The answer may have something to do not with the status of women but with the status of books.
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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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.
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.
The ruling by the House of Lords will be of significance to other women seeking refugee status because of persecution based on their sex.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is because improving the status of women is crucial to tackling the very inequalities that it is suggested the new goals should focus on.
Roosevelt as the head of a new commission to look at the status of women in America, and the unfairness they routinely faced in their lives.
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Its comparatively high levels of education, relatively advanced social conditions, including the status of women, and a small, apolitical army, seemed to augur well for Tunisia's historic path.
Around the world, many heads of state know now that in order to further the economic well-being of their countries, the dialogue must include the status of women.
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Norms and values in most societies are still far from being gender neutral and the status of women in general is not yet equal to that of men.
The Forum has been established by UNESCO as part of its programme in favour of promoting the human rights and the status of women living in the region.
Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Falkner of Margravine called for the appointment of "an individual to report on the status of women's rights in Afghanistan until the transition is complete".
Bachelet, who was Chile's first woman president, ended a speech at the closing session of a two-week meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women on a personal note.
In the last century of so, the social and economic status of women has changed, they have come to achieve a more equal situation with men in most modern societies.
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This month, the English language debut of the European bestseller by French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, "The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, " is already causing a stir.
President Obama has made promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls central to our foreign policy and national security strategy, including by leading by example at home.
Susan Rose served for eight years on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and is the former executive director of the Los Angeles City Commission on the Status of Women.
The second event, hosted by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women, focused on effective prevention and responses to intimate partner violence.
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