Download or read book Rural Women and Their Quality of Life written by Sharmistha Bhattacharjee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There Is No Absolute Standard Of Living That Is Universally Accepted Although The People Living In Western Capitalist Societies Are Often Considered To Enjoy A Higher Quality Of Life. Quality Of Life , However, Varies In Time, Space And Culture. What Is Better In One Culture May Not Be So In Another. People S Desires, Expectations In Material And Economic Life As Well As Preceptions Of Good Life Vary Across Cultures. Good Health, Wealth, High Political Power And Education May Not Always Be The Only Criteria For A Better Quality Of Life . Prevailing Social Norms, Cultural Ideologies, And Personal Values May Also Influence An Individual s Quality Of Life . This Book, Rural Women And Their Quality Of Life Is A Comprehensive And Most Valuable Document On The Subject. An Empirical Investigation Into The Life-Situations Of Rural Women Belonging To The Different Communities Viz. Caste Hindus, Muslims And Santals With Distinct Socio-Cultural Practices And Ideologies; And Critical Notes On Their Quality Of Life In Objective As Well As Subjective Terms Have Been Presented In This Publication. The Power, Priviledges And Autonomy That The Women Enjoy In The Public Domain Are, However, Used Not To Form A Separate World Of Women But To Reinforce Their Community Life. The World Of Women Of All The Communities In The Villages Mentioned In This Book Is Primarily Centred Around Their Household, Family And Lineage. This Publication Will Serve The Interest Of Teachers, Researchers, Students Of Sociology; As Well As Administrators, Planners And Social Workers.
Download or read book Old Female and Rural written by B Jan Mcculloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reading Old, Female, and Rural, you’ll discover just that--the reality concerning the daily living situations of the nation’s older female populations in rural places. This scholarly collection will help you and others dispel the romantic frontier myths of the stoic, tenacious, and independent rural woman. Instead, you’ll find real direction for change in the statistics that truly reflect the older rural woman’s mental, physical, economical, and social existence. Old, Female, and Rural will show you stark realities concerning the older rural female’s economic well-being, intergenerational family relationships, health care and service delivery availability, and long-term care concerns. The candid demographic and epidemiological data you discover in this book will not only expose the myths for what they are, but also allow you and others to transform the myths into daily realities of better policies and better living standards for the women who belong to this population subgroup. Specifically, you’ll read about: one woman’s subjective evaluation of growing old in a rural area rural women’s experiences of accessing health care the economic well-being of women aging in nonmetro areas changes in the informal support networks of women aging in the rural southwest a comprehensive synthesis of the above isolated topics, which provides future implications for research, education, and policy While the legends of the old American frontier have died, the older female populations in America’s rural areas live on--and they deal with some very challenging realities. Old, Female, and Rural takes you into the homes, lives, and minds of this complex and unique subgroup of America’s elders and points you and public administrators, government officials, educators, and civil servants toward the unsettled frontier of real social change.
Download or read book Rural Women s Quality of Life Under Structural Adjustment Policy and Programmes written by Patience Elabor-Idemudia and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Women s Health written by Raymond T. Coward, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Women's Health encompasses the breadth and depth of the unique physical and psychological needs facing rural women throughout the United States and Canada, and identifies positive interventions and outcomes. Raymond T. Coward, founding editor of The Journal of Rural Health, along with five leading practitioners and researchers with contributions from over 25 educators, authors, program leaders, and researchers representing the multidisciplinary spectrum of rural health professionals, present the most comprehensive coverage on rural women's health that exists today. Key issues covered include: Socio-cultural stressors Policy changes Barriers to accessing mental health treatment Obesity and risk factors Behavioral risk factors Chronic diseases Exercise, nutrition, and health promotion programs Education and telehealth This is a valuable resource for mental health service providers, gerontologists, social workers, psychologists, counselors, and primary care physicians.
Download or read book Quality Of Life Of Farm Women written by Savita Aggarwal and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book throws much needed light on the quality of life enjoyed by the rural women who work on farm, look after animals and also do the household chores for the family. It will be of interest to all related with the studies focussing on working women. Hardbound,New Book
Download or read book The Quality of Life in Rural Asia written by David Elliot Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of rural Asia's 30-year population increase, this book reviews trends and patterns in the quality of life, identifies and analyzes options for private and public policies for the improvement of the quality of life, and assesses the prospects for the quality of life in the context of globalization, privatization, and technological change.
