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Progress of the World's Women
2005: Women, Work & Poverty.
United Nations Development Fund
for Women,
2005.
Martha
Chen,
Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
"Women, Work and Poverty is an innovative study that
advances our understanding of the inter-relationship of
employment, gender and poverty in low-income countries ...
This study offers new perspectives and new tools which will
contribute to improved data collection, better public policy
and hence more equitable and effective poverty reduction
strategies in the years ahead" -- Jeffrey Sachs.
"Since 1972, when we started SEWA, we have worked hard to
bring our members - working poor women in the informal
economy - into the mainstream of the labour movement, the
women's movement, and economic planning. We have struggled,
in many cases with support from UNIFEM, for their visibility
in national statistics and their voice in local, national,
and international policy-making bodies. Progress of the
World's Women 2005 represents another important milestone in
this struggle" -- Ela Bhatt, Founder of SEWA, India. |
