[ AGR ] Agriculture & Rural Economy
- AGRARIAN POLICY
- Includes agrarian reform and land reform
- AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
- AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
- Agricultural Production
- AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
- Includes rice, fruit, vegetable, sugar, coconut and other crops
- AGRO-INDUSTRY
- Includes industrial forestry, and industrial plantations
- CHEMICAL INTENSIVE FARMING
- The use of pesticides and fertilizers in farming and the dangers of their use. Includes Integrated Pest Management. See also Environmental Hazards and Health Hazards.
- COOPERATIVES
- Refers to cooperatives and includes small socio-economic projects
- FARMERS
- Includes peasants
- FISHERIES AND MARINE RESOURCE
- FOOD PRODUCTION
- Use Agricultural Production
- HOME-BASED WORKERS
- LAND OWNERSHIP
- LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
- ORGANIC FARMING
- PESTICIDES AND FERTILIZERS
- PESTS
- RURAL AREAS
- RURAL DEVELOPMENT
- Includes community, infrastructure, and local government
- RURAL ECONOMY
- RURAL HEALTH CARE
- RURAL WOMEN
- Includes farm workers and women working in agriculture
- SMALL-SCALE FARMING
- SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
[ COM ] Communication & Information
- ADVERTISING
- ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
- Includes people's and women's media such as storytelling, visual, and performance arts
- CENSORSHIP
- COMMUNICATION EDUCATION
- COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
- Includes New Information Technologies (NITs)
- GLOBALIZATION OF MEDIA
- INFORMATION CENTERS
- Includes information services, information processing, documentation centers and databanks
- INFORMATION NETWORKS
- Consortia of information centers, libraries, resource centers and databanks, INTERNET
- MAINSTREAM MEDIA
- Includes print, film, radio, and TV whether privately-owned or publicly-owned
- PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN MEDIA
- How women are portrayed/depicted in media. Includes stereotyping and images of women.
- VIOLENCE IN MEDIA
[ CUL ] Culture
- ACCULTURATION
- Transformation of a society or group in contact with another which adapted to the latter's cultural practices and beliefs.
- AGEISM
- Discrimination against elderly
- CHILD MARRIAGES
- The practice of arranging marriages between little children. It is found more frequently in Muslim and Hindu cultures. More exploitative practices involve marrying young girls to old men.
- CHILDREARING
- The way a child is cared for, taught values, get involved in activities (social, economic, educational, etc.) and accorded the rights due to a child.
- CRAFTS
- CULTURAL DIVERSITY
- CULTURAL IDENTITY
- Cultural structure that is progressively built ( norms, customs) by which a populace is recognized.
- CULTURAL STEREOTYPES
- DOWRY
- ETHNIC CONFLICTS
- ETHNICITY
- GAMES AND SPORTS
- Include toys
- GENDER SYSTEMS
- HISTORY
- HUMOR
- INDIGENOUS GROUPS
- Include ethnic, native populations, racial groups
- LANGUAGE
- Refers to the analysis of symbols, social function and culture of the language
- MALE BIAS
- Refers to bias for male fetuses, glorification of male anatomy, e.g., adoration of the penis.
- MYTHS
- Fables, fiction existing models of social institutions pertaining to a group. Includes mythology.
- POLYGAMY
- SOCIAL CLASSES
- SYMBOLS
- TABOOS
- TRADITIONS
- VALUE SYSTEMS
[ DEM ] Demography
- DEMOGRAPHY
- Includes demographic indicators and demographic situation such as infant mortality, morbidity, marriage and others
- EXILE
- Use Refugees
- FERTILITY
- The abundance or rapidity in bearing offsprings. It also refers to the birthrate of a population, fertility rate and fertility behavior. Use for infertility.
- HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
- IMMIGRANTS
- INFANT MORTALITY
- Proportion of death in minors under one year of age over live infants in a time and determined place. Includes causes, problems, etc.
- INTERNAL MIGRATION
- Refers to migration within national boundaries
- INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
- Refers to migration outside national frontiers
- MATERNAL MORTALITY
- MORBIDITY
- MORTALITY
- Proportionate number of deaths in a population within a determined time, includes all causes of death.
- NUPTIALITY
- Number of marriages proportionate to a determined time and place.
- POPULATION
- REFUGEES
- Population that abandons their own normal residency for political reasons and other reasons.
[ DEV ] Development
- AGENDA 21
- Global action plan for the 21st century adopted during the UNCED or Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. Agenda 21 emphasizes the goals of sustainable and equitable development.
- CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- Also includes conflict management
- COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
- Includes Government Organization-Non-Government Organization partnership
- DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
- Includes International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank(WB), Asian Development Bank(ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), etc.
- DEVELOPMENT DEBATES
- Includes development strategies
- DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS
- DEVELOPMENT PLANS AND PROJECTS
- Includes development strategies
- FOOD SECURITY
- FOREIGN AID
- Includes overseas development assistance (ODA)
- FUNDERS
- HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
- HUMAN SETTLEMENT
- Includes HABITAT II
- INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
- Includes conventions, declarations, international pacts and recommendations. UNESCO uses similar international instruments.
