...Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng; Francis Komla Ganyaglo; Awo Esaah Bempong; Andrews Ayiku; Ummu Markwei; Ernest Abraham Mensah Purpose The study examines the nexus between social protection policies and child labor from a gender-sensitive perspective in Ghana, a developing country context. Design...

...Joanna Mahjebeen; Priyanka Kumari Kushwaha Purpose This study explores how marriage practices in rural Assam are being reshaped by class aspirations, gender relations and media influence. It examines how traditional community-based marriages, once modest and participatory, are increasingly...

...Minjung Jung Purpose This study aims to investigate both macro- and micro-level causes of gendered vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic, using Ulsan, South Korea, as a case study. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a mixed-methods design, combining quantitative survey data...

... in Rwanda. Social implications The study demonstrates women's central role in environmental sustainability despite systemic barriers. It challenges traditional gender hierarchies and calls for fundamental social restructuring. Originality/value The study contributes a new understanding of how...

...Shakeel Ahmed Purpose This article explores the role of the gender of the household head in women's empowerment in Indian families. Design/methodology/approach This study used the data from the National Family Health Survey Round 5 (2019–20). A logit regression model was used to estimate...

.... Grounded theory methods were applied for thematic analysis, focusing on how space, infrastructure and identity intersect to produce psychosocial stress. Findings The study reveals five interrelated stress domains: (1) water scarcity and its management routines, (2) the gendered burden of domestic...

... the exploitation of husbands’ purported superior theological knowledge, religious rhetoric and gender norms to enforce behaviors and administer various forms of punishment. (3) Religious institutions not only legitimize RDV practices but sometimes also perpetrate them. Research limitations/implications...

...Senem Ertan; Fatma Yol; Rojda Aykac; Gokhan Savas Purpose This paper aims to examine the gender perceptions of members within women’s NGOs in Türkiye, highlighting the persistence of patriarchal values despite the rise in these organizations. The study provides insights into the influence of socio...

... relationships are formed. Design/methodology/approach The data are sourced from the 2012 Survey on Family and Changing Gender Roles of the International Social Survey Programme. The analytical strategy used has been binary logistic regression. Findings The results demonstrate that participation...

...Natalia Karmaeva; Petya Ilieva-Trichkova Purpose Against the recent reversal of the gender gap in higher education that has been observed in many countries, this paper aims to explore why there are better chances for lower social class women to access higher education than for higher social class...

... relationship subscale. Concerning the infant characteristics, the birth weight of the babies and the length of their hospitalization affected the parents' stress level. Looking at parents' sociodemographic characteristics instead, the greater predictors were gender, age and occupational social class...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Domestic outsourcing Trust Transaction costs Professionalisation Formalisation Factorial survey experiment Service vouchers Gender The management...

...Awinaba Amoah Adongo; Jonathan Mensah Dapaah; Francess Dufie Azumah Purpose Women are rarely seen in positions of leadership in patriarchal societies, which is unsurprising. Following gender equity policies, few women have been able to break through the gender equity barrier and assume leadership...

... or exacerbating inequality. The authors provide a more complete account of innovation by naming social impacts as a critical component of its sociological study and discussing examples that illustrate how innovation can produce disadvantageous effects by race, gender and social class. The authors move forward...

...? What do these rights look like under different care regimes? Do citizens have the right or duty to *provide* long-term care? It is already known that both formal and informal care across all welfare contexts is mainly provided by women and that this has serious implications for gender equality...

... at: hbakth.soc@rediffmail.com 18 10 2020 15 12 2020 30 12 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ao Nagas Challenges Kinship structures Gender Inequality Women Over the years, the discussion...

...Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi; Grace Fortson; Katherine Harder; Trevor Riedmann Refugees Gender Livelihoods COVID-19 United States Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi can be contacted at: golesork@up.edu 29 07 2020 01 11 2020 17 11 2020 This commentary draws on a mixed-method...

... in school, but it is unclear whether parents and teachers are sufficiently aware of their victimization. This paper is the first study to demonstrate how parents' nativity, gender and race/ethnicity are associated with children's unrecognized bullying victimization. Danielle Xiaodan Morales can...

.... Ordered logistic model was used to examine whether the size and composition of social networks differ by gender and socio-economic status. Linear growth curve models were employed to estimate the effect of social capital on long-term income development. Results indicate minor differences in network...

... of taking a critical view of the family when drafting development policies. Empowerment Conditional cash transfer Paid work Unpaid work Care Gender Brazil Conditional cash transfer programmes (CCT) were created in Brazil in the 1990s in a context characterized by the growth...