Some also think the statistics could reflect a migration of healthier women out of rural areas, leaving behind others who are too poor and unhealthy to relocate.
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In eight African countries, over nine out of ten young women in rural areas have not completed lower secondary school.
People loved it and it taught a lot of people about HIV and AIDS, especially the youth and of course the women in the rural areas.
But it can be rare for women to press charges of rape - especially in rural areas like Nagina where tradition and caste govern life.
In addition, the CREED initiative aims to provide alternatives for rural areas where women and children shoulder the burden of collecting firewood and wood burning.
Their creation is a communal enterprise led by older women in rural, mountainous areas, but the tradition is in danger of disappearing.
Most of its residents are migrants who have come to Delhi from impoverished rural areas, widely seen as the cradle of regressive attitudes to women, where figures show rapes are commonplace but rarely reported because of the social stigma.
She left a lucrative career in investment banking to found the Future of the African Daughter Project, an organization that lifts up young women in rural and township areas.
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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?
Of the 1 083 935 illiterate people, 688 803 were women and 760 432 lived in rural areas.
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From its early days, the Post Office employed women often as sub-postmistresses, running post offices as part of their business, or as postwomen, particularly in rural areas when men were not available.
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