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  2. Feminization of poverty - Wikipedia

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    Feminization of poverty refers to a trend of increasing inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender gap in poverty.This phenomenon largely links to how women and children are disproportionately represented within the lower socioeconomic status community in comparison to men within the same socioeconomic status. [1]

  3. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Women will be less likely to be selected to lead and be involved in politics to make decisions. [27] Women have been unable to become leaders in their communities due to financial, social and legal constraints. [27] [28] Organizational and cultural limitations also affect women in the fields where men are dominant. Those industries include ...

  4. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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    Women had religious authority and were active as priestesses (gydja) and oracles (sejdkvinna); [87] within art as poets (skalder) [87] and rune masters; and as merchants and medicine women. [87] They may also have been active within military office: the stories about shieldmaidens are unconfirmed, but some archaeological finds such as the Birka ...

  5. 270 Reasons Women Choose Not To Have Children - The ...

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    The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.

  6. Fourth-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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    One of the main critiques of past waves of feminism has been the centrality and privileging of the voices of middle class white women in the movement. The concept of intersectionality originates in black feminism throughout the 20th century and the specific term's coinage is attributed to Kimberle Williams Crenshaw in 1991.

  7. "For me, one of the most interesting things about looking through old fairy tales has been looking at the ways women were depicted back then, and how a lot of things actually haven't changed," Sparks said. "We still have these almost medieval notions about women at times, with our control over them and their bodies."

  8. 7 things science says women do better than men - AOL

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    As women have 2 of them to men's 1, they are better able to distinguish both red's variations and how that hue interacts with the other colors. SEE ALSO: A Bill Nye show is coming to Netflix Number 6.

  9. Gender equality - Wikipedia

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    Excessive gender neutrality can worsen the situation of women, because the law assumes women are in the same position as men, ignoring the biological fact that in the process of reproduction and pregnancy there is no 'equality', and that apart from physical differences there are socially constructed limitations which assign a socially and ...