61. Women make up 40 percent of the world’s work force in agriculture, a quarter in industry, and a third in services. Women farmers in the developing countries grow at least 50 percent of the world’s food, as much as 80 percent in some African countries.
62. In addition to income and generating activities ( in cash and kind), women’s household activities include caring for the sick, house maintenance, and such vital work as caring for children, preparing food, and fetching firewood and water. Yet women’s productivity remains low. both in income-generating work and in home production. Improving women’s productivity can contribute to growth, efficiency, and poverty reduction. Key development goals everywhere.
63. Investing in women —in education, health, family planning--is thus an important part of development strategy as well as a matter of social justice. It is an integral part of the World Bank’s ov
61. Women make up 40 percent of the world’s work force in agriculture, a quarter in industry, and a third in services. Women farmers in the developing countries grow at least 50 percent of the world’s food, as much as 80 percent in some African countries.
62. In addition to income and generating activities ( in cash and kind), women’s household activities include caring for the sick, house maintenance, and such vital work as caring for children, preparing food, and fetching firewood and water. Yet women’s productivity remains low. both in income-generating work and in home production. Improving women’s productivity can contribute to growth, efficiency, and poverty reduction. Key development goals everywhere.
63. Investing in women —in education, health, family planning--is thus an important part of development strategy as well as a matter of social justice. It is an integral part of the World Bank’s ov
Wow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject — including maths and engineering. Speaking as an ardent feminist, I expect that this will have many wonderful results: a culture that is more feng shui and emotionally literate and altogether nicer, and an economy that benefits from unleashing the phenomenal energy and talents of British women who are — if GCSEs, A-levels and university entrance results mean anything -- currently giving the male sex a good old intellectual whipping.
Obviously a corner of my heart worries about some aspects of the coming feminisation. Will we all become even more safety-conscious, regulation-prone and generally incapable of beating the Australians at anything than we already are And even if the feminist revolution is good and unstoppable, we should perhaps consider some of the downsides — and the most intere
A. male sex is outnumbered in most campuses
B. women will be an economically boosting factor
C. a-levels have begun to take on more weight
D. enthusiastic feminists are less emotionally loaded
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