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS
- PROGRAM AND PROJECT EVALUATIONS
- Techniques as it relates to measurement, appraisals, qualifications, etc.
- PROJECT ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
- Used for administration of project tasks including accounting, financing and management.
- SOCIAL CHANGE
- STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS
- Refers to World Bank prescriptions to the South, i.e. trade liberalization, currency devaluation, reduction of public expenditures, increased taxation, dismantling of import controls and subsidiaries to domestic exports. Also known as SAPs.
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (from Our Common Future - The Brundtland Commission Report, 1987).
- THIRD WORLD
- TRADE AGREEMENTS
- Includes General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), tariff trade
- UN CONFERENCE ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
- Also known as HABITAT II
- UN DECADE FOR WOMEN
- Covers the period 1975-1985
- UN WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
- UN WORLD FOOD SECURITY SUMMIT
- UN WORLD SUMMIT ON SOCIAL DEVELPOMENT
- URBANIZATION
- WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT
- Includes Women in Development(WID), Women and Development(WAD), Gender and Development(GAD) issues
[ ECO ] Economy & Work
- ALTERNATIVE ECONOMICS
- Includes framework/model, women's proposals, framework building
- ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION
- Also known as APEC
- AUTOMATION
- Includes computerization and mechanization of work in industry, agriculture, and at home
- CHILD CARE
- CHILD LABOR
- CHILDCARE LEAVE
- A law or policy which grants working parents (often mothers) a period of leave from work to take care of a child or children. Includes maternity and paternity leaves.
- CLOTHING INDUSTRY
- Includes garments and textile industry
- CONSUMER EDUCATION
- Includes information, campaigns and consumer awareness
- CONSUMER MOVEMENTS
- CONSUMER ORGANIZATIONS
- CONSUMER PROTECTION
- Includes consumer rights, consumer lobbying
- CONSUMERS
- CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
- Includes consumption behavior
- COOPERATIVES
- Refers to cooperatives and includes small socio-economic projects
- COSMETICS INDUSTRY
- CREDIT
- Refers to access to credit, credit policies and credit system
- DOMESTIC HELPER
- Used for household maids and helpers
- DOMESTIC WORK
- DOUBLE BURDEN
- ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
- ECONOMIC CRISIS
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Used for modernization. Includes technology, human settlement.
- ECONOMIC POLICY
- ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
- The economic organization of a nation based on a model and its translation to economic projects.
- ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY
- EMPLOYMENT
- Also includes unemployment
- ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
- Economic analysis where environment is a central theme/issue. Includes subjects like Bio-economics, life economics.
- EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
- EQUAL PAY
- EVERYDAY LIFE
- Includes personal accounts that is more exposition
- EXPLOITATION OF LABOR
- Includes child labor, bonded labor, forced labor and slavery
- FEMINIZATION OF LABOR
- The growing number of women in the labor force and its implications on the lives of women.
- FOREIGN DEBT
- Used for external debt
- GLOBALIZATION
- HANDICRAFTS
- Technical and traditional products that unite practical preoccupations with aesthetics. In many cases, the commercialization of these products are forms of livelihood.
- HOME-BASED WORKERS
- HOUSING
- INCOME GENERATING PROJECTS
- Popular organizations that generate income.
- INDUSTRIAL ESTATES
- Includes free trade zones, industrial parks such as CALABARZON, and other industrial sites
- INDUSTRIALIZATION
- Includes mechanization
- INFORMAL SECTOR
- Used for underground economy. Includes sidewalk vendors, food stall operators, hawkers and others.
- LABOR DISCRIMINATION
- Discrimination in access to employment and promotion to managerial positions due to sex or gender.
- LABOR FORCE
- LEISURE TIME
- Includes recreation
- LIVING CONDITIONS
- Qualitative terms used to describe socio-economic and environmental context.
- MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
- MARKETING PRACTICES
- Includes promotional gimmicks, contests, and others
- MIGRANT WORKERS
- Used for overseas contract workers
- MINIMUM STANDARD OF LIVING
- Includes quality of life
- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
- Health problems related to employment or activities geared towards a person's development.
- PAID HOUSEWORK
- Giving monetary value to housework that is often unrecognized or unpaid.
- PART-TIME WORKERS
- Used for seasonal workers and temporary workers
- PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
- Used for drug industry
- POVERTY
- PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
- RESOURCE CONTROL
- Refers to ownership, management, stewardship of natural resources
- SERVICE SECTOR
- Includes commerce, hotel industry, maintenance and reports, banking sector, insurance, tourism, artistic industry and employees of the public and private sector. The actions, organizations and the actors involved.
- SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOR
- SMALL ENTERPRISES
- SOCIAL SECURITY
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC
- Includes socio-economic conditions, economic situationers and status
- STRIKES
- STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS
- Refers to World Bank prescriptions to the South, i.e. trade liberalization, currency devaluation, reduction of public expenditures, increased taxation, dismantling of import controls and subsidiaries to domestic exports. Also known as SAPs.
- SUBCONTRACTING
- Employment or work by stages as used by large corporations; intermediate industries.
- TAXES
- TOURISM
- TRADE
- TRADE LIBERALIZATION
- TRADE UNIONS
- TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
- Also known as TNCs. Includes Multinational Corporations or MNCs
- UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
- Includes union busting, unpaid overtime work, and other violation of labor rights
- VOLUNTARY WORK
- Employment not compensated and rendered with a sense of service.
- WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- Wage discrimination between men and women for the same work or task.
- WAGES
- Used for income
- WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
- Women who perform directive duties in public or private businesses as owners and non-owners.
- WOMEN HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS
- Women who assume the principal role as providers for the material needs of the family.
- WOMEN MANAGERS
- Used for executive women
- WOMEN WORKERS
- Workers salaried in industry or farms. It includes persons employed in domestic service, informal sector and professions.
- WOMEN'S ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION
- WOMEN'S ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE
- WORK AT HOME
- WORKDAY
- Time dedicated to an activity with compensation whether full-time, part-time, or hourly.
- WORKING CONDITIONS
- Physical, social, administrative and psycho-social factors that affect the work environment.
[ EDU ] Education
- ACCESS TO EDUCATION
- ADULT EDUCATION
- Also refers to continuing education
- CO-EDUCATION
- COMMUNITY EDUCATION
- CURRICULUM
- DAY CARE CENTERS
- EDUCATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
- EDUCATIONAL POLICY
- ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
- Use Primary Education
- ENROLMENT
- FURTHER EDUCATION
- Postgraduate studies at the professional level or technical courses towards a specialization. Masters, doctoral degrees, etc.
- HEALTH EDUCATION
- Education which may include techniques and forms that promotes health.
- HEALTH PROMOTION
- Use Health Education
- HIGH SCHOOL
- Use Secondary Education
- HIGHER EDUCATION
- University/College education and equivalent
- ILLITERACY
- Use Literacy
- LEARNING DISABILITIES
- LITERACY
- Includes actions, actors and educators, as well as levels of literacy
- PEER EDUCATION
- Education involves adolescence
- POPULAR EDUCATION
- Applicable methods in any area of basic methods
- PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
- Use Pre-School Education
- PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
- Includes young children, educators, pupils, systems and methods
- PRIMARY EDUCATION
- SECONDARY EDUCATION
- SEX EDUCATION
- SOCIALIZATION
- STUDENT MOVEMENTS
- TEACHERS
- TEACHING AIDS
- Communication media of image and sound for the masses.
- TECHNICAL EDUCATION
- TRAINING
- TRAINING PROGRAMS
- WOMEN'S STUDIES
- A program of studies oriented to gender theme and disseminated through upper education or equivalent.
[ ENV ] Environment
- AGENDA 21
- Global action plan for the 21st century adopted during the UNCED or Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. Agenda 21 emphasizes the goals of sustainable and equitable development.
- BIODIVERSITY
- Same as Vandana Shiva's definition
- ECOFEMINISM
- ENVIRONMENT
- Used for ecology. Includes habitats, geographical, social and ecological environment.
- ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
- The destruction of the environment through logging, exploitation of natural resources
- ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
- ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
- GLOBAL WARMING
- NATURAL CALAMITIES
- NATURAL RESOURCES
- NUCLEAR TESTING
- POLLUTION
- RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMPING
- The unsafe disposal of radioactive and nuclear wastes into the environment, with severe implications on the environment and the health of its inhabitants. Usually urban to rural or First World to Third World.
- REFORESTATION
- RESOURCE SCARCITY
- WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Used for waste disposal and waste management
- WASTELANDS DEVELOPMENT
- Efforts at reclaiming vast tracts of agricultural or industrial lands that lay idle because they are infertile or misused.
[ FAM ] Family
- ADOPTION
- CHILD CARE
- CHILDLESS COUPLES
- The absence of a child in a couple's union. May refer to issues on reproductive technology and family planning.
- COMMON LAW MARRIAGE
- Use Consensual Union
- CONSENSUAL UNION
- A union where a couple lives together without marriage.
- COUPLE
- DIVORCE
- ELDERLY CARE
- The care of elderly people aged 60 and above, usually by women.
- EXTENDED FAMILY
- Includes kin who are not part of the nuclear family, but who live in the same household.
- FAMILY
- Refers to the institution of the family and its values and breakdown
- FAMILY LEGISLATION
- Laws related to the family, married life, children, parenthood, obligations, rights and duties.
- FAMILY LIFE
- FATHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
- FILIATION
- The matter of making children part of the family whether legitimate, illegitimate, natural or adopted.
