Women & Power

1. Employment

1.1. 5/500 CEO's USA

1.2. Japan disemplyment after marriage

1.3. Earn 75% of men wage

2. Education

2.1. 76% Illiterate women

2.2. First woman for elections Mariana Diaz Flores

2.3. Work for education of children.

3. Religion

3.1. Catholic church don't accept women

3.2. Women ordination as a buddhist monks (china, tawian, vietnam, korea and tíbet)

3.3. Chatsu marn tries women ordination (thailand)

4. Funding

4.1. The new girl network

4.2. Hagit Glickman (website Mypsyche)

4.3. Womens Technology Cluster (1 MDD)

4.4. 38% women own businesses (2000)

5. Collective action

5.1. Self-employed Women Association

5.2. Ella Bhatt

5.3. Poor wage, no social security, expliotation, harrassment, self-employed women.

5.4. No recognition from government

5.5. -Form cooperatives, maternity-health benefits.

6. Reproductive health

6.1. Eka Esu-Williams

6.2. Nigeria 54% women with HIV

6.3. Society for Women and Aids in Africa

6.4. HIV

6.5. 1/3 of aids are related with pregnant, childbirth, abortion and reproductive tract infections.

6.6. In China women bear the control of fertiliy.

7. Legal Rights

7.1. Edna Mahureva lost its house and get in jail.

7.2. Zimbabwean law doesn't recgonize women's rights to own property.

7.3. Non-profit group called HelpAge

7.4. Laws are based in a traditional interpretation of religious texts.

8. Politics

8.1. Mary Robbinson

8.2. First female presidents of Ireland.

8.3. Interested in women's movement

8.4. Work to legalize the availability of contraceptives.

8.5. 11 women head over 180 countries.

8.6. Sweden became the first country 50%-50%