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Gender and social security in Zimbabwe: An analysis of the efficacy of social security for women with disabilities in the informal sector
No full textThis dissertation interrogates the provision of and access to social security from a gendered perspective with particular reference to women with disabilities in the informal sector in Zimbabwe. This is an area of great interest to the writer who has and continues to interact extensively with women with disabilities at a personal and professional level, being a lawyer at the department of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs. The main argument that the writer seeks to earnestly put across is that despite the existence of the principles of equality and nondiscrimination, the idealistic notion that women with disabilities have a right to social security on an equal basis with everyone is still a dream whose fulfillment sadly remains uncertain in Zimbabwe. Through disability friendly research methods such as the one the writer chooses to call the sex, gender and disability analysis and the grounded approach, within the rubric of the women’s law approach, the writer passionately examines the torrid lived experiences of women
with disabilities, mainly in the informal sector, insofar as they access or fail to access social security schemes. Through an integration of information obtained from secondary sources of data such as books, legal instruments, online journals and articles, and data gathered during interviews with women and men with disabilities, women without disabilities and officials from the department of Social Services in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, the challenges faced by women with disabilities in accessing social security are unearthed. The overall picture obtained from the research findings is that the majority of women with disabilities are excluded from both formal and informal social security schemes due to, inter alia, the non-comprehensive and fragmented nature of formal social security mechanisms, the unregulated and inconsistent nature of informal safety nets and constrained financial resources on the part of women with disabilities to contribute to their coverage. This is compounded by the finding that there is no
comprehensive disability sensitive social security legal regime that guarantees women with disabilities the right to social security and which they could use to take responsible authorities to task for not providing such social security. Drawing from literature reviewed and primary sources of data, the writer recommends the establishment of a strong constitutional foundation for the respect, protection, promotion and fulfillment of the right to social security. This should be complemented by the enactment of a comprehensive disability and gender sensitive Act. This will set a serious tone which will compel or oblige policy makers to allocate substantial resources towards the funding of social security schemes targeting women with disabilities.,NORA
Gender and Social Security in Zimbabwe: An Analysis of the Efficacy of Social Security for Women with Disabilities in the Informal Sector
No full textThis dissertation interrogates the provision of and access to social security from a gendered
perspective with particular reference to women with disabilities in the informal sector in
Zimbabwe. This is an area of great interest to the writer who has and continues to interact
extensively with women with disabilities at a personal and professional level, being a lawyer at
the department of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs. The main argument that the writer
seeks to earnestly put across is that despite the existence of the principles of equality and nondiscrimination,
the idealistic notion that women with disabilities have a right to social security on
an equal basis with everyone is still a dream whose fulfillment sadly remains uncertain in
Zimbabwe. Through disability friendly research methods such as the one the writer chooses to
call the sex, gender and disability analysis and the grounded approach, within the rubric of the
women’s law approach, the writer passionately examines the torrid lived experiences of women
with disabilities, mainly in the informal sector, insofar as they access or fail to access social
security schemes. Through an integration of information obtained from secondary sources of
data such as books, legal instruments, online journals and articles, and data gathered during
interviews with women and men with disabilities, women without disabilities and officials from
the department of Social Services in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, the challenges faced
by women with disabilities in accessing social security are unearthed. The overall picture
obtained from the research findings is that the majority of women with disabilities are excluded
from both formal and informal social security schemes due to, inter alia, the non-comprehensive
and fragmented nature of formal social security mechanisms, the unregulated and inconsistent
nature of informal safety nets and constrained financial resources on the part of women with
disabilities to contribute to their coverage. This is compounded by the finding that there is no
comprehensive disability sensitive social security legal regime that guarantees women with
disabilities the right to social security and which they could use to take responsible authorities to
task for not providing such social security. Drawing from literature reviewed and primary
sources of data, the writer recommends the establishment of a strong constitutional foundation
for the respect, protection, promotion and fulfillment of the right to social security. This should
be complemented by the enactment of a comprehensive disability and gender sensitive Act. This
will set a serious tone which will compel or oblige policy makers to allocate substantial
resources towards the funding of social security schemes targeting women with disabilities
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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