- HOUSEHOLD UNIT
- The composition of people, oftentimes the family, within the house. It is made a point of reference for studying power structures created within. In economy, the members' roles in productivity.
- LESBIAN COUPLE
- Lesbian women in a relationship. May connote arrangements on living together and child rearing.
- MARRIAGE
- A union vested upon by rite or law
- MARRIAGE ANNULMENT
- Declaration of marriage as invalid so that legally, it is considered to have never existed.
- MARRIED WOMEN
- Connotes issues relevant to women's marital status
- MIXED MARRIAGE
- Refers to the marriage between two people of different races. Use for miscenegation.
- MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
- MOTHERHOOD
- NUCLEAR FAMILY
- NUPTIALITY
- Number of marriages proportionate to a determined time and place.
- PARENTHOOD
- POLYGAMY
- SEPARATION
- To be considered as the physical separation of a marriage or couple
- SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY
- WIDOWHOOD
- State of a woman whose partner has passed away and there has been no subsequent nuptials and related terms.
- WOMEN HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS
- Women who assume the principal role as providers for the material needs of the family.
[ HEA ] Health
- ACCIDENTS
- AIDS/HIV
- Used for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- ALCOHOLISM
- Used for alcohol addiction
- ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
- BOTTLEFEEDING
- Nutrition with industrially produced milk
- BREAST PROBLEMS
- Includes various types of breast diseases like mastalgia, cysts, fibroadenoma, nipple discharges, nipple inversion, mastitis, breast cancer, and mastectomy
- CANCER
- CERVICAL CANCER
- COMMUNITY HEALTH
- Exercise in medicine beyond the principal establishments and recognized as a way of utilizing scarce, available resources. A new form to undertake the problem of health that is critical of institutional medicine and accomplish its outreach to those who do not have other responsibilities.
- DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PERSONS
- Used for Disabled Persons. Includes physical and mental health impediments.
- DISEASES
- DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
- DRUG ADDICTION
- DRUGS
- Stupefacient. Used with or without medical reason. Positions addressing the problem, related actions, consumption and commercialization.
- EATING DISORDERS
- Includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia
- EUTHANASIA
- GYNECOLOGY
- HEALTH CONDITIONS
- Terms used to describe health conditions of a country or region or particular sector of the population.
- HEALTH EDUCATION
- Education which may include techniques and forms that promotes health.
- HEALTH HAZARDS
- Includes use of chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, objects, and activities that are detrimental to one's health
- HEALTH INDICATORS
- To be used when addressing the construction of indicators or theoretical aspects over the same and/or when by statistics or graphics describing the health situation of a country, region or group of people, covering numerous aspects of variables, e.g. health services, family planning, abortion, maternal morbidity, etc.
- HEALTH POLICY
- Refers to public health, methods in which countries organize services, personnel and infrastructure in turn to prevention and curing.
- HEALTH SERVICES
- HERBS
- Use Medicinal Plants
- HOLISTIC HEALTH
- HYGIENE
- IMMUNIZATION
- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
- MEDICAL ADVICE
- Use Doctor-Patient Relationship
- MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
- MEDICINAL PLANTS
- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
- Health problems related to employment or activities geared towards a person's development.
- PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
- Actions oriented to prevent illnesses, includes works of public service.
- PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
- Basic services that focus on preventive and curative practices. Includes the actions and actors.
- RURAL HEALTH CARE
- SELF-HELP GROUPS
- Taking charge of one's own health concerns and challenging the social control of women's sexuality and reproduction through techniques such as self-examination and information-sharing (Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones. Kramarae and Treichler, eds.)
- SEX HORMONES
- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
- Includes all diseases contracted (not "contacted") through sexual relations, except for AIDS which is addressed in a separate descriptor.
- SMOKING
- STUPEFACIENT
- Use Drugs
- TRADITIONAL HEALERS
- Persons, generally women, who practice medicine without being medical doctors and base their practice in their knowledge of traditional medicine.
- TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
- Arts and sciences for treating and preventing illnesses based on popular knowledge, ancestral practice of products and cultural inheritance of villages.
- URINARY TRACT INFECTION
- Also known as U.T.I.
- VAGINAL INFECTIONS
- WESTERN MEDICINE
- WOMEN DOCTORS
- WOMEN'S DISEASES
- Broader concepts than gynecological illnesses.
[ HUM ] Human Rights
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
- CLASS DISCRIMINATION
- Distinctions based on social class
- DEVELOPMENT AGGRESSION
- EDUCATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
- FREEDOM
- Use Human Rights
- GIRL-CHILD
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- Refers to those proclaimed in the universal declaration and in the subsequent conventions and those evolving of the third generation in which the latter have not been recognized as of yet.
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
- Includes conventions, declarations, international pacts and recommendations. UNESCO uses similar international instruments.
- POLITICAL PRISONERS
- POPULATION CONTROL
- PROSTITUTION
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
- Use Racism
- RACISM
- Used for racial discrimination and includes apartheid
- REFUGEES
- Population that abandons their own normal residency for political reasons and other reasons.
- REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
- The power to freely decide to bear children. Refers to the politics, law, etc.
- SEXISM
- Used for discrimination against women. Makes reference to the general concept of discrimination that is based on gender or sex.
- TORTURE
- Refers to physical or psychological pressure
- WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- Wage discrimination between men and women for the same work or task.
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS
[ IDE ] Ideologies
- ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS
- FEMINISM
- Theoretical aspects referring to the current ideology in politics, social and cultural.
- FEMINISTS
- IDEOLOGIES
- Representation of the imaginary relation of individuals with realistic existing conditions.
- LIBERAL FEMINISM
- LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- New interpretation of the new evangelical message from the reality of Latin American towns (Catholic Church).
- MATRIARCHY
- Social organization in which the authority is exercised by the woman head of household and is extended to kin.
- PATRIARCHY
- Social organization in which the authority is exercised by the man-head of household - it extends to distant kin. In such a system the women are discriminated and relegated to second level.
- PHILOSOPHY
- RADICAL FEMINISM
- SOCIALIST FEMINISM
[ LAW ] Law
- ADOPTION
- ADULTERY
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- Social policy of positive discrimination, affirmative action. Active measures for correcting the effects of the past discrimination to eliminate actual discrimination and to promote equality.
- CITIZENSHIP
- CIVIL LAW
- CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- CRIMINAL LAW
- Includes the rights of the accused
- FAMILY LEGISLATION
- Laws related to the family, married life, children, parenthood, obligations, rights and duties.
- INTERNATIONAL LAW
- ISLAMIC LAW
- LABOR LEGISLATION
- Laws that regulate labor activities and its participants. Includes labor rights.
- LEGAL DISCRIMINATION
- LEGISLATION
- Groups of law by which a state governs: to be used in rhe most widely used manner and if no material can be specified (omit "or") it is treated as general.
- LEGISLATIVE BILL
- MARITAL LAW
- PRISONS
- Includes common prisoners, penitentiary system, etc.
- SOCIAL SECURITY
- WOMEN LAWYERS
- WOMEN'S PRISONS
- Use Prisons
- WOMEN'S TRIBUNALS
[ LIF ] Life Cycles
- ADOLESCENCE
- Youth between 12 and 18 years of age (varies according to customs and other reasons). Refers to the stage in life.
- ADULTHOOD
- Cycle of life as contained between youth and the elderly.
- CHILDHOOD
- Use Children
- CHILDREN
- Life cycle from age 0 to 12 of age; infancy: childhood.
- DEATH
- GENERATION GAP
- Refers to inter-generational conflict
- MENOPAUSE
- The final cycle of menstruation which includes the symptoms, effects, problems, treatments related to this period in a woman's life
- MENSTRUATION
- MID-LIFE
- OLD AGE
- Cycle of life that goes from age 65 or up.
- WIDOWHOOD
- State of a woman whose partner has passed away and there has been no subsequent nuptials and related terms.
- YOUNG PEOPLE
- Use Youth
- YOUNG WOMEN
- To be used only when distinguishing within youth.
- YOUTH
- Cycle of life as contained between childhood and adult (includes persons between 15 and 24 years of age, ONU).
[ LIT ] Literature & Arts
- AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
- CARTOONS
- CINEMA
- Use Performing Arts
- DANCE
- Use Performing Arts
- FICTION
- FOLK ART
- GAY WRITINGS
- HANDICRAFTS
- Technical and traditional products that unite practical preoccupations with aesthetics. In many cases, the commercialization of these products are forms of livelihood.
- JOURNALS
- LESBIAN WRITINGS
- LIFE STORIES
- Includes autobiographies, personal accounts
- LITERATURE
- Used in the larger context. Includes literary analysis, literary works, literary compositions, literary critiques, forms and classes of writers and oral literature like storytelling.
- MUSIC
- PAINTING
- Use Visual Arts
- PERFORMING ARTS
- Includes films, dance, theater, puppets and mime
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- Use Visual Arts
- POETRY
- PUPPETS
- Use Performing Arts
- SCIENCE FICTION
- SCULPTURE
- Use Visual Arts
- VISUAL ARTS
- Includes photography, painting and sculpture
- WOMEN ARTISTS
- WOMEN'S IMAGE
- Women as subjects of arts
[ MHE ] Mental Health
- COUNSELING
- DEPRESSION
- FEELINGS
- Includes a variety of human sentiments (love, hate, illusions, joy, anger, sorrow, etc.)
- FRIGIDITY
- IMPOTENCE
- INSANITY
- MENTAL HEALTH
- OEDIPUS COMPLEX
- PHOBIA
- PSYCHOANALYSIS
- PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
- PSYCHOLOGY
- SELF-HELP GROUPS
- Taking charge of one's own health concerns and challenging the social control of women's sexuality and reproduction through techniques such as self-examination and information-sharing (Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones. Kramarae and Treichler, eds.)
