Girls' secondary education in Uganda: Assessing policy within the women's empowerment framework

Gender and Education

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-413

  Jones, Shelley Kathleen ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Development studies; Equality; Ethnography; Girls; Secondary education; Sub saharan africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960888008     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2010.499854     Document Type: Article

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