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With regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women, the Council reviews the work of the Commission on the Status of Women and takes action as necessary, and integrates gender equality considerations in other discussions. (unwomen.org)
On March 15, CESR will be joining AWID and GATJ for a side event hosted by the government of Ecuador on Women's Economic Empowerment Through Tax Justice . (cesr.org)
The Government of Ecuador is hosting an invitation-only official side event for government delegates - "Women's economic empowerment through tax justice" - on Wednesday 15 March, at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, in collaboration with CESR and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. (cesr.org)
Ms. Vogelstein writes frequently on some of the most important issues facing women globally, from economic empowerment to child marriage. (csis.org)
Highlighting the disproportionate and devastating socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls globally, The UN chief António Guterres called on Monday for a major push to prevent "years, even generations" worth of progress on women's empowerment, from being lost to the pandemic. (unwomen.org)
While we are trying to unpack what a pandemic has caused, I think it is important for us to once again understand the invisible barriers that women are facing for their economic empowerment," she said. (unwomen.org)
Under our "Women and Youth Empowerment" Intervention, Farah Social Foundation in collaboration with Food Heritage Foundation and Union of Progressive Women conducted a 3 day training for women in Chouf district to enhance their mouneh production skills. (farahsocialfoundation.com)
Canada's development investments in economic growth in Jordan focus on enhancing women's economic empowerment through skills development and entrepreneurship, in order to support women to be competitive in the labour market and to establish and sustain businesses. (gc.ca)

Advancing gender equality, integrating climate change risk assessment and adaptation as well as accelerating gender and social norms change is critical to implementation in this extension phase of Water for Women. (un.org)
By utilizing a conceptual framework that identifies five mechanisms linking the two, namely access to credit and finance, additional income, increased investments, improved intrahousehold bargaining and improved social norms, the research reveals that property/land ownership enhances women's involvement in employment and entrepreneurship. (unescwa.org)
Instead the reformist discourse recasts the amorous image of the woman in the Vallabhacharya tradition into virtuous, duty-abiding wife whose sexuality continues to be controlled by patriarchal familial norms. (epw.in)

For example, raising the federal minimum wage to $12 by 2020 would boost wages for one-fourth of the workforce, or 35 million working people-56 percent of whom are women. (epi.org)
Women have experienced historic job losses since March 2020. (canadianwomen.org)
March 2020: Women account for 63% of the 1 million jobs lost and 70% of losses by workers aged 25 to 54 (Statistics Canada). (canadianwomen.org)
April 2020: 1 in 10 women reports being very or extremely concerned about the possibility of violence in the home. (canadianwomen.org)
May 2020: University-educated immigrant women experience the largest unemployment rates, 7.3 percentage points higher than previous year (Statistics Canada). (canadianwomen.org)
August 2020: 63% of people in Canada are concerned about women facing more exposure to COVID-19 due to work in high-risk service and care industries (Canadian Women's Foundation). (canadianwomen.org)
September 2020: 71% of Canadian women report feeling more anxious, depressed, isolated, overworked or ill because of increased unpaid care work caused by COVID-19 (Oxfam). (canadianwomen.org)
December 2020: The unemployment rate for women of colour rises to 10.5% compared with 6.2% for white women (Statistics Canada). (canadianwomen.org)

The next day, on March 16 CESR's Kate Donald will speak at a special Tax Justice for Women's Rights Forum co-convened by CESR and its partners in the women's rights, tax justice and development fields to challenge the explicit and implicit biases against women embedded in tax policies, and to demonstrate the urgency of moving to more just tax alternatives which fulfil women's human rights. (cesr.org)
This UNCSW parallel event is jointly hosted by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Global Unions, Association for Women's Rights in Development, Center for Economic and Social Rights, Oxfam, ActionAid, Tax Justice Network, Christian Aid, and the National Taxpayers Association Kenya. (cesr.org)
The Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) is a 501c3 Human Rights organization, formed in 2001 to address historical race, class, cultural, religious and gender barriers faced by Black women and young women in the rural U. S. South. (srbwi.org)
Social justice starts with educated girls, supporting each other to become independent, influential women, working together with communities to provide equal access to tools and opportunities for all. (camfed.org)
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. (org.in)
NHRWCDC was founded by Ravindra Mishra to establish the Social & National Justice for the welfare of the people. (org.in)
Any Social Institution or Political Party who is ready to accept the Justice and Justfiable Democracy, they can be with us without any hesitation. (org.in)
To establish the Economic, Cultural, Behavioural & Spiritual Justice in Society. (org.in)
Disappointing is their journey to justice, which is often met with systemic shortcomings, which further undermines enjoyment of the rights of women and girls. (lu.se)

