Mapping progress and challenges for women’s empowerment in the Global South
This mapping of patterns and trends in the Global South reveals that some progress has been made in terms of declining maternal mortality rates, increasing educational access and literacy for women, and increasing participation in the labour force by women. However, there are also immense c...
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
2012
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3518/1/7.geografia-jan%25202012-margareta-global%2520south-edited%252028.1.12-1.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3518/ http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/geografia/v1/index.php |
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| Summary: | This mapping of patterns and trends in the Global