The numbers are growing across racial and ethnic groups, except for Asian women, the study said.
South-Asian women, pregnant with daughters, reported incredible pressure by in-laws and husbands to produce sons and not daughters.
Many of the domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal.
Can you talk about the influence of home life on Asian women today?
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Ms Hutt also answered other questions on her priorities for Torfaen, enterprise zones and opportunities for Welsh Asian women.
"Most of our members are still at home, " said Sunita Mehta of the group Sakhi for South Asian Women.
These women found help through their religious faith, herbs, acupuncture, or becoming involved in groups that help other Asian women.
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His official approval (also by his own example) of intermarrying Greek men with Asian women finds no parallel outside of legend.
Much the same can be said of Asian women born in South-East Asia, a category that includes refugees from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Eighteen Asian women earned a spot on the list including American Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon Cosmetics, who is of Asian parentage.
The increasing presence of Asian women on our list reveals their growing dominance in fields as far flung as technology, finance and fashion design.
Some 55% of California's American-born Asian women have at least a bachelor's degree, and an impressive 84% of them either have jobs or are looking for them.
Yet it sometimes seems that Asian women who want to get on in politics would be well advised simply to marry a man with the same ambition.
According to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California, Asian women born in the United States outstrip all their sisters in terms of earning power.
She rejects comparisons with other famously named Asian women.
The study also discovered that West Asian women were more likely to have pre-eclampsia as were those from a lower social class and those with gestational diabetes - the type which occurs during pregnancy.
Nazir Afzal, chief prosecutor for the North West region, said while abuse is a problem for many women's groups - it can be much starker for South Asian women because they're seen as rejecting the power that men typically hold.
What did I learn after spending a gorgeous Saturday in all-day training sessions with 140 Asian American women hungry to sharpen their leadership skills?
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On May 3, Deputy Director Christina Lagdameo will speak at the National Association of Professional Asian American Women Training Conference ( www.napaw.org) at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Mr. Ma, who is a reporter, says he had dated both Asian and white women.
Clinton Tuesday at a Central Asian Conference on women in politics at her first stop in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Moved by that tragedy, Noh has spent much of her professional life studying depression and suicide among Asian-American women.
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"In my study, the model minority pressure is a huge factor, " says Noh, who studied 41 Asian-American women who'd attempted or contemplated suicide.
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An assistant professor of Asian-American studies at California State University at Fullerton, Noh has read the sobering statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services: Asian-American women ages 15-24 have the highest suicide rate of women in any race or ethnic group in that age group.
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It appeared more effective in Asian patients, in women and in patients who had never smoked.
"There are still low levels of awareness of the screening programme, breast cancer symptoms and risks amongst certain groups, particularly black, Asian and minority ethnic women, " a spokesperson said.
Her unlikely rise at a time when virtually no women, Asian Americans or persons of color were in corporate hierarchy made people want to know her recipe for success.
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Minorities and women shared the remainder with very few seats occupied by Asian Pacific Islanders, Hispanics or minority women in particular.
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