Gender imbalance worsens poverty
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Lack of power for women in the home increases poverty and harms children, says the Unicef annual report.
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ANOTHER gender gap has appeared, this time on a poll testing men&#39;s and women&#39;s knowledge of issues in the presidential campaign.
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More workers than ever were living in poverty last year, and greater efforts need to be made to create more and better jobs if the world is going to achieve the target of halving poverty by 2015, according to a UN report released yesterday.
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The global obesity pandemic combined with society's anti-fat bias is more damaging to women than to men, an expert has warned at an international conference.
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Discrimination against women is stopping economic and social development in the Arab World, the UN reports.
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The gap between the pay of UK women and men is bigger than previously thought, a report says.
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Women of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Caribbean descent still face poor work prospects despite forging ahead in schools, a report finds.
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Asian officials called for gender equality to become an integral part of budget planning, saying the gap between the sexes has not been a sufficient priority.
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Sharp drop in economic confidence hitting poorest people hardest, Guardian/ICM research reveals
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A new study challenges the conventional wisdom that women talk more than men do.
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Poverty can be quite educational. When you've got only so much money to spend, you'll think carefully about the goods you're buying.
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Any effort to battle the AIDS epidemic must focus on changing the fate of women by educating them, helping them own property and giving
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1042 3886&fsrc=RSS Looking for the right man SIR â My husband and I enjoyed your article on spousal selection and its finding that women have better choices the higher the ratio of males to females (âA buyers' marketâ, December 15th). But there may be limits to this. We travelled to Alaska ten years ago and read several [...].
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New research shows mental illness is neglected in the developing world and up to 800,000 commit suicide each year.
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Participants at a day&#39;s seminar organized by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre have blamed the high numbers of women living with HIV/AIDS on gender inequities and the lack of adequate legislations on women&#39;s rights.
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The government's strategy for tackling child poverty discriminates against two-parent families, a report claims.
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It was activities galore as the world celebrated the World HIV/AIDS Day. The celebration explores how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic and is conceived to accelerate the global response