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Feminization of Poverty
70 per cent of the world's poor are women. The majority of the 1.5 billion people living on $1 a day or less are women.
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Precious Movie Based on Young Adult Novel Push
The young adult novel, Push has been adapted into the movie, Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and will be released in movie theaters in November, 2009.
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Caroline Chisolm - The Immigrants' Friend
The story of Australian woman Caroline Chisholm, who spent her life helping destitute women and girls in early Sydney.
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International Women's Day 2008
International Women's Day is a worldwide celebration of women's rights and recognition of its importance in our global community.
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Poverty Simulation Reveals Struggles Of The Poor
Students, faculty and friends of Grand Valley State University outside Grand Rapids, Michigan were presented a new look on life recently: a life lived in poverty.
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Women and Climate Change
Climate change policies must consider gender issues and women's involvement for the advancement of world development.
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Maya Centre Nominated for Prestigious Award
The Maya Centre in North Islington, UK, celebrating its 25th birthday this year, has been nominated for a national award for their work in mental health.
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Sex, Marriage and Birth Control
Margaret Louise Higgins saw women dying every day because of childbearing, poverty and ignorance, and decided that she would do something to help these unfortunate women.
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Why Do Women Still Earn Less?
More than 30 years after the feminist movement took hold in North America, women continue to battle for pay equality in the workplace. But the situation is getting worse.
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Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
Margaret Sanger was appalled at the conditions facing married women in the late 1800s and early 1900s who were bearing too many children, ruining their health and dying.
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The Women's Rights Movement
Are the freedoms that female human rights activists fought so hard to obtain now being taken for granted?
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