’s past film roles as examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over- sexualized jezebel. While I could clearly see Modelski’s comparison of Goldberg’s roles and
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Gender and Media
Throughout society, men and women have been expected to live by guidelines consisting of media generated ideas and ways of living out life. Both men and women’s thinking process are being altered the negative effects of society’s mass media. For both sexes, this repeating negative exposure causes a constant downfall in self-image and creates media influenced decisions that lead to unhealthy lifestyles. The media effects the thinking process of both men and women in
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The Role of Gender in Consumer Behavior
The Role of Gender in Consumer Behavior Needs, wants, motives, values and actions are all critical components of the human experience. Who we are is very much a combination of our experiences and our genetic code. In this context, understanding the role of gender role in society is extremely important when looking at how people perceive and react to various stimuli. This paper reviews how males and females differ biologically, psychologically and culturally, and how
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Gender Inequality
i am a missouristate student. i am majoring in english writing. Humanity consists of two wings: male and the female. As long as these two wings are imbalance and in equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly. The persistent denial of equality in our world is a milestone to human dignity. Violence against women is universal and has been described as the most pervasive, yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world. Women
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Gender Differences in the Workplace
Alcantara 1 Aaron Alcantara Professor Padilla-Wilson Anthropology 5LS 27 March 2006 “Gender Differences in the Workplace” To get a piece of the American Dream, you have to earn it. For a marginal portion of the population in America, they are either born with the wealth or obtained it quickly and easily. For many of us, it takes a long while until we see that Dream become a reality. Some of us work at home, some
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Inequalities as Portrayed in the Media: A Gender Analysis
Inequalities as Portrayed in the Media: A Gender Analysis Media plays a big role in conventional Canadian society. It is becoming more and more influential and a bigger part of everyone’s daily lives. Since the invention and spread of the use of the printing press in the mid fifteen-hundreds, societies have been able to produce mass quantities of information available to the general public. Books were printed and made available to a large audience, replacing
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Gender
The first time that I remember becoming aware of my > gender identity and that of those around me was > probably when I was in nursery school. Of course we > all new that there was boys and girls, but thats as > much as we ever gave any thought to it. You could > notice even at that young of an age how the boys > played with the trucks and building blocks
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Explore the Relationship Between Sex Difference and Gender Identity
Question: Explore the relationship between sex difference and gender identity The relationship between sex difference and gender identity is a very controversial many people have different views about what the two mean. One could define sex difference as the biological and physical characteristics of a human being, this can be the differences found in a male and female. Gender identity can be said to be what makes one a female or a male. The characteristics
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Gender Roles
Since the beginning of time men have played the dominant role in nearly every culture around the world. If the men were not dominant, then the women and men in the culture were equal. Never has a culture been found where women have dominated. In “Society and Sex Roles” by Ernestine Friedl, Friedl supports the previous statement and suggests that “although the degree of masculine authority may vary from one group to the next,
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Sexual and Gender Diversity
I chose to research the Sexual and Gender Diversity websites for my assignment. The websites that are listed in the book for this chapter are as follows: http://gender.org/, http://www.iglhrc.org/, http://www.pflagcanada.ca/, http://www.egale.ca In the websites I have read I have found "many" interesting facts and resources. In particular, the Egale website has articles which are about taking action against homophobia in our schools, lesbian and gay rights and etc. In order to fight for gay rights
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Gender, Kinship and Marriage
Gender, Kinship and Marriage Introduction According to Kottak, Kinship or Kin groups are “social units whose members can be identified and whose residence patterns and activities can be observed”. A good example of this is a nuclear family which is the most prominent in state societies as well as foraging bands which we discussed previously. Gender (which I based) several questions on is defined by Kottak as “the cultural construction of sexual difference”. What Kottak
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Microfinance in an Emerging Economy: an India Perspective
Microfinance in an Emerging Economy: An India Perspective INDEX Executive Summary Introduction What Statistics say? Microcredit Commercial Microfinance Industry Characteristics of Commercial Microfinance Characteristics of most Lending Microfinance in Asia Indian Microfinance Context: A Brief History Microfinance providers in India India advantage of building large scale CMF Rural Credit Scenario in India India: How can large scale CMF Develop? What is Lacking? And What needs to be done? Microfinance Policy and Regulatory Framework Role of
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Gender Stereotypes in Magazines
The conflict and controversy surrounding events in India during the British occupation helped give rise to many conflicting ideas about British rule. Although they varied in degree, the ultimate ideas would question the authority of British dominance, overall. Interpretation of Rebellious events during the nineteenth century between British and Nationalist writers, expose the differing opinion of the two groups. The British naturally aspired to downplay any acts of rebellion, while their Indian counterparts attempted to
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Gender
Children are faced with gender stereotypes all the time whether they realize it or not. The media plays a big part in this, and in many cases these stereotypes are often internalized without the children even being aware of it. There are several different forms of media, however television seems to be the most influential one. Research on television viewing and children’s socialization has even shown that television has a great impact on children’s lives.
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Addressing Cultural and Gender Differences
One of the main ethical issues that companies face is one of social responsibility. By changing my company to one that is socially responsible would allow it to be viewed in a more positive light. Some efforts we could take would include volunteering time and making donations to local and national charitable organizations, such as The March of Dimes, Juvenile Diabetes Relief Fund, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Each year, each of
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Gender
Gender The meaning of gender is personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being a male or female. We decided to pick to two of the ways the gender can influence research. First there’s overgeneralizing in which sociologists use data from men to make conclusions about all people. Second, there’s double standards were researchers have to be careful not to judge men and women indifferently, such as when saying “man
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Submission Smells of Sulfur: Gender and Illness in the Yellow Wallpaper
Submission Smells of Sulfur: Gender and Illness in The Yellow Wallpaper During the 19th century, when Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper takes place, men reigned and women had little power over the definition of their roles, particularly middle and upper class women due to the lack of necessity for them to work outside the home. It was their only responsibilities to be modest, God-fearing, respectable women who took care of themselves and did not
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Gender Bending Chemicals
Gender Bending Chemicals A large portion of the population in the United States store food in plastic baggies, buy baby toys, has a shower Curtain, and everyone has or had a rubber ducky. Theses are all typical items for the normal household, but do you know what those items are made of and what kind of harm they can cause to the human body and especially pregnant mothers. There is a chemical in each of
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Gender Differences
I am investigating whether the National Curriculum enhances gender difference in schools to see if boys and girls have the same access into physical education. I will be looking at the teacher’s role and what their beliefs and attitudes are towards physical education, the national curriculum content on physical activity and what they believe in and I will investigate the attitudes of boys and girls doing P.E. Kirk and Tinning (1990) explain how research agencies
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Gender and Identity
Evaluation of the Impact Gender has on an Individuals Identity The most important question facing any human, be they male or female, is that of the discovery of their own identity. The majority of child development theories have dealt with the way in which children must learn to disengage their own identity from that of their parents (mothers in particular) and discover who they are as adults however this process is far from over when
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Gender Issue in Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde In many ways today’s society, even though women have come a long way, we still live in a patriarchal world. There are many examples of this in everyday life, whether it be that there aren’t very many women CEO’s or the mere fact that we’ve yet to have a woman president. No matter where you live, there is the presence of a male dominated world. It especially extends into the working fields. There
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