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“What Can She Say” Exploring the Negative Impact of Child Marriages on Women’s Meaningful Participation in the Public Sphere
No full textHaving been born in a family of 13 by a woman who got married at 15 years of age and was
abused, oppressed and refused her right to education and to participate in the public sphere,
as a women’s law researcher I seek explore the negative impact of child marriages on women
participation in the public sphere. Child marriage is one of the factors that diminish women
capacity and agency which then leads to ineffective participation.
The international and regional instruments and the constitution Zimbabwe protect girls from
child marriage and provide the right for women participation in decision making positions.
Be that as it may, lack of resources, trivialisation of child marriage practise by law
enforcement agents, the courts and other state institutions and lack of political will is fuelling
early marriages in Epworth. Culture and traditional beliefs and practises that encourage child
marriage regard the public sphere as a place for men and that, women should participate
according to the roles assigned to them in the family and society.
Different methodological approaches where employed in the field research which included
the women’s law, grounded and the human rights approach as they unearthed women lived
realities through the one on one interviews, focus group discussions, key informants
interviews and observations. The interviews revealed that most child brides do not
meaningfully participate in the public sphere. Most of them drop out of school, are abused,
oppressed and forced into submission. Their capabilities are deformed and most of them have
resorted to vegetable vending and sex working as a way of living. The law enforcement
agents have trivialised the child marriage practise and the lack of effective implementation of
the best interests of the child principle has exposed girls to sexual abuse and exploitation
which eventually leads to child marriages. Cultural practise of payment of lobola and poverty
has reduced girls into commodities for sell and pushes them into early marriage. Though the
Education Policy and Education Act provides for the right to education and the Constitution
has provided for the same right to be provided freely, the right is limited to availability of
resources to which the state has prioritised the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of
indigenization and very little to state funded education for children coming from poor
families. It is recommended that there is need to effectively implement constitutional
provisions that protect girls from child marriages and for the state to resource the education
policy and social welfare
“What can she say†Exploring the negative impact of child marriages on women’s meaningful participation in the public sphere
No full textHaving been born in a family of 13 by a woman who got married at 15 years of age and was abused, oppressed and refused her right to education and to participate in the public sphere, as a women’s law researcher I seek explore the negative impact of child marriages on women participation in the public sphere. Child marriage is one of the factors that diminish women capacity and agency which then leads to ineffective participation. The international and regional instruments and the constitution Zimbabwe protect girls from child marriage and provide the right for women participation in decision making positions. Be that as it may, lack of resources, trivialisation of child marriage practise by law enforcement agents, the courts and other state institutions and lack of political will is fuelling early marriages in Epworth. Culture and traditional beliefs and practises that encourage child marriage regard the public sphere as a place for men and that, women should participate according to the roles assigned to them in the family and society. Different methodological approaches where employed in the field research which included the women’s law, grounded and the human rights approach as they unearthed women lived realities through the one on one interviews, focus group discussions, key informants interviews and observations. The interviews revealed that most child brides do not meaningfully participate in the public sphere. Most of them drop out of school, are abused, oppressed and forced into submission. Their capabilities are deformed and most of them have resorted to vegetable vending and sex working as a way of living. The law enforcement agents have trivialised the child marriage practise and the lack of effective implementation of the best interests of the child principle has exposed girls to sexual abuse and exploitation which eventually leads to child marriages. Cultural practise of payment of lobola and poverty has reduced girls into commodities for sell and pushes them into early marriage. Though the
Education Policy and Education Act provides for the right to education and the Constitution has provided for the same right to be provided freely, the right is limited to availability of resources to which the state has prioritised the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of indigenization and very little to state funded education for children coming from poor families. It is recommended that there is need to effectively implement constitutional provisions that protect girls from child marriages and for the state to resource the education policy and social welfare.,NORA
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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