Arun Arushi Narodin, who writes for the online magazine Bodhi Commons, reports that 90% of urban women in India experience harassment.
Urban women in India are spending more on looking good, signing up for aerobics, skin treatment, silicon implants and even those nose or jaw jobs that, at times, end in disaster.
That their launches this week seem so similar could be a testament to the fact that the holidays are approaching and the whole world becomes nostalgic at this time of the year or (and this is possibly the more likely explanation) it could have more to do that the founders of both companies are twenty something urban women.
In 1950, the average age for urban Chinese women to marry for the first time was just under 20.
Skills strategies must target the disadvantaged: particularly young women and urban and rural poor.
Women in urban areas have equal employment opportunities and no longer need to depend on their parents.
Rahim Kanani: Thus far, having led the effort to serve over 47, 000 women in urban and rural areas as they rebuild their lives, what have been some of the key challenges to implementing the programs and services you mentioned?
Peru will also promote the financial inclusion of women through rural and urban financial education schemes, as well as through enhanced access to additional financial services and instruments for women using existing social programs.
Furthermore, GMI found that a number of prominent companies including Nintendo, Under Armour, and Urban Outfitters have not appointed any women to their boards.
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In urban Bolivia, for example, women are much more likely to be self-employed in the informal sector with no legal status, regulations or standard work conditions and low pay.
Illiteracy rates in rural areas are almost twice as high as in urban areas, and higher still among women.
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Urban refugees need more attention, and women and girls need better protection.
To many young women, particularly in the urban middle class, the high-profile global beauty contests are keys to a more liberal environment as well as new opportunities.
These young people, especially women and the rural and urban poor, are not equipped to join the ambitions of many African countries to achieve middle income status in the coming years.
These young people, especially women and the rural and urban poor, are not equipped to join in on the ambitions in some Asian countries for building strong IT and knowledge based economies.
Urban Outfitters says its Terrain garden centers target women ranging from their mid-40s to mid-60s.
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But, there are many smaller communities across the country that have advantageous locations or something unique about them (i.e. major university located there, name medical complex located there, significant clean industry in the city, highly educated population base without being a large urban complex) that offer attractive locations for women to look at when starting a business.
Although Facebook has received a lot of positive attention for its inclusion of a woman, Sheryl Sandberg, as its Chief Operating Officer, the company has not appointed a single female candidate to its board, a characteristic that makes it a lot like other major U.S. companies that have zero women on their boards such as Urban Outfitters, Under Armour, and Zale, the diamond company.
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It is hard to believe that amid this urban squalor, a young entrepreneur is changing the lives of women in Nepal.
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And the President sincerely hopes that that support, which comes from around the country, that comes from Democrats and Republicans, that comes from NRA members, sportsmen and women, from suburban areas, rural areas and urban areas, will result in Congress taking appropriate action.
Danielle had inherited our mom's panache: an urban brand of beauty that turned men's heads and intimidated other women.
Given that both female educational attainment and, in many urban centers, young female earnings best that of young men, young women are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to chasing their aspirations.
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After analysing different sub-groups of bus pass holders, the study found that women over the age of 70 and living in London or in urban areas were significantly more likely to use buses and walk three or more times a week than those without bus passes.
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In 2006, a national illiteracy survey in Morocco put the rate at 38.5%, with a rate of 46.8% for women, 31.4% for men, 27.2% in urban areas and 54.4% in rural areas.
Covers are improving, but strong women in chainmail bikinis and tight clothing regularly appear in comics and subgenres such as urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
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The cutting urban hip-hop of the 1980s she found ugly, like listening to her brothers boast of the women they'd laid.
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