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    This document discusses empowering women and reducing poverty. It notes that women bear most responsibility for family needs but lack resources and agency. 70% of the world's poor are women. Women work two-thirds of hours but this work is unpaid and seen as low status. Women only earn 10% of income and own less than 1% of property. They also lack education at disproportionate rates. Empowering women through education, income opportunities, and property rights would lift families and nations out of poverty while developing human potential.

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    This document discusses empowering women and reducing poverty. It notes that women bear most responsibility for family needs but lack resources and agency. 70% of the world's poor are women. Women work two-thirds of hours but this work is unpaid and seen as low status. Women only earn 10% of income and own less than 1% of property. They also lack education at disproportionate rates. Empowering women through education, income opportunities, and property rights would lift families and nations out of poverty while developing human potential.

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    This document discusses empowering women and reducing poverty. It notes that women bear most responsibility for family needs but lack resources and agency. 70% of the world's poor are women. Women work two-thirds of hours but this work is unpaid and seen as low status. Women only earn 10% of income and own less than 1% of property. They also lack education at disproportionate rates. Empowering women through education, income opportunities, and property rights would lift families and nations out of poverty while developing human potential.

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    This document discusses empowering women and reducing poverty. It notes that women bear most responsibility for family needs but lack resources and agency. 70% of the world's poor are women. Women work two-thirds of hours but this work is unpaid and seen as low status. Women only earn 10% of income and own less than 1% of property. They also lack education at disproportionate rates. Empowering women through education, income opportunities, and property rights would lift families and nations out of poverty while developing human potential.

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    University of Tirana

    Faculty of Social Sciences


    Department of Psychology and Pedagogy
    Psychology 1, Group A

    Topic: Empowerment of Women

    Subject: English

    Student: Anisa Zaçe


    Women bear almost all responsibility for meeting basic needs of the family, yet are
    systematically denied the resources, information and freedom of action they need to
    fulfill this responsibility.
    Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are
    women. For these
    women, poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied,
    opportunities curtailed and
    voices silenced. Consider the following:
    • Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, according to the United Nations
    Millennium Campaign to
    halve world poverty by the year 2015. The overwhelming majority of the labor that
    sustains life – growing
    food, cooking, raising children, caring for the elderly, maintaining a house, hauling water
    – is done by women,
    and universally this work is accorded low status and no pay. The ceaseless cycle of labor
    rarely shows up in
    economic analyses of a society’s production and value.
    • Women earn only 10 percent of the world’s income. Where women work for money,
    they may be limited to a set
    of jobs deemed suitable for women – invariably low-pay, low-status positions.
    • Women own less than 1 percent of the world’s property. Where laws or customs
    prevent women from owning
    land or other productive assets, from getting loans or credit, or from having the right to
    inheritance or to own
    their home, they have no assets to leverage for economic stability and cannot invest in
    their own or their
    children’s futures.
    • Women make up two-thirds of the estimated 876 million adults worldwide who cannot
    read or write; and girls make up
    60 percent of the 77 million children not attending primary school. Education is among
    the most important
    drivers of human development: women who are educated have fewer children than those
    who are denied
    schooling (some studies correlate each additional year of education with a 10 percent
    drop in fertility). They delay their first pregnancies, have healthier children (each
    additional year of schooling a woman has is associated with a 5 to 10 percent decline in
    child deaths, according to the United Nations Population Fund) and are far more likely to
    send their own children to school. Yet where women do not have the discretionary
    income to invest in their own or their children’s education, where girls’ education is
    considered frivolous, and where girls are relied on to contribute labor to the household,
    they miss this unparalleled opportunity to develop their minds and spirits. Their
    countries suffer too: the World Bank estimates that nations in South Asia and Africa
    lose .5 to 1 percent growth in per-capita income per year compared to similar countries
    where children have greater access to quality, basic education.
    So, as it is said above in the major cases women are not considered as a great opportunity
    to be successful in politics or other fields. In world’s politics there are not a lot of
    women. What a lot of women don’t understand is that they think they ought behave like
    men,when it’s exactly the opposite. What politics need is for women with their
    femaleness. They have to bring in the politics and in all the fields their power. A woman
    is the most important thing of a family. Women are those who maintain morally and
    emotionally a family. That’s the thing she must also bring to the politics, to the state. The
    women that we know are countable, we can mention: Condoleezza Rice, Hilary Clinton,
    Madeleine Albright, Angela Merkel, Tania Fajon etc.
    Woman means life. They provide the continuity of life, and that’s the spirit thay should
    bring to politics, the spirit of continuity, of life.
    Together we can rule the world!

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