Status and Advancement of WomenReviews the problems and priorities as well as international bills and actions relating to the advancement of women. Covers women and work, their health and education, violence and poverty, the UN Action for Women, the Beijing Declaration, and the Commission on the Status of Women. |
Contents
Women at a Glance | 1 |
The Advancement of Women | 5 |
The Nairobi ForwardLooking Strategies | 13 |
Women and Work | 19 |
Womens Health | 35 |
Women and Education | 51 |
Violence against Women | 67 |
Where Women Stand Today | 83 |
Women and Violence | 131 |
Refugee Women | 143 |
Women in Extreme Poverty | 149 |
Women the Information Revolution and the Beijing Conference | 171 |
A Key to Womens Empowerment | 185 |
UN Action for Women | 195 |
Setting the Global Agenda | 203 |
Discrimination against Women | 209 |
Women and Economic Decisionmaking | 95 |
Measuring Womens Unpaid Work | 101 |
Women and the Media | 105 |
The Girl Child | 115 |
Violence against women | 123 |
for the Advancement of Women | 223 |
The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action | 307 |
Commission on the Status of Women | 435 |
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