In income and employment, women are more likely to be in poverty than men, and women of color are more likely to be in poverty than others. (wikipedia.org)
Women are more likely than men to be in poverty. (wikipedia.org)
More women than men have lived below the poverty line consistently since 1966. (wikipedia.org)
It is estimated that 70% of 1.3 billion population in developing countries living in poverty are women. (europa.eu)
Research has shown that women are more likely to fall into energy poverty as they are the main users and producers of household energy, due to economic, biological/physiological and socio-cultural factors. (europa.eu)
For instance, older women are the most likely to suffer from energy poverty due to a higher life expectancy and lower pensions compared to men. (europa.eu)
In the EU, there is little data available on the impacts of energy poverty on men and women. (europa.eu)
Nonetheless, some statistics exist which show a tendency of women being more affected by energy poverty than men. (europa.eu)
For instance, a study carried out in 2016 in Barcelona showed that 70% of the subsidies granted by the Social Services to fight against energy poverty were granted to women. (europa.eu)
The risk of energy poverty is higher in single-parent families - 80% of them are made up of women. (europa.eu)
The Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative builds on the rich history of Strong Southern Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement as it exposes and combats the barriers of race, class, and power that trap so many rural Black women and their children in ingratiating poverty. (srbwi.org)
Lifting women from poverty through a coop that accesses land and builds a business around food. (srbwi.org)
While increasing the EEA would not cause economic hardship for many, it may have adverse effects on divorced and widowed women who generally are at greater risk of poverty than married women. (bc.edu)
Even before the pandemic, women were more likely to live in poverty: more than 2.4 million women and girls live on a low income in Canada today. (canadianwomen.org)
Those who face many barriers, such as racialized women, women with disabilities, and newcomer women, are even more likely to experience poverty. (canadianwomen.org)

Women have longer life expectancy than men, but the gap is decreasing. (wikipedia.org)
9 But in the 1990s, the pace of the U.S. increase began to slow, and by 1999, the nation's life expectancy had fallen below the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average. (americanprogress.org)

Because low-wage jobs are disproportionately held by women, women are the primary beneficiaries of an agenda to raise wages for low- and moderate-wage workers. (epi.org)
It disproportionately harms women. (canadianwomen.org)
Women are disproportionately affected by both the social and economic costs from all types of dementia, both directly and indirectly, because they provide 70% of care hours for people living with dementia and experience more disability-adjusted life-years and mortality caused by it. (medscape.com)

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the voice of organised civil society in Europe. (europa.eu)
and https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/publications respectively. (europa.eu)
The EESC is active in a wide range of areas, from social affairs to economy, energy and sustainability. (europa.eu)
Here you can find news and information about the EESC's work, including its social media accounts, the EESC Info newsletter, photo galleries and videos. (europa.eu)
The EESC has six sections specialising in specific topics of relevance to the citizens of the European Union, ranging from social to economic affairs, energy, environment, external relations or the internal market. (europa.eu)
The EESC felt that the issue of domestic violence against women should be looked at in greater depth and decided to draw up an own-initiative opinion. (europa.eu)

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by governments on social distancing and mobility restrictions have contributed to boosting the use of digital technology to bridge some of the physical access gaps. (fao.org)

In response to this additional investment, the implementing partners of the Water for Women Fund, are strengthening both targeted and mainstreamed gender, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) strategies that respond to evidence that gendered approaches to WASH can contribute to more effective, sustainable and climate-resilient WASH outcomes. (un.org)
3. Strengthened gender equality and social inclusion in households, communities and institutions in a changing climate. (un.org)
The assumption that English language acquisition leads to social and economic inclusion is not challenged within the settlement English program, and the language learner is seen as linguistically deficient in English, rather than as an emerging bi- or multilingual. (ed.gov)
Moreover, the ways that race, as well as gender, mediate both language learning and social inclusion are never problematised. (ed.gov)
This paper is based on data from a longitudinal ethnography that examines subjectivity in three interactional domains--family, society and work--in order to explore how language, race and gender impact on the post-migration settlement trajectories and sense of social inclusion of women migrants to Australia. (ed.gov)
She previously spent three years at the Roosevelt Institute where she worked as a fellow and program director of Roosevelt's 21st Century Economy and Economic Inclusion programs. (csis.org)
In his remarks, the UN chief recalled the UN's policy brief issued in April, which urged governments to put women and girls - their inclusion, representation, rights, and protection - at the centre of all efforts to tackle and recover from COVID-19. (unwomen.org)

