THE NEWLY NEGLECTED GENDER Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual‚ political‚ social‚ educational‚ gender‚ or economic strength of individuals and communities. Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has called on society to support endeavors to educate the boy child‚ even as it advocates girl child education. “Having done so much for the girl child‚ what do we do for the boy child who seems to be lagging behind? I personally think that it is time we encouraged the boy child in his
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Women Empowerment Gender divide had long been evident in the pages of history. Yes‚ we were then boxed in a culture where women are just but silhouette behind a pro- male gender society. Women were never regarded to be equally capacitated‚ strong and able as compared with men. Women were irrationally born as servants and die as servants for the benefit of men. We have reached a milestone for a breakthrough paving the way for gender parity. There no longer exist "man over women" standard; and
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Women continue to aspire for leadership positions in all spheres of governance in both the public and private sector. However it has not been easy. The paper will examine the many challenges women still face in taking leadership positions with specific reference to African women. Included in the paper are the barriers related to culture and cultural expectations‚ the choice and/or balance between work and family‚ and women’s own fear of success. Women continue to aspire to leadership positions
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Women in the Vedas and the Puranas: Empowered or Not? Dr. S.R.Ivaturi Reader in Sanskrit SRR & CVR Govt. College Vijayawada There has been a divided opinion regarding the position of women in the Vedic and Puranic ages. According to many scholars the Vedas accord a position of importance to women. There was considerable freedom enjoyed by them in matters of marriage‚ education etc. William Durant sums up the position of the Vedic woman thus: "Women enjoyed far greater freedom in the
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computer science been chosen by me as to remember the achievement that being done by him for this world and as to remember that he just passed away on 8th October 2011 but haven’t got the appreciation for what he has done. Rest in peace‚ Dennis Ritchie. Background Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born in Bronxville‚ New York‚ on September 9‚ 1941‚ and grew up in New Jersey‚ where his father‚ Alistair Ritchie‚ worked as a switching systems engineer for Bell Laboratories. His mother‚ Jean McGee Ritchie
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condition of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on one wing.” - Swami Vivekananda The most significant and longest social movement continuing is movement for emancipation of women. Though the primary goal for women empowerment is to improve the quality of life of women but it has also deep ramifications in social‚ economic and political scenario of body polity. The media through its reach to people at large has been instrumental though not to the extent desired
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by male society and suffer from gender inequality. In this essay we will discuss how communication for social change can play an important rolein women empowerment‚ gender equality‚ and education in the light of participatory model of communication‚ edutainment and discuss the UN Millennium goal that focuses on Gender equality and women empowerment keeping in mind articles of Universal declaration of Human rights. This essay will also discuss how a women from different backgrounds act as a catalyst
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Dennis Rader was a Christian man that lived his life as a normal person to everyone’s eyes‚ with a wife and children but on the inside he was a psychotic man. He had 10 known victims in a span of 25 years before the silence was broken and brought to justice. Dennis Radar was the first of four boys born to William and Dorothea Rader. He was baptized at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsburg‚ Kansas. As a child‚ Dennis appeared to be a normal and average boy. He was a Boy Scout and participated in church
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Known as the "BTK Killer" - which stands for "bind‚ torture‚ kill"- Dennis Rader terrorized the Wichita‚ Kansas‚ area from the 1970s to the 90s. ( Dennis Rader Biography). "Rader killed four members of the Otero family in their home - Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their children Josephine and Joseph Jr" (Dennis Rader Biography). "Rader confessed to at least 8 of the 10 murders that people and police say he committed"(Thomas). There was
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Title: Social Cognitive Learning Theory: An Integration Paper Name: Salve S. Resuello We have discussed a lot of topics in our Seminar on Educational Psychology class. These topics were very informative and relevant in the day to day activities of the teachers and I learned a lot from the discussions. One of the topics that I really like most is the Social Cognitive Learning Theory of Albert Bandura. This theory was focus on learning through observing others. As the discussant of this
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