- STRESS MANAGEMENT
- THERAPY
- Psychological treatment of two or more people
- WORKAHOLICS
[ NUT ] Nutrition & Food
- BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Encompasses all aspects of the incorporation of new and old technologies as related to biology as well as its study and management.
- DIETS
- Use Food Customs
- FAMINE
- FOOD CUSTOMS
- Refers to the nutritional habits and health regimens of a person or social group
- FOOD PROCESSING
- FOOD RESOURCES
- NUTRITION
- Includes nutritional state, problems, characteristics, malnutrition
- ORGANIC FOOD
- VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS
[ PEA ] Peace & Disarmament
- ARMAMENT
- CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- Also includes conflict management
- DISARMAMENT
- MILITARISM
- Tendency of military institutions to extend their participation in the civil government of an organization; especially the weights of the military in attitudes and social systems.
- NONVIOLENCE
- Understood as an action method or social mobilization. Includes theoretical elaboration. Also includes pacifism and active non-violence
- NUCLEAR ENERGY
- PEACE
- PEACE MOVEMENTS
- POST-WAR REHABILITATION & REPARATION
- SOCIAL CONFLICTS
- WAR
- Includes national armed conflicts at the national, international, and local level, its causes and consequences
- WAR SURVIVORS
- WOMEN IN WAR
[ POL ] Politics & Government
- AUTHORITARIANISM
- A political system in which the governors are not elected by the governees, there is no change in power, characterized by limited pluralistic politics, lacking political mobilization and when power is concentrated in one leader or a limited group.
- CAPITALISM
- CITIZENSHIP
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- COLONIALISM
- DEMOCRACY
- Refers to a group of ideals and political systems. A regime of governors elected by the people they govern.
- DICTATORSHIP
- Use Authoritarianism
- ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
- Trends and tendencies in voting and electoral behavior
- GOVERNMENT POLICY
- INTER-STATE CONFLICTS
- Conflict between two nation-states
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Terms used to refer to decentralized administration of government such as municipalities, provinces, regions, etc.
- MILITARISM
- Tendency of military institutions to extend their participation in the civil government of an organization; especially the weights of the military in attitudes and social systems.
- POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
- Participation in political parties, electoral processes, instance of local power and other organisms of. power
- POLITICAL PARTIES
- POLITICAL PRISONERS
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Refers to political discipline
- POLITICAL SYSTEMS
- Forms in which social actors organize and relate in order to rise to positions of power and governance.
- POWER
- i.e. hegemonic
- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- Includes the management apparatus of the state and its actors (administration, bureaucracy, organization, decision, communication, authority, public service)
- PUBLIC OFFICIALS
- Terms used to refer to legal, political and economic functions that are performed by central and local governments, parliaments, judicial powers and other leagues of public administration.
- PUBLIC SERVICES
- Use Public Administration
- REPRESSION
- An act or group of acts, ordinarily used by powers that be, to contain, deter or punish with violence political or social acts (Dictionary RAE). Includes physical and psychological repression.
- REVOLUTION
- SOCIAL POLICY
- SOCIALISM
- STATE
- The political body of a nation
- WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT
- Ministry/Department/Bureau. Governmental offices dedicated to women's affairs, also called national mechanisms.
- WOMEN IN MILITARY
- WOMEN IN POLITICS
- WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
[ REL ] Religion & Spirituality
- ASTROLOGY
- BIBLICAL STORIES
- BUDDHISM
- CASTES
- CATHOLIC CHURCH
- Includes the structure, institution, hierarchy, membership doctrines, rites, worship
- CELIBACY
- CHRISTIANITY
- CHURCHES
- CONFUCIANISM
- CULTS
- FEMINIST THEOLOGIANS
- FUNDAMENTALISM
- Refers to Fundamentalism as a movement
- GODDESS WORSHIP
- HINDUISM
- ISLAM
- MARIANISM
- Worship of the Virgin Mary; Catholic Church
- PAGAN RELIGIONS
- PRAYERS
- PRIESTESSES
- RELIGION
- RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS
- RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION
- RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
- RELIGIOUS LEADERS
- RELIGIOUS WOMEN
- Persons who are devoted to a religious life and are part of a religious institution.
- SPIRITUALITY
- i.e. spiritual growth
- THEOLOGY
- WITCHCRAFT
- WOMEN IN ISLAM
- WOMEN IN THE BIBLE
- i.e., Christian Bible
[ REP ] Reproductive Health
- ABORTION
- Includes actions, technologies
- ABORTION TECHNIQUES
- Use Abortion
- ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
- Always refers to human beings as new reproductive technology.