Prior to Joining the Bank in 2016 Nadia worked for five years in the Economic Research and Statistics division of the World Trade Organization. (worldbank.org)
National Human Rights And Women Child Development Commission (Non Governmental Organization) (NHRWCDC) believes in the Justfiable Democracy, So it runs all the Campaigns very peacefully, publically and democratically. (org.in)

International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and demanding women's rights and equality. (cesr.org)
In an address to a virtual town hall with young women from civil society organizations, the Secretary-General said that the global pandemic has already reversed decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality and women's rights. (unwomen.org)
This year, however, it was postponed due to the pandemic and held virtually, with thousands of women activists and defenders of women's rights participating remotely. (unwomen.org)

An ethnographic study of the women migrants in Barkas, an old Arabian neighbourhood in Hyderabad, shows that women migrants over the years have moved from being the so-called dependant migrants to noteworthy contributors to the development of links between the sending and the receiving nations. (epw.in)

Civil society and the women's movements are unflinching partners in the drive to name and tackle the inequalities that have grown under COVID-19, and to put women at the centre of recovery. (unwomen.org)
Despite gender equality being at the centre of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals , not much has been done to advance the rights of women and girls globally. (lu.se)

After decades of significant increases, the labor force participation rate for women has held steady in recent years. (wikipedia.org)
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. (aeaweb.org)
The Color of Our Future focuses on broadening the meaningful participation of underrepresented women and girls of color (Black, Latinx, and Native American). (ncwit.org)
NCWIT's Regional Initiatives bundle research-backed programs and practices to increase the local participation of women and girls in tech fields and careers. (ncwit.org)
To understand local computing ecosystems, and cater content and programming to needs on the ground, NCWIT partners with community stakeholders to build awareness, inspire participation, and connect women to like-minded peers, role models, and opportunities. (ncwit.org)
The labor force participation rate, which is the share of the working-age population that is working or looking for work, increased for women from 43.3% in 1970 to 59.9% in 2000. (pewresearch.org)
By 2000, the long-term growth in the labor force participation rate of women had ceased, and in the aftermath of two recessions in the ensuing decade, it declined. (pewresearch.org)
Employment prospects for Jordanian youth and women are considerably worse than for the average population, Footnote 6 and Jordan ranks 139 out of 142 countries in women's economic participation- one of the lowest rates in the world. (gc.ca)

and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally (FAO, 2017). (fao.org)
The Team for Social Responsibility was founded in 2017 to leverage the celebrity and role model status of star players in achieving these aims. (nif.org)

Mr. Guterres underscored the vital role played by women, as healthcare workers, essential staff, teachers and carers, helping millions globally - both within and outside their homes. (unwomen.org)
Some participants submitted written questions which were read out by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, head of UN Women , the UN agency which promotes gender equality globally. (unwomen.org)
Twenty years later, the Maputo Protocol has been hailed as the most progressive instrument on the rights women and girls globally. (lu.se)

To meaningfully improve the health of Americans, new policies must target all of the drivers of health, including education, economic stability, neighborhoods and environments, social and community well-being, and historic inequities. (americanprogress.org)
Meaningful change to restore the health of Americans and reduce inequities requires a concerted effort by the nation to close the gap with other countries-an effort that must include investments in schools, jobs, economic opportunity, and community infrastructure. (americanprogress.org)
HIV infection can diseases, women are at higher risk and have a more severe be transmitted perinatally, and increasing numbers of chil- course of illness than men for many reasons, including bio- dren--estimated at 12 million--are orphaned by the dis- logic differences, social inequities, and restrictive cultural ease (2). (cdc.gov)
The impact is pervasive and deeply embedded in our society-affecting where one lives, learns, works, worships and plays and creating inequities in access to a range of social and economic benefits-such as housing, education, wealth, and employment. (cdc.gov)
These conditions-often referred to as social determinants of health -are key drivers of health inequities within communities of color, placing those within these populations at greater risk for poor health outcomes, including preterm birth. (cdc.gov)

