Empowering women: The role of economic development, political culture and institutional design in the world's societies

AC Alexander - 2007 - escholarship.org
Multiple literatures suggest that the following factors may figure prominently in explanations
of women's increasing empowerment: economic modernity factors, cultural modernity …

Defining and building civic capital: Making social capital civic

GW LeBlanc - 2007 - library-archives.canada.ca
The intent of this thesis is to identify ways of supporting civic engagement through an
understanding of'civic'capital. Since this concept stems from research done on social capital …

[PDF][PDF] The Impact of ICT Investments on Future Workforce Demography in Emerging Societies.

DS Soper - ICIS, 2007 - danielsoper.com
This paper reports on a research-in-progress investigation of the extent to which trends in
information and communication technology (ICT) investments impact the future trends of …

Gender, Work, and Family

R Siemieńska - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Women's participation in activities in the public sphere is accompanied by much slower
changes in the private sphere in all countries with different histories and different welfare …