Comprehensive and up-to-date information on the characteristics of women in Belgian prisons is currently not available. To address this evidence gap, survey data were collected from 211 incarcerated women (88% response rate) who represent 80% of all female prisoners in Flanders. Findings indicate a profile that is characterized by socioeconomic dis...
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In de Vlaamse overheid is er momenteel nog steeds sprake van een genderonevenwicht op het topkaderniveau. Op lagere kaderniveaus en niet-kaderniveaus is er minder sprake van een genderonevenwicht, wat wijst op een mindere doorstroom van vrouwen naar topkader. De huidige studie onderzocht op zowel een kwalitatieve als kwantitatieve manier waarom vro...
During the First World War, France, likeother combatant parties, interned civilian populations from countries with which it was at war. One of these French internment camps was the Convent of Garaison (Hautes-Pyrénées), intended specifically to accommodate families, women, and children. From 1915 on, after their repatriation to Germany or Switzerla...
Women’s work has never been a linear process of extending participation. Instead, female labour force participation (FLFP) has extended and curtailed throughout time. This dissertation studies a period of contraction: the nineteenth-century Netherlands. This country makes an important case study to explore the factors influencing the trajectory of ...
For more than two decades, the exploitation and trade of minerals has fuelled armed conflict and fostered a climate of insecurity that has led to the deaths of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (Katanga, Ituri, Maniema, North and South Kivu). This has been seen as a consequence of prolonged socioeconomic and poli...
Located within the nexus between identity and livelihoods, this thesis explores how the economic activities of fisher livelihoods are shaped by socio-cultural, political and identity dynamics, and how fisher livelihoods, in turn, shape and reproduce these dynamics in post-war Sri Lanka’s coastal district of Trincomalee. The analysis focuses on the ...
The contents of this dissertation are based on a quantitative and qualitative survey that was conducted to assess the contribution of microcredit access of women to production and household food security status, and the factors associated with enterprise performance and food security outcomes. In order to do so four main issues were addressed: (a) ...
