Sentences with phrase «women in developed countries experience»

«The stresses that many indigenous women and women in developing countries experience as a result of climate change are more severe, due to their direct reliance on nature and primary resources for their survival,» Lake said.

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While the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the developing world are as diverse as the countries they inhabit, since the difficulties facing a small woman - owned business in Vietnam looks nothing like that of a new venture in, say, Turkey or India, there are some common challenges.

Many developing countries — from Thailand and Colombia to Iran — have experienced comparable declines in family size by getting better family - planning services and educational opportunities to more women and girls in more places.

What: The charity: water Waterwalk is a moving, interactive experience where you are invited to take off your shoes and carry two 40 - pound yellow jerry cans a fraction of the distance in which millions of women and children in developing countries must walk in order to collect water each day.

As many as 13 — 20 percent of adolescents in the U.S. and other developed countries experience minor or major depressive episodes each year, according to Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW).