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In 1984 married women also obtained full legal equality in family law - prior to 1984 the law stipulated that the husband's opinion prevailed over the wife's regarding issues such as decisions on children's education and the domicile of the family. [27] [28] In 1985, Dutch women obtained the right to pass their nationality to their children. [29]
CARE's well-known "I am Powerful" campaign launched in the US in September 2006 and was intended to bring public attention to the organization's long-standing focus on women's empowerment. [19] CARE states that its programs focus on women and girls both because the world's poor are disproportionately female and because women's empowerment is ...
Because older men were generally less able to care for themselves than women, the city councils of the Netherlands built special purpose houses. After the introduction of Oudemannenhuizen, the hofjes were designed almost exclusively for women, because women could organize themselves more efficiently. For women who became too feeble to take part ...
Dutch Women's Council (Dutch: Nederlandse Vrouwen Raad (NVR)) was founded in 1898 as an umbrella organization to unite women's groups across the country in their struggles for economic, legal, political, and social rights. Initially their focus was not political, but expanded to encompass women's suffrage. After more than one hundred years of ...
Mercier was a pioneer, who inspired many Dutch women. A large number of women followed in her footsteps including Muller-Lulofs, who founded a children's home in Utrecht for after-school care in 1904, with the aim of providing children of working mothers with a safe and healthy home while the mothers were still working.
Women on Waves (WoW) is a Dutch nongovernmental organization created in 1999 by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, in order to bring reproductive health services, particularly non-surgical abortion services and education, to women in countries with restrictive abortion laws. [1]
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Third level care consists of highly specialised care such a nuclear treatment. Third level care is generally embedded in University Hospitals. [1] From 2012 to 2020, health care spending declined from 10.9 percent to 10.5 percent of GDP. [2]