World Population Day 2009 - Educate Girls

Investing in Women is a Smart Choice

No one knows yet what the full scale of this global economic crisis will look like. We do know that women and children in developing countries will bear the brunt of the impact. What started as a financial crisis in rich countries is now deepening into a global economic crisis that is hitting developing countries hard. It is already affecting progress toward reducing poverty.

Policy responses that build on women's roles as economic agents can do a lot to mitigate the effects of the crisis on development, especially because women, more than men, invest their earnings in the health and education of their children. Investments in public health, education, child care and other social services help mitigate the impact of the crisis on the entire family and raise productivity for a healthier economy.

Protect the gains achieved

Investments in education and health for women and girls have been linked to increases in productivity, agricultural yields, and national income — all of which contribute to the achievement of the MDGs. Investments by governments worldwide have raised school enrolment rates, narrowed the gender gap in education, brought life-saving drugs to people living with AIDS, expanded HIV prevention, delivered bed nets to prevent malaria, and improved child health through immunization.

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[urlove12day]

and let the women be abused

why?

your sick

[nespa45]

ADIEMUS - ADIEMUS

[TheSharpenedPen]

Ya, force feminism on the poor people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa. Deny their men jobs in factories, and set up programs for women only. Destroy the family unit the same way you have here in the west, with quotas, and preference. Then their populations will drop like a stone - as ours in the west have.

I pray that the Iranians, Pakistanis and others, will have the foresight not to go down the disasterous road to killer kids and broken homes that we have.