These post-recession employment trends are a sharp turnabout from the gender patterns that prevailed during the recession itself, when men lost more than twice as many jobs as women. (pewresearch.org)
Employment trends during the recovery have favored men over women in all but one of the 16 major sectors of the economy identified in this report. (pewresearch.org)
Thus, differential trends in labor market activity for women and men do not appear to be the cause of the gender role reversal in jobs lost and gained in the current recovery. (pewresearch.org)

The Economic Survey, 2019 had highlighted a phenomenon of 'dwarfism' - of firms which were surviving for more than 10 years but with stunted growth in terms of employment. (indiatimes.com)

In 2016 already, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on access to energy calling for a gender dimension in all energy policies, focusing on women with particular needs. (europa.eu)
Women and the 81st Amendment Vasanth Kannabiran Kalpana Kannabiran If women manage to push the 81st amendment bill through the parliament, it will topple all current assumptions about hierarchies of caste, class and gender. (epw.in)
Water for Women has been improving the health, gender equality and wellbeing of Asian and Pacific communities, and will now systematically integrate climate change considerations into approaches to maximise ongoing sustainability of new and existing WASH systems and services. (un.org)
A progressive women's economic agenda must close the gender wage gap and raise wages to improve living standards for all working people. (epi.org)
As part of the Adweek Sustainability Playbook , executives of The Female Quotient Ronda Carnegie and Shelley Zalis shine a light on gender equality and discuss what it takes to create an equitable future, considering measurement tools and conscious leadership. (adweek.com)
To reduce the gender gap in digital connectivity so women and girls can more fully participate and thrive in the economy of today and tomorrow. (gatesfoundation.org)
We work to better understand what works to close the gender digital divide and to create opportunities for more women and girls to take advantage of the internet and digital technologies and the opportunities they provide. (gatesfoundation.org)
In seeking to understand the gender-specific barriers, disadvantages, and vulnerabilities related to digital adoption and connectivity, we ask two questions: What needs to change to make this technology or tool as or more useful for women as for men? (gatesfoundation.org)
Jamie M. Zimmerman leads the foundation's work to accelerate closure of the gender digital divide and enhance meaningful digital connectivity to improve the lives and livelihoods of women and girls. (gatesfoundation.org)
CNN's African Voices Changemakers highlights the leadership of Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa and her sisters in the CAMFED Association, deploying their lived experience and deep expertise to achieve gender equality, economic development and climate action through girls' education. (camfed.org)
Because of you, women and gender-diverse people gained new economic opportunities. (canadianwomen.org)
Economic development initiatives for women and gender-diverse people in Canada are more important than ever. (canadianwomen.org)
What's more, community-based economic development programs tailored to women and gender-diverse people are struggling in the pandemic too. (canadianwomen.org)
Because of you, close to 200 women and gender-diverse people were given the support they need to build a more sustainable future at such an uncertain time. (canadianwomen.org)
It requires "wrap-around support" to help women and gender-diverse people break through barriers so they can successfully access economic development program opportunities. (canadianwomen.org)
This consists of health system responsiveness to the needs of women, education of the girl-child, quality health care, elimination of gender discrimination and harmful traditional practices, and an appreciation of the role of women in sustaining human life. (who.int)
Since the 1990s, gradual paradigm shifts have occurred whereby various policies have been developed to adapt family matters to economic pressures and goals, demographic concerns, changing employment structures, pension and childcare systems, gender equality issues and diversifying familial structures (Lewis, 2006, p. (lu.se)
Themed Women Rights, Gender Inequality and Intersectional Vulnerabilities, the conference explored the progress of African Human Rights Systems in advancing substantive equality. (lu.se)

2018. "Male Social Status and Women's Work. (aeaweb.org)

States amending their laws to eliminate discrimination against women while others enacting new legislation to conform with the spirit of Maputo Protocol. (lu.se)
Women and girls who are marginalised are now gaining pace and have become ambassadors of positive change to do away with discrimination against women. (lu.se)
Mama Africa, I know how proud you are of your dearest Tanzania, apart from criminalising Female Genital Mutilation, Tanzania is making strides and has been able to reduce the percentage of FGM from 18% to 10% countrywide and embrace men's and boys' engagement against discrimination against women. (lu.se)

