Extracts from Critical Issues on the Status of Women Employment, Health, Education*

Suggested Priorities for Action, 1997

Immediate Action to Counteract the National Neglect of Women: Health, Education and Employment

Since 1975 the ICSSR has sponsored a good deal of research on the life and problems of women and on the factors contributing to changes in their status and conditions. This research has revealed an alarming trend of continued deterioration in both their conditions and status; and even more disturbing is the fact that the process of deterioration has accelerated in the last three decades. Independence brought the promise of equality of opportunity in all spheres to the women of this country; and laws guaranteeing them equal rights ...

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