Download or read book Women in Agriculture written by Linda M. Ambrose and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have always been skilled at feeding their families, and historians have often studied the work of rural women on farms and in their homes. However, the stories of women who worked as agricultural researchers, producers, marketers, educators, and community organizers have not been told until now. Taking readers into the rural hinterlands of the rapidly urbanizing societies of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, the essays in Women in Agriculture tell the stories of a cadre of professional women who acted to bridge the growing rift between those who grew food and those who only consumed it. The contributors to Women in Agriculture examine how rural women’s expertise was disseminated and how it was received. Through these essays, readers meet subversively lunching ladies in Ontario and African American home demonstration agents in Arkansas. The rural sociologist Emily Hoag made a place for women at the US Department of Agriculture as well as in agricultural research. Canadian rural reformer Madge Watt, British radio broadcaster Mabel Webb, and US ethnobotanists Mary Warren English and Frances Densmore developed new ways to share and preserve rural women’s knowledge. These and the other women profiled here updated and expanded rural women’s roles in shaping their communities and the broader society. Their stories broaden and complicate the history of agriculture in North America and Western Europe. Contributors: Linda M. Ambrose, Maggie Andrews, Cherisse Branch-Jones, Joan M. Jensen, Amy McKinney, Anne Moore, Karen Sayer, Margreet van der Burg, Nicola Verdon
Download or read book The Women Of Rural Asia written by Robert Orr Whyte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the social and economic status, family and workforce roles, and quality of life of women in the rural sectors of monsoonal and equatorial Asia, from Pakistan to Japan, where life often is characterized by unemployment, underemployment, and poverty.
Download or read book The Quality of Rural Family Life written by E. A. Cebotarev and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empowerment of Rural Women written by M. P. Boraian and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Dindigul District in Tamil Nadu, India.
Download or read book Variability in the Quality of Life of Literate and Non literate Rural Women microform a Nigerian Account written by Benedicta Egbo and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1997 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empowering The Rural Women written by Surya Rathore and published by New India Publishing Agency. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To address the goal 5 (Gender Equality) of Sustainable Development, it is deemed vital that we first understand the gender inequalities and the contribution of the second gender, i.e. women. We need to bring women into the mainstream to bring both genders at par. Since most of our population lives in villages, we need to have an in-depth knowledge of rural women's role in the development and understand the means and ways to empower them holistically, be it in terms of education, social, technological, political, legal etc. Today's environment calls for a need for women in rural areas to go in for bringing the various drudgery-reducing technologies into practice as well as empower themselves economically through Self Help Groups (SHGs). Rural women must understand the coping strategies associated with climate change which is again a challenge, and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to be more informed and empowered citizens for the welfare of their families, communities, societies and the nation at large. To attain the national goal of doubling the farmers' income by 2022, rural women's economic contribution must be increased through entrepreneurship. To make this dream come true, rural women need to be educated, malnutrition in rural areas; especially among women, needs to be removed, they will have to be technologically empowered, and rural women need to break the shackles of traditional hiccups and be aware of the latest information related to government programmes and schemes along with legal literacy concerning them to be able to understand the various provisions made available by the government for them and to enable them to enforce the same. This book encapsulated all the required dimensions of rural women empowerment: education, health & nutrition, technological empowerment, political empowerment instruments like the Panchayati Raj system, economic empowerment through entrepreneurship, etc. It covers the health challenges of women labourers, hill women, drudgery issues of brick layering women, women and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and constriants to women's empowerment. A few case studies and success stories of women entrepreneurs find their place in this book. The book also provides solutions to the issues of rural women, such as knowledge about those government schemes and programmes that empower women and provides women strength with the golden rays of constitutional mandates to make them sabla from abla. In a nutshell, this book provides conceptual clarity regarding the concept of women empowerment, the different dimensions of empowerment, issues and strategies to cope with the same in one place.
