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Pesticide usage and and health consequences for women in developing countries: Out of sight, out of mind?
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Pesticide exposures of women in developing countries are aggravated by economic policy changes associated with structural adjustment programs and globalization. Women in these countries, particularly in the agricultural sector, are increasingly exposed. Since they are concentrated in the most marginal positions in the formal and informal workforces, and production is organized in a gender-specific way, opportunities for women to control their exposures are limited. Data from developing countr...
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Women in development. (European Community's stance on women's issues in developing countries) (Transcript)
WIN News
; FROM: WOMEN OF EUROPE SUPPLEMENTS NO. 38, Rue de la Loi, 200, 1049 Brussels, BELGIUM THIS SPECIAL ISSUE OF WOMEN OF EUROPE HAS BEEN UPDATED BY PAMELA NICHOLS MARCUCCI, PROGRAMME OFFICER, THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT (AIDoS) CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION // THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND
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Women's status, fertility decline, and women's health in developing countries: Direct and indirect influences of social status on health
Rural Sociology
; Women's Status, Fertility Decline, and Women's Health in Developing Countries: Direct and Indirect Influences of Social Status on Health* ABSTRACT In the present three-wave study of 72 developing countries, we use growth curves to examine how changes in fertility and level of fertility mediate the
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Women's education in developing countries.
WIN News
; FROM THE FORWARD BY LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS, V.P., DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, & CHIEF ECONOMIST: Enhancing women's contribution to development is as much an economic as a social issue Recent research and concrete calculations show that educating females yields for-reaching benefits for girls and women
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Mother-infant health promotion in developing countries: how can the developed world help developing countries?
Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
; It must first be said that the Third World's terrible health-care situation cannot and should not be considered without putting it into context. It is not possible to help to solve its sanitary problems if we do not also help to resolve its social problems, and this means assessing its deficits,
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Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Pacific Affairs
; WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment. Edited by Rekha Datta and Judith Kornberg. Boulder (Colorado): Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2002. ix, 189 pp. (Tables.) US$19.95, paper. ISBN 1-58826-039-9. A focus on women's empowerment is timely as we round the corner toward 2005,
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Gender bias still plagues women in developing countries.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin
; TAMIRA Jagosina, 24, a newly registered nurse, was told by a Tananarive, Madagascar, hospital that her application for employment was turned down. The reason - a male nurse was hired instead of her. Yet, she and the male nurse were of the same age and had basically the same qualifications.
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Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries
Economic Geography
; Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries. Edited by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman, and Gale Summerfield. London: Routledge, 1994. The title of Women in the Age of Economic Transformation is a misnomer. Reading this
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Advancing Women Into Educational Leadership in Developing Countries: The Case of Uganda
Advancing Women in Leadership
; Abstract The need for women in leadership positions in schools in developing countries is important to ensure sensitivity within schools for the wellbeing of adolescent girls, to provide girls beginning to consider career choices with role models of women decision-makers and leaders, and to address
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Food security and women in developing countries.
Ahfad Journal
; Women in developing countries play a vital role in meeting the food and nutritional needs of their families through food production, economic access to food and ensuring nutrition security of family members. Despite these contributions, women are constrained by poverty, illiteracy, lack of access
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Traditional birth attendants in developing countries cannot be expected to carry out HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment activities.(Commentary)
Reproductive Health Matters
; Abstract: Pregnancy and birth, fertility and fertility regulation are all greatly affected by the exigencies of HIV and AIDS, and vice versa. Women and infants can only benefit if the respective policymakers, researchers and service providers in sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS,
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