At the continental level, the Maputo Protocol has been instrumental in the elimination of discrimination a gainst Women including harmful practices. (lu.se)

In short, the pandemic is exposing and exacerbating the considerable hurdles women face in achieving their rights and fulfilling their potential", he said. (unwomen.org)
But local demand for these programs has only increased, especially from women who need to retrain as the pandemic pushes them out of the labour force. (canadianwomen.org)

The decade itself is change in American history but tracing the shifting of cultural, political and economic changes. (ipl.org)
The roaring twenties was built upon technology, efficient cause of high wages, private business, birth of new women as Thomas Nixon carver defend the decade by saying it is innovation that brought in cultural revolution "Roaring Twenties", This decade of time has brought change in lifestyle, financial, technology and culture. (ipl.org)
The Conference believes that a caring Church must be ready to resist and oppose the unheeding advance of economic development where it treats minority cultural groups as disposable. (anglicancommunion.org)
Administratively, Shiraz is divided into 7 fect on the subsequent quality of life for large mailing zones, each with distinct so- women remains incomplete and even con- cial, cultural, economic and health charac- troversial. (who.int)
Social, economic, and cultural factors also put women at risk for injury and illness. (cdc.gov)
Yet, due to diverse complexities of domestic socioeconomic, political and cultural circumstances, the peculiarities of the differing welfare regimes and the MSs' reluctance of further extending EU powers, resulted in the creation of soft law as a regulative response to support the MSs balancing economic, employment and social issues. (lu.se)

For example, Making Changes Association of Alberta reported a 45% increase in applications for their fall 2021 Women in Technology Program. (canadianwomen.org)
January 2021: Women are more likely to report their mental health as bad or very bad, especially between the ages of 18- 34 (Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies). (canadianwomen.org)
February 2021: 10 times more women than men have fallen out of the labour force since last year (RBC Economics). (canadianwomen.org)
08/17/2021 financiero y adaptaciones repentinas en el rendimiento del trabajo. (bvsalud.org)

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) discusses global economic, social and environmental challenges. (unwomen.org)
The BSC received a report on NCEH/ATSDR's proposal to integrate social and behavioral sciences (SBS) into its environmental health programs and activities. (cdc.gov)

Through the CAMFED Association, women are leading action on the big challenges their countries face - from child marriage, and girls' exclusion from education, to unemployment and climate change. (camfed.org)
Challenges are economic and social. (bbc.co.uk)
In sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by HIV, broad-based national and international initiatives have women are 30% more likely than men to be HIV-infected been taken to meet these challenges. (cdc.gov)
Additionally, women face different workplace health challenges than men partly because men and women tend to have different kinds of jobs. (cdc.gov)
Women and girls are still faced with challenges including discrimination and violence. (lu.se)

But despite growing investments in digital solutions for health and development, women continue to be left behind across geographies and income segments. (gatesfoundation.org)
Even though the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region has agreed on quotas for representation of women in parliament, none of the countries has fulfilled these quotas. (bbc.co.uk)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) commissioned INTEGRATED International to undertake a formative (mid-term) evaluation of the Canada-funded Women's Economic Linkages and Employment Development (WE-LEAD) and Launching Economic Achievement (LEAP) projects. (gc.ca)
Enhancement of the level of economic and social integration of unemployed women from minority ethnic communities, in particular Roma, Albanian and Turkish communities, through opening regional training centres aimed at long-term education, pre-qualification and development of personal skills. (taeugrants.net)
That's why ational Human Rights And Women Child Development Commission considers the Rights as the most important factor of human life before prescribing the Duties. (org.in)
Baboo Nair, Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University: "Networking grant for further development and strengthening of the SASNETWORK on fermented foods, public health and social well-being formed in Nov-2003 to increase its sustainability. (lu.se)
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development through the GIZ-AU AWARE Project , Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Stellenbosch University. (lu.se)

The study highlights the need for improved data and understanding of the interconnections between women's economic inactivity and entrepreneurship, in order to formulate effective policies to support women entrepreneurs in the Arab region. (unescwa.org)

