SOSC 1430 Chapter Notes -Ester Boserup, Powdered Milk, World Bank
11 Oct 2013
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Gender and development: issues and struggle of third world women. Despite numerous initiatives and efforts by the international community, stats show that women are still socio-economically worse off than men. 1. 2 billion people in the world are living in extreme poverty; 70% are women (disadvantaged in terms of lack of access to property, housing, credit, technology, health care, inheritance, education, jobs, etc. In africa, women account for over 75% of agricultural work, 60-80% of production & marketing, yet they earn only 10% of total revenue and own less than 1% of land that they work on (51) 85 millions school-aged girls are deprived of their education; account for over half of the children who don"t go to school. Women account for 2/3rd of illiterate population (52) Low education + low socio-political status = low quality + unstable employment = dependence on men + physical + sexual abuse (52)
