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Texas has an uninsured rate of 23% among women—the highest in the country. For women, health insurance coverage is a critical factor in making health care affordable and accessible. Women with health coverage are more likely to obtain needed preventive, primary, and specialty care services and have better access to advances in women's health.
BREAST CANCER is primarily a disease of older women; only approximately 25% of incident cases occur in women younger than 50 years.1 However, the population bulge in this age group has increased the absolute number of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer in recent years. During the last decade the mortality rate from breast cancer has .
News from Magadelena Lewis, the PW Representative to the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Committee on the Status of Women. Non-governmental organizations around the world meet to plan ways that the lives of women can be improved, which in turn builds strong communities.
there is a global lack of coverage of women's sport and sportswomen, with the vast majority of resources and exposure focused on men's sport. Sports deemed "gender appropriate" are more likely to be covered (e.g. women's gymnastics and men's boxing vs women's boxing and men's gymnastics). Women are also underrepresented in .
of women's health. Evidence collected in this literature review suggests women experience health inequities and inequalities as a direct result of their distinct gender role. Gender-based vulnerabilities identified in the literature included: income inequality between men and women (Ichiro Kawachi & Kennedy, 1999)
Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) is a 320 million, 10-year program (2012-2022) focused on enabling women and men across the 14 Pacific Island Forum countries to improve the political, social and economic opportunities for women. It reflects the Government of
empower women through advocating change of destiny for women in its ads, gender ideology remains to be dominant and continues to perpetrate women. It is concluded that these new changes in the ads are simply playful discursive strategies that employed by advertisers to legitimate the new capitalism and commercialism and generate more sales.
Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Updated on 31 March 2016) Table of Contents Target 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere. . 2 Target 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and
3.1 The relationship between vocational training and rural women empowerment The vocational training programme for rural women aims to develop entrepreneurial skills among rural women. Ahamad (2016) states that skill development gained through vocational training is an agent of change in promoting rural women employment.
and empowering women entrepreneurs in the region. REINTEGRATION OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES THROUGH MULTI-SKILLS TRAINING FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION (2013-2015; US 1.2 million; Government of Japan) The project trained 544 women and young women and men who, after being refugees, had returned to Liberia and needed a livelihood.
equality through our supply chains, employees and customers. It's also a commercial necessity for us. Women play an important role in the cultivation of our essential raw material: the cocoa bean. By empowering women, we're helping to ensure the sustainability of our most important ingredient. Women's empowerment is increasingly
The employment rate for Mexican women with tertiary degrees is mor e than 15 percentage points lower than that of men with similar education (72% for women and 88% for men). This is the fourth largest gap between OECD countries, after Korea, Japan and Turke y [1]. 47.3% of women remain outside the labor