Footnote 5 Currently, only 14% of women in Jordan are actively engaged in the labour market, a level well below regional and world averages. (gc.ca)
Stipulation of institutional cooperation between NGOs on one side and governmental institutions on other side: Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the Employment Agency of Republic of Macedonia at local and regional level. (taeugrants.net)

Meaningful digital connectivity gives women more control over their health, home, and livelihood, but multiple barriers stand in the way, including lack of access, low digital literacy, and online safety issues. (gatesfoundation.org)

Social Economic factors are simple. (ipl.org)
It addresses the health conditions that are specific to or more prevalent in women, have severe consequences and imply certain risk factors. (who.int)
However, several known factors may increase the likelihood that a woman could deliver early. (cdc.gov)
and behavioral factors of women with high risk of early delivery. (cdc.gov)
The sociodemographic and health behaviour factors that were significantly related to early mean age of menopause were: never married (44.7 years), low income level (47.4 years), low social class (45.8 years), tobacco use (47.9 years) and non-consanguineous husband (48.1 years). (who.int)
the demographic characteristics, experience, and knowledge of the work er , and economic and social factors. (cdc.gov)

While workplace exposures can affect both male and female reproduction, issues related to reproduction and pregnancy are of particular concern to women. (cdc.gov)
When a woman is pregnant, her exposures at work can affect her developing baby. (cdc.gov)

We present novel data on spouses' preferences and perceptions of community attitudes about female labor in rural India and document associations with female work. (aeaweb.org)
This is an appeal to the subscribers, contributors, advertisers and well-wishers of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the office of the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai, India. (epw.in)

In crime, women are less likely to be the target of violent crimes than in the past but they are more likely than men to be the victims of intimate partner violence and stalking. (wikipedia.org)
Women pay severely as a result of regressive tax and budget policies implemented around the world in this age of fiscal austerity, whether it is through lesser access to reproductive rights services, increased care burdens resulting from reduced social protection, or domestic violence which underfunded programs fail to prevent. (cesr.org)
In the United States, more than 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men experience some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime. (medscape.com)

Women generally have more work-related cases of carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, and anxiety and stress disorders. (cdc.gov)

We are a network of over 2,500 women and young women across the Black Belt in Alabama and Georgia, and the Delta in Mississippi guided by Black Women-Led Organizations, honoring the achievements of our ancestry. (srbwi.org)

New HIVinfections among women are also on mental, and demographic the rise in the United States. (cdc.gov)
I argue that women from this demographic view education as a crucial variable that facilitates their social and economic integration into the larger US society. (princeton.edu)

The sole exception to these patterns is state government, a sector of the economy in which women have added jobs during the recovery while men have lost them. (pewresearch.org)
While an expanding and increasingly productive economy creates the potential for broadly shared prosperity, in recent decades economic gains have been captured almost exclusively by those at the top. (epi.org)
The following 12-point policy agenda will give low- and moderate-wage workers more economic leverage, change the rules so that a growing economy benefits hardworking Americans, and maximize women's economic security. (epi.org)
This volume explores how programs such as social security, income transfers, and child care in Western Europe, the United States, and Japan have affected labor market flexibility-the ability of workers to adjust to fast-growing segments of the economy. (nber.org)
The economic situation is worsening by the day as a result of the market economy that determines access to and distribution of commodities. (bbc.co.uk)

As the Clinton administration considers major overhauls in health insurance, welfare, and labor market regulation, it is important for economists and policymakers to understand the impact of social and welfare programs on employment rates. (nber.org)
A valuable comparison of labor markets and welfare programs, this book demonstrates how social protection policies have affected employment rates around the globe. (nber.org)
Many wealthy countries have growing urban slums that drain health resources and strain the social welfare system. (who.int)

According to the foreword, women have made "enormous progress" in education. (wikipedia.org)
More women than men have received a graduate education. (wikipedia.org)
Higher percentages of women than men participate in adult education. (wikipedia.org)
Education pays for both women and men, but the pay gap persists. (wikipedia.org)
In five other sectors, including education and health services and professional and business services, men gained jobs at a faster rate than women. (pewresearch.org)
Controlling for education and income, age, and baseline episodic memory and executive functioning, lower subjective social status had additional adverse effects on declines in episodic memory in men and women. (springer.com)
Similarly, although combination antiretroviral therapy offers the potential to HIV and AIDS in Women manage the disease as a chronic, treatable condition, In addition to hunger, lack of education, and environ- access to such treatment is primarily limited to persons in mental and sociocultural constraints, HIV/AIDS and high-income countries, which excludes the most severely malaria, along with tuberculosis, continue to dispropor- affected regions. (cdc.gov)
How do immigrant and second-generation West-African women conceptualize and navigate economic and social class hierarchies in US higher education and workplace contexts? (princeton.edu)
I conduct in-depth interviews with 12 first and second-generation West African women who currently reside on the East Coast of the United States for work, education, or both. (princeton.edu)

Tell our governments to ensure the Human Right to Water is realized through universal access to public water services that boost women's health and economic independence. (cesr.org)

Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being is a report issued in 2011 by the United States Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration and the Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget for the White House Council on Women and Girls, during the administration of President Barack Obama. (wikipedia.org)
I think it will inform a wide variety of different policy in programs that the federal government will either initiate or continue but it will be evidence-based," Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama who is chair of the White House Council on Women and Children, said in a conference phone call announcing the report's publication. (wikipedia.org)
Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies for a Smart Women, Smart Power panel conversation with Jennifer Klein, Chief Strategy and Policy Officer of TIME'S UP, Rakeen Mabud, Director of Research and Strategy of TIME'S UP, and Rachel Vogelstein, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). (csis.org)
She previously served on the White House Council on Women and Girls and served as a top official in the Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State. (csis.org)

When women gain access to skills training, resources and opportunities to grow rural enterprises, they gain economic independence and agency, supporting themselves, their families and communities to thrive. (camfed.org)

The Australian Government has made the decision to invest additional funds to extend the Water for Women Fund with a dedicated focus on climate change adaptation. (un.org)
Projects are also addressing the challenge that climate change is not experienced equally, with women and marginalised communities bearing the brunt of negative impacts to climatic events. (un.org)
In this extension phase, Water for Women is committed to building and sharing greater understanding of how climate change will impact GEDSI strategies in WASH delivery and how they can be successfully adapted to maximise the sustainability and equitability of WASH approaches in the varying and challenging contexts of climate change in the Asia Pacific region. (un.org)
Educated women make choices that reduce future carbon emissions and increase community resilience to climate change, including through leadership for sustainable futures and the adoption of climate-smart technologies. (camfed.org)

Four female members of NIF's Soccer Team for Social Responsibility officially launched their campaign called "Women Soccer Players Making Change. (nif.org)
In the short term, this campaign will work to secure funding from the Ministry of Sports to open a new women's league in the coming season, and to discuss measures that can develop women's soccer in Israel by changing social perceptions and the criteria for distributing budgets. (nif.org)

Women of color face even larger wage gaps: Black women earn 65.1 percent and Hispanic women earn 58.9 percent of white men's hourly earnings. (epi.org)
In 2022, the rate of preterm birth among African-American women (14.6%) was about 50 percent higher than the rate of preterm birth among white or Hispanic women (9.4% and 10.1% respectively). (cdc.gov)

Unemployment rates for women have risen less than for men in recent recessions. (wikipedia.org)
Both women and men gained jobs, with women doing so at a faster rate, immediately after the recessions in 1969-70, 1973-75, 1980-82 and 1990-91. (pewresearch.org)

HIV infection in women has obvious implications for Gerberding year (1). (cdc.gov)

To address this problem, perinatal HBV preven- ment to 3 million HIV-infected persons in developing tion programs screen pregnant women for HBV and fol- countries by the end of 2005. (cdc.gov)
However, pregnant women can take important steps to help reduce their risk of preterm birth and improve their general health. (cdc.gov)

1 Women, by contrast, lost 218,000 jobs during the same period, and their unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 8.5%, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. (pewresearch.org)

