Women and sustainable development

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Women and sustainable development

• Women and environment
• Women in rural communities
• Women in urban setting

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Poverty has a womens face

• Out of 1.3 billion people living in poverty, 70
  percent are women.
• women have a higher incidence of poverty then
  men
• womens poverty is more severe that than of men
• there is a trend to greater poverty among women,
  particularly associated with rising rates of
  female headship of household
• Governance does not always lead to poverty
  reduction
• Due to the gendered nature of institutions
  themselves better governance does not always lead
  to improved female status (private sphere of
  political and social institutions)
• more constrained and weaker entitlements
• more frequent entitlement failure, or lower
  returns from translating entitlements and
  endowments into capabilities
• a lesser degree of choice over determining
  capabilities

3
Women and environment

• Environmental security and sustainable
  development
• Ecofeminism
• Gendered nature of resources (land, capital,
  labor)
• Natural hazards and impact on women

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Women in rural areas

• Changes in technology and gender roles in
  productions
• Division of labor in rural societies
• Human capital and new labor opportunities
• Impact of agricultural modernization on women
• Land reform
• Capitalist penetration
• Commercialization
• Mechanization

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Women in urban centers

• Migration in urban centers
• Marginalization in employment
• Informal sector
• Separation between domestic and public
• Gender division of labor
• Feminization of poverty