The answer may have something to do not with the status of women but with the status of books.
It's long past the time to close the gender gap in our nation's leadership and in the media and telecom industries' leadership especially, where in 2011 only 28.4% of TV news directors were women, according to the Women's Media Center's 2012 Status of Women in the U.S. Media report.
This is the first comprehensive federal report on women since 1963, when the Commission on the Status of Women, established by President Kennedy and chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, produced a report on the conditions of women.
Prioritising investment in lifelong learning for women, creating multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres, improving access to and participation in the full range of adult learning and education programmes for women are among the necessary steps to enhance the status of women and facilitate the achievement of gender equality and equity in and through education.
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Clinton avoided presidential politics, devoting a half-hour speech at the annual Women in the World conference in New York to the status of women across the globe.
Women, whose status has shot up under secular regimes, are particularly fearful of an Islamic revival.
Between the two extremes in women's status, we have a much less dramatic -- but still crucial -- struggle.
"Colleagues, please do not relegate women to the status that says ... their health does not matter, " said California Democrat Barbara Boxer.
A.s take six to eight years to make partner, so many women attain partner status just as they are ready to have children.
Both parties want to reduce women to the status of breeding animals and force me to pay higher taxes so they can do it.
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The ruling by the House of Lords will be of significance to other women seeking refugee status because of persecution based on their sex.
In fact, since men are not particularly attracted to powerful mates, high-status women do not profit from their rank, at least not in so far as it affects their access to men.
Bachelet made her announcement minutes after more than 130 countries adopted a 17-page U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women after two weeks of tough negotiations at the Commission on the Status of Women.
And their findings about teen births, women's status and innovation depend on Scandinavia, a region with a mild and sensible culture that is equally evident among people of Scandinavian stock who live in America.
One of the few goods to have come of the ISAF presence in Afghanistan is an Afghan constitution that gives women equal legal status to men (Article 22), the right to go to school (Articles 43 and 44), access jobs (Article 48) and hold political office (Article 84).
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Over 50 years since the founding of United Nations and nearly 100 since women won the right to vote in the U.S., the international agency has put women in the spotlight this week with the official launch of UN Women which coincided with the 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women .
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If only CES would intervene on behalf of women, banning the presence of Booth Babes and helping to elevate the status of women within the industry.
Women are the most important influences upon their children's health and the status of women in India is notoriously low.
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She is the leader of a local women's group that is working with the Ethiopian government to end early marriages and improve the status of women.
When the most powerful country in the world does not support women's rights, it gives permission for other countries to dismiss their commitment to improving the status of women.
It was also found that trained women enjoyed a higher status in the family.
It took Western democracy as a model and worked for the equal status of women.
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The changing status of women is also believed to have had an impact on care for the elderly.
Because of the low status of women in our societies, I think the girls' education is not always valued.
There were plenty of laws enforcing the second-tier status of women in 1963.
Countries that outperform their economic peers on maternal and child health tend to do very well on the political status of women.
But above all, Osotimehin, a father of five, says what needs to be changed is the status of women around the world.
So could men and women ever enjoy equal status in the workforce?
While nightly news shows are steadily slipping in relevance, think of the just-released Global Report on Status of Women in News Media.
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It is our hope that reports like this will spark continued discussions regarding the status of women and girls and inspire proactive change.
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