In health, men suffer from heart disease and diabetes more than women do. (wikipedia.org)
The share of women age 18-64 without health insurance has increased. (wikipedia.org)
One out of seven women age 18-64 has no usual source of health care. (wikipedia.org)
Our work supports a digital future that reduces burdens on women and girls, fosters their aspirations, and supports their health and resilience and the well-being of their families and communities. (gatesfoundation.org)
Public health strategies should focus on reducing social stress in a socio-ecological perspective. (springer.com)
Chistova E.V., Tyrsin A.N. Identification of Interconnection between Health and Employment of Retirement Age Women. (ac.ru)
The purpose of the paper is to identify the interconnection between the employment of pensioners and their health (on the example of pension age women in the most active age group), which will allow justifying the more efficient policy in this area. (ac.ru)
An analysis of newly diag- changes during the 20th century nosed HIV infections that occurred in 29 states from 1999 have affected the health of to 2002 showed that more than one third (35%) of cases women. (cdc.gov)
among these hetero- have benefited women's health, sexually transmitted infections, almost two thirds (64%) but some have had deleterious occurred in women (4). (cdc.gov)
Efforts to recognize and with great success in many parts of the world, services reduce health disparities among women have particular that prevent mother-to-child transmission are severely relevance for global health. (cdc.gov)
Health has become an attractive focus for corporate social responsibility. (who.int)
1. Women's health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of women throughout their lifespan and not only their reproductive health. (who.int)
2. Women's biological vulnerability, low social status, limited access to health services, low level of literacy and lack of decision-making powers are major determinants of ill-health. (who.int)
The decision about when to seek health care is not always vested in the woman but rather in those who have power over her. (who.int)
With over 58% of U.S. women in the labor force [i] , the workplace must be considered when looking at women's overall health. (cdc.gov)

We find that the perceived social cost of women's work falls on men and that husbands' opposition to female labor is associated with their wives' lower take-up of employment. (aeaweb.org)
Based on fairly similar domestic political and socioeconomic developments affecting work-family reconciliation issues, the MSs advocated an extension of EU competencies in social, economic and employment matters. (lu.se)

Fewer women are married than in the past. (wikipedia.org)
Women are having fewer children. (wikipedia.org)
Women earn the majority of conferred degrees overall but earn fewer degrees than men in science and technology. (wikipedia.org)
The legislation will mean large-scale reorganisation of constituency allocation in order to accommodate, women, and thus fewer seats for men. (epw.in)

The various stages in the life of a woman range from infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood to the post- reproductive years. (who.int)
In the workforce, 75% of women are of reproductive age. (cdc.gov)

In particular, the roles of both women and men should not be neglected in terms of maintaining, creating and restoring dryland sustainable landscape. (fao.org)
Making a departure from the earlier studies of diasporas, this paper points to the fact that despite being involved in circular migration, and even in their gendered roles, women can affect the formation of the diasporas through their social remittances. (epw.in)
The latter being in terms of the roles women are assigned in society. (bbc.co.uk)
This is particularly true as women are carrying out multiple roles as bread winners, wives and mothers. (bbc.co.uk)

Limited research is available on the relationship between social stress and risk of declining cognition. (springer.com)
We sought to examine whether social stress has adverse effects on risk of declining episodic memory and executive functioning in aging individuals. (springer.com)
Marital risk had adverse effects on episodic memory in men but not in women. (springer.com)
Another step women and their partners can take to reduce the risk of preterm birth is waiting at least 18 months between pregnancies . (cdc.gov)
Among women, risk for arthritis varied directly with BMI. (cdc.gov)

We must keep in mind that susceptibility to hazards can be different for men and women. (cdc.gov)
Below you will find summaries, with links to more research, of some hazards faced by women in the workplace as well as links to industry-specific research from NIOSH that relates to women. (cdc.gov)

Arthritis and other rheumatic conditions are among the most prevalent diseases in the United States, particularly for women and some racial/ethnic groups (1-3). (cdc.gov)

As national geographic stated human migration is the moving of people from a place in the world to another, therefore these events take place because of political and/or social reasons. (ipl.org)

Significant wage gaps still exist between men and women, with the median woman worker earning 83 percent of men's hourly wages. (epi.org)
Southern Journeys is a worker-owned social enterprise that draws its inspiration from the West African traditions of piece sewing and quilting. (srbwi.org)
To establish the Panchayati Virtuous Social Structure as Leader, Administrator, Commercial, Agro Worker & Criminal. (org.in)

2 Neither women nor men gained jobs two years into the recovery from the 2001 recession, but losses for women were only half as much as for men. (pewresearch.org)
Using the NESPD and the BHPS for the period 1991-2001 we show that perhaps one - quarter of women moving from full - to part - time work move to an occupation at a lower level of qualification. (ssrn.com)

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