Download or read book Empowerment of Rural Women Through Self Help Groups written by B. Suguna and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world there is a realization that the best way to tackle poverty and enable the community to improve its quality of life is through social mobilization of poor, especially women into Self Help Groups. Ever since Independence a number of innovative schemes have been launched for the upliftment of women in our country. Indian Government has taken lot of initiatives to strengthen the institutional rural credit system and development programmes. Viewing it in the welfare programmes of Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) and shifting the concept of Development to Empowerment. The Indian Government adopted the approach of Self Help Groups (SHGs) to uplift the rural women. The empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (SHGs) would lead to benefits not only to the individual woman and women groups but also the families and community as a whole through collective action for development. The book will be highly useful to students of social studies especially Women Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Economics and also to the students and research scholars specialising in Human Development and NGO s and also other functionaries dealing with women.
Download or read book Perceptions of Life Quality in Rural America written by Robert W. Marans and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to concerns resulting from changes in metropolitan growth during the past decade, and the concomitant gain in population of nonmetropolitan areas, this study was conducted in an effort to understand the effects of such growth on the quality of rural life and the physical environment. Data analyzed dealt with safisfactions, perceptions, evaluations, behaviors, and environmental characteristics, as seen by rural residents in three national and one regional (northern Michigan) surveys conducted between 1971 and 1976. The studies, which included questionnaires, personal interviews, and telephone interviews, defined the population groups by age, race, income and educational levels, job status, and occupation, with the last three categories looked at separately for men and women. Results indicated a somewhat "mixed picture" of life in rural America. In most instances, a greater satisfaction than dissatisfaction was seen in rural areas than in urban areas, but rural residents taken as a whole were seen to be neither better nor worse off than urban Americans. Stemming from limitations of using available national data in characterizing life in rural America, six issues concerning research tasks were identified which should be addressed by policy makers and other groups and individuals concerned with the quality of rural life. (JD)
Download or read book Rural Women s Health written by Beverly Leipert and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play a critical role in the health of their families and communities, yet women’s health is often marginalized or ignored. There have been limited studies to date about rural women and health in Canada. Filling an important gap in scholarship, this collection identifies priority issues that must be addressed to ensure these women’s well-being and offers innovative theoretical and methodological ideas for improvement. Rural Women’s Health integrates perspectives from rural practitioners, residents, and scholars in a variety of fields, including nursing, sociology, anthropology, and geography, to tackle issues relevant to diverse settings across the country. As such, it presents a national perspective on the nature of women’s health while respecting internal and regional diversity, as well as viewpoints from international scholarship.
Download or read book Women in Farming and Improving Quality of Life in Rural Areas in Asia and the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Now There s a Good Woman written by Christine Marie Eisenhauer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims: This dissertation aimed to: (1) analyze the life-course experiences of rural, older women and the impact of those experiences on their values, health-illness behaviors and decision-making, particularly surrounding cognitive decline; (2) compare and contrast the values, health-illness behaviors and decision-making of the older women with those of three younger generations of rural women; and (3) examine findings with the local community to explore ways of working with the formal health care system to identify culturally acceptable ways to deal with cognitive decline. Background: Cognitive decline is a continuum that includes levels of memory problems, poor judgment, confusion, personality change, and difficulty with planning and social functioning. In a pilot study, rural, older women identified cognitive decline, or "losing one's mind," as the most significant fear and concern for which they desired interventions. The isolation of the rural lifestyle has made these women value independence and self-reliance as essential characteristics for survival. Chronic illnesses, such as progressive types of cognitive decline, significantly threaten the functional and cognitive independence, safety, and quality of life of this population. Method: An ethnographic design utilized in-depth life history interviews with four key informants across one year, focus groups with cross-generational cohorts (n=20), participant observation, and review of cultural artifacts. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed. Findings: Findings include: (1) historical knowledge indicates belonging, (2) drifting about but not out, (3) gender roles- men protect from outside, women protect from inside, (4) neighbors as a network, (5) trust as an exchangeable commodity, (6) the new outsiders: health service insensitivity reinforces distrust, (7) then and now: loss of social capital, (8) come and eat, (9) there's no place like home, (10) self-determination, (11) all natural please, (12) suffering continuum, (13) stoicism begets emotional disconnect with the health-illness experience, (14) I need help but it is a private matter, and (15) protective silence-avoidance. Conclusion: The findings provide a greater understanding of rural culture, help to personalize health care through sensitivity to culture and generation, decrease disparities in access to care related to rural isolation and improve health outcomes for rural women facing cognitive decline.
