Adding a gender dimension to economic decision-making. (includes related article on economic aspects of women's unpaid work)(Fourth World Conference on Women)(Cover Story)

UN Chronicle | June 1, 1995| | Copyright

Women hold a meagre 1 per cent of executive positions in the 1,000 largest corporations based outside the United States. The proportion is higher, at 8 per cent, in the 1,000 largest corporations in the United States, but only a handful of women hold the top-most positions, according to a recent study by the UN Secretariat Division for the Advancement of Women.

The same is true for the web of powerful global and regional multi-lateral institutions, where "women have been virtually excluded from key decision-making positions and from negotiating roles", as well as ...

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