What causes western feminists such discomfort when considering the question of sex-selective abortion, is that it exposes the absence of genuine autonomy when women resolve to abort and takes the arguments so often churned out in favour of abortion to the ugliest of logical conclusions.
The creation of more local structures was presented as an effort towards decentralization, but in the absence of financial autonomy, the dependency on RHAs remains strong.
In the absence of financial autonomy, some adolescent women (widowed, abandoned or separated) relied on their youth and attractiveness to get males to court them, in some cases, taking them on as lovers in exchange for financial support, irrespective of the man's reputation.
The mechanism described in the paper is still effective in the absence of ultimate female autonomy in marital choices, as long as at least one of the following assumptions holds: (i) women have some degree of decision-making power over their marital choices or (ii) parents have some degree of altruism towards their daughters.
This is not liberty as the mere absence of obstacles, but liberty as autonomy or self-realization.
In their eyes, we are the embodiment of the Muslim other shrouded in mystique and strangeness, disdain and pity, the emblem of subordination, backwardness, ignorance, of herd mentality and the absence of free will and autonomy.
The psychosocial well-being of the caregiver is affected by the presence or absence of grief and mourning, autonomy and meaning, and participation in social life.
However, achieving hospital efficiency is not easy, particularly nowadays when there are many hospitals suffering from the absence of administrative and financial autonomy, and also have budgets that ignore the actual services provided by them [ 2].
Nor do the service chiefs, jealous of their own autonomy.The absence of a strategic culture and the distrust between civilian-run ministries and the armed forces has undermined military effectiveness in another way by contributing to a procurement system even more dysfunctional than those of other countries.
At all levels of the hierarchy absence may be driven by physical job strain and lack of autonomy and satisfaction [ 26, 65].
