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For women in poverty, contraception is not top priority, sch...

In a devastating critique of plans for a redoubled international drive to promote contraception in the Third World, Greg Pfundstein and Meghan Grizzle point out that women living in poverty have many more immediate needs: for food, shelte [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Women to Turn to Surrogacy and Drug Trials to Escape Poverty

Living dangerously is nothing new for a majority of the women of Ward 56 of Amraiwadi area (of India), even if the risks that the women take are merely to escape the poverty that bedevils the locality. More than 70% of the women in A [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty reduction: UN to support women’s initiatives in Paki...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations has decided to support all the initiatives aimed at empowering women which will help reduce poverty in Pakistan, a senior official said Sunday. Speaking to women entrepreneurs, Inez Wijngaarde, Senior Industr [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Brain Health: Are Women Right To Be More Concerned Than Men?

I recently offered free copies of my new book on brain health in return for a review. Guess what... over 70% of the respondents were women. A surprising result...? No not really! Compared with men... Women are more willing to a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Poverty hits women hard

Women are still the poorest of the poor in Hamilton, according to a report being released Monday. It's estimated that of the 90,000 people who live below the poverty line in Hamilton, 43 per cent -- or 40,000 -- are women. This compa [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

40 per cent of ethnic minority women live in poverty

About 40 per cent of ethnic minority women are living in poverty, twice the proportion of white women. According to a new report by the Fawcett Society and Oxfam, Poverty pathways – ethnic minority women’s livelihoods, poverty [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Women empowerment may end poverty

Empowerment of women is absolutely essential to eradicate poverty and they need special allocations in the budget as despite being over 50 per cent of the population they remain under-privileged. This was the consensus among speakers a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Women's Day marks crisis of poverty, violence

Women rallied worldwide to demand equal rights and protest against domestic violence and growing poverty in the global economic crisis as they marked International Women's Day. Thousands gathered in public squares from Bangalore to Kinsha [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

W brings awareness to women's poverty, homelessness in commu...

W (Power in Women) arose from a need, but has gone on to fill the needs of many. In April 2007, Amanda Snyder said she realized Texas A&M was missing a greater focus on women's needs. "I noticed a lack of women's organizations in c [...]