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Patriarchal Beliefs, Women

This paper tries to highlight the point that the depowerment of women is linked to the belief and practice of patriarchy which subjugates women at various levels like political, economic, social, and cultural. Overcoming the belief and practice of patriarchy is termed as eve empowerment in this pap...

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Main Author: Rawat, Preeti S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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520 |a This paper tries to highlight the point that the depowerment of women is linked to the belief and practice of patriarchy which subjugates women at various levels like political, economic, social, and cultural. Overcoming the belief and practice of patriarchy is termed as eve empowerment in this paper. The paper also distinguishes between eve empowerment and psychological empowerment. Both these variables are linked to the experience of general well-being. The results indicate that by countering patriarchy, women experience greater eve empowerment and psychological empowerment. 
650 |a General Well-Being 
650 |a Psychological Empowerment 
650 |a Eve Empowerment 
650 |a Patriarchy 
773 |a Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers  |d April - June 
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