Sentences with phrase «more women in the developing world»

If its goal of providing family planning services to 120 million more women in the developing world is met, the payoff would be enormous at multiple levels: lower maternal and child mortality, better health, higher educational attainment, poverty reduction, greater food and water security.

Not exact matches

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Women in the developed and, to some extent, the developing world are spending much less time in unpaid household work, especially in tasks like cooking, cleaning, and laundry, and much more time in paid work.

More than 200 million women in the developing world want to use contraception but do not have access to it.

It is interesting to look at some more sweeping generalisations often made by psychologists: that men are more oriented towards rights and justice, women more towards responsibility and caring (and, yes, self - giving); or, to put it another way, male identity is forged in relation to the world, and female identity awakened in a relationship of intimacy with other persons; or, further, that «development», in the male mode, implies establishing the independence of «self» from others, while in the female mode self is developed by relating to others.

Smarty Tourtle that means that 90 % of homebirths in US are attended by midwives that are so lacking in skills and training that they would not be allowed to come near pregnant women anywhere else in the developed world, and if you did not know that please learn more before you accuse people on here of being inflammatory.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

Despite being one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, the USA loses more women and babies during childbirth than any other well - developed country.

• Although deaths linked to atrial fibrillation are rising around the world, more women with atrial fibrillation are dying in developing countries.

This simple camera and light source allows diagnosis and treatment of vesicovaginal fistula, a complication of childbirth among more than 2 million women in the developing world and common in sub-Saharan Africa, that results in a potentially deadly opening between the bladder and vagina.

A study conducted by the World Health Organization found that women who carry the human papilloma virus (HPV) and who have taken the Pill for five to nine years are nearly three times more likely than non-Pill users to develop cervical cancer.7 (HPV affects a third of all women in their twenties.)

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

A UN Women report says that «more than 1 billion people in the world today (2), live in unacceptable conditions of poverty mostly in the developing countries.»

The studies, both out of Brazil, measure how air pollution lowers fertility in men and can complicate pregnancies in women — problems likely to be compounded by the rapid urbanization taking place in the developing world where access to healthcare is much more limited.

I believe this, not women on boards per se, is the real issue... There's no doubt in my mind that developing more women leaders will make a real difference to the success of the UK economy, our productivity and the UK's future place in the world,» said Carolyn recently.