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International Women’s Day - March 8, 2011
Theme: "Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women."
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More than one-third of the female workforce is engaged in agriculture,
while in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia more than 60% of all
female employment is in this sector.1 |
Two-thirds
of the
world’s 796
million
illiterate
adults are
women.2 |
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Only 29%
of
researchers
in the
world
today are
women.3 |
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"Women are central to our effort to elevate
development as a pillar of our foreign policy alongside diplomacy and defense. As those who grow the world’s food, collect the water, gather the firewood and wash the clothes — and increasingly, as those who work in the factories, run the shops, launch new businesses and create jobs — women are powerful forces for economic growth and social progress."- Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State, March, 2010 4 |
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1 Rural Women and Development. Available at www.wikigender.org/index.php/Rural_Women_and_Development
2 International Literacy Day, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Available at www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=8107_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
3 Message of the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. Available at
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001913/191391e.pdf
4 Women are at the heart of US foreign policy. The Sunday Times. Available at
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7081844.ece |
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For centuries, women have played a critical role in growing food - from the hard labor needed for irrigation and cultivation to the work involved in harvest and production of food up to selling it in the market. Women grow and provide food and water for their families and are responsible for meeting the basic needs of their children. |
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This page was last updated on
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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