- BARRIER CONTRACEPTIVES
- Includes condoms, diaphragm, cap, intrauterine device
- BIRTHING TECHNIQUES
- Use Childbirth
- BREAST FEEDING
- CHILDBIRTH
- CONTRACEPTIVES, GENERAL
- Includes all contraceptive methods or when there are no specifics on a particular one
- DIETHYLSTILBESTROL
- Use Hormonal Contraceptives. Also known as D.E.S.
- EUGENICS
- Application of genetic biological laws as it relates to the perfecting of the human race.
- FAMILY PLANNING
- Conscious control of fertility by the use of mechanisms to limit births. Used for Responsible Parenthood.
- FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
- Includes clitoridectomy, infibulation and others. Also called female circumcision.
- FEMININE HYGIENE
- FERTILITY
- The abundance or rapidity in bearing offsprings. It also refers to the birthrate of a population, fertility rate and fertility behavior. Use for infertility.
- FRIGIDITY
- HORMONAL CONTRACEPTIVES
- Includes Dalkon shields, pills, injectables and implants like Norplant, Diethylstilbestrol (D.E.S.)
- HYSTERECTOMY
- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
- MATERNAL MORTALITY
- MENOPAUSE
- The final cycle of menstruation which includes the symptoms, effects, problems, treatments related to this period in a woman's life
- MENSTRUATION
- MENSTRUATION DISORDERS
- Use Menstruation
- MIDWIVES
- Women with traditional medical knowledge who attend to birthing
- NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL
- Includes Ogino, vaginal mucus (Billings) method, etc.
- NATURAL CHILDBIRTH
- PELVIC EXAMINATION
- Disease prevention and control or pregnancy-related medical procedure.
- POPULATION RESEARCH
- POSITION ON ABORTION
- PREGNANCY
- PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
- Use Menstruation
- REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
- Refers to human reproduction activities
- REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
- The power to freely decide to bear children. Refers to the politics, law, etc.
- REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
- Manufactured techniques to overcome problems in human reproduction.
- REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS
- RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD
- Use Family Planning
- SELF-EXAM
- Self examinations as practiced by women, knowledge of her own body and preventives.
- SEX HORMONES
- STERILITY
- Conditions of male sterility, includes causes, problems, etc.
- STERILIZATION
- Birth control method whether feminine or masculine.
- TEENAGE PREGNANCY
- UNPLANNED PREGNANCY
- VASECTOMY
[ SCI ] Science & Technology
- ADEQUATE TECHNOLOGIES
- Use Appropriate Technologies
- APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES
- Making use of technology with minimum resources and basic materials; includes alternative to technology.
- ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
- Always refers to human beings as new reproductive technology.
- AUTOMATION
- Includes computerization and mechanization of work in industry, agriculture, and at home
- BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Encompasses all aspects of the incorporation of new and old technologies as related to biology as well as its study and management.
- COMPUTERS
- EUGENICS
- Application of genetic biological laws as it relates to the perfecting of the human race.
- GENETIC ENGINEERING
- Use Biotechnology
- IN VITRO FERTILIZATION
- New reproductive technology e.g., test tube babies
- INVENTIONS
- NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
- NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
- Manufactured techniques to overcome problems in human reproduction.
- NUCLEAR ENERGY
- SCIENCE
- Knowledge, scientific works (when one science is not specified in particular)
- SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
- Activities to understand and explain phenomena, supposed convergence of theory and investigation. Investigations in natural sciences.
- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
- WOMEN SCIENTISTS
- Include inventors
[ SEX ] Women's Sexuality & Identity
- CELIBACY
- CHASTITY
- CIRCUMCISION
- COITUS
- Use Sexual Behavior
- EROTICISM
- EVERYDAY LIFE
- Includes personal accounts that is more exposition
- FEMININE IDENTITY
- Use Women's Identity
- FRIGIDITY
- GENDER SYSTEMS
- HOMOSEXUALITY
- Includes homophobia
- IMPOTENCE
- LESBIANS
- Used for Lesbianism
- MASTURBATION
- MOTHERHOOD
- PRE-MARITAL SEX
- PUBLIC SPHERE/PRIVATE SPHERE
- Used specifically to distinguish analysis or explanation of the realities of women, related to role distinctions. Term also used as home/street by Ana Pizaro.
- RELATIONSHIPS
- Includes sexual, friendships, women as social beings
- SADO-MASOCHISM
- SELF-DEVELOPMENT
- Includes activities that refer to personal growth, integral development and self-esteem
- SELF-ESTEEM
- Use Self-Development
- SEX EDUCATION
- SEX ROLES
- Roles assigned to persons and social institutions by virtue of their sex (physiologic in nature). See also Culture.
- SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
- Refers to sexual activity
- SEXUAL POLITICS
- Refers to the power dynamics between the sexes
- SEXUALITY
- Includes sexual awakening and adolescent sexuality
- SINGLES
- STEREOTYPES
- Includes beauty contests, pageants
- UNMARRIED MOTHERS
- VIRGINITY
- WOMAN'S BODY
- WOMEN'S DEPENDENCE
- The psychological dependence of the woman. Makes reference to a duality of dependency autonomy in group institutions and interpersonal relations.
- WOMEN'S IDENTITY
- An identity recognized as feminine.
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS
- WOMEN'S STATUS
- Refers to conditions/situations of women
[ SOC ] Social Actors & Political Movements
- ADOLESCENTS
- Youth between 12 and 18 years of age (varies according to customs and other reasons). Refers to the persons.
- ADULTS
- Cycle of life as contained between youth and the elderly.
- ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS
- COMMUNITY CENTERS
- Community based organizations for grassroots activities.
- COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
- Use Social Movements
- CONGRESSES
- FEMINIST MOVEMENT
- International movement of women, with North American and European counterparts and followers worldwide.
- FUNDAMENTALISM
- Refers to Fundamentalism as a movement
- GAY LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
- HOUSEWIVES
- Women in charge of their homes and families without compensatory activities.
- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
- Relates to March 8
- LEADERSHIP
- An entity responsible for directing and conducting an activity that can influence two or more people.
- LESBIAN MOVEMENTS
- LOWER CLASS
- Refers to socio-economic status
- MIDDLE CLASS
- Refers to socio-economic status
- MUSLIM WOMEN
- NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Also NGOs
- POPULAR MOVEMENTS
- Use Social Movements
- PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
- RURAL WOMEN
- Includes farm workers and women working in agriculture
- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- Community movements. Includes popular resistance.
- STRIKES
- STUDENT MOVEMENTS
- SUBSISTENCE ORGANIZATIONS
- Organizations generally popular created under an economic solidarity. Includes shared land, common kettles, popular eateries, joint purchasing, etc.
- TRADE UNIONS
- UPPER CLASS
- Refers to socio-economic status
- URBAN POOR WOMEN
- WOMEN ARTISTS
- WOMEN HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS
- Women who assume the principal role as providers for the material needs of the family.
- WOMEN INTELLECTUALS
- WOMEN POLITICAL ACTIVISTS
- WOMEN SCIENTISTS
- Include inventors
- WOMEN STRUGGLES
- Includes individual or collective action, passive or active resistance against patriarchy, oppressive regimes, etc.
- WOMEN WORKERS
- Workers salaried in industry or farms. It includes persons employed in domestic service, informal sector and professions.
- WOMEN'S DEMANDS
- Demands of women oriented to improve their social, political, economic and cultural conditions.
- WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS
- Encompasses all feminine movements regardless of size and scope.
- WOMEN'S NETWORKS
- WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS
- Social organizations where the membership is women: feminine organizations.
- WORKERS' MOVEMENTS
- YOUNG WOMEN
- To be used only when distinguishing within youth.
- YOUTH
- Cycle of life as contained between childhood and adult (includes persons between 15 and 24 years of age, ONU).
[ VAW ] Violence Against Women
- BATTERED WOMEN
- COMFORT WOMEN
- CYCLE OF VIOLENCE
- It refers to the continuing and successive phase of domestic violence which occurs in the abusive relationship of the man towards the woman.
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Violence exercised in the home against other family members (especially women, elderly and children).
- DOWRY MURDER
- FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
- Includes clitoridectomy, infibulation and others. Also called female circumcision.
- FEMINICIDE
- INCEST
- LAPIDATION
- Death by stoning.
- MAIL-ORDER BRIDES
- MALE AGGRESSOR
- MISOGYNY
- PHYSICAL ABUSE
- Use Battered Women
- PORNOGRAPHY
- PROSTITUTION
- PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
- It is also labeled as emotional abuse. It may encompass all types of violence (domestic, institutional, pornography, etc.)
- RAPE
- SADO-MASOCHISM
- SELF-DEFENCE
- SELF-HELP GROUPS
- Taking charge of one's own health concerns and challenging the social control of women's sexuality and reproduction through techniques such as self-examination and information-sharing (Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones. Kramarae and Treichler, eds.)
- SEX SEPARATION
- Refers to sex determination, i.e., bias to male fetuses in China, India
- SEX TOURISM
- SEXUAL ASSAULT
- Use Sexual Violence
- SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- All types of unwanted advances, pressures and sexual harassment, be it physical or verbal.
- SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
- Harassment that women suffer in work related activities, generally by a superior.
- SEXUAL SLAVERY
- SEXUAL VIOLENCE
- Includes rape
- TORTURE
- Refers to physical or psychological pressure
- TRAFFIC IN WOMEN
- VIOLENCE IN THE HEALTH SERVICE
- To be understood in those forms of abusive treatment in health for women within her social dimension. Related aspects with forced family planning, unnecessary sterilization and caesarians.
- WOMEN'S POLICE STATION
- Police stations where women can initiate complaints of violence towards them.
- WOMEN'S SHELTERS
[ WIS ] Women in Islam
- MUSLIM WOMEN
- WOMEN AND THE QUR'AN
- WOMEN AND THE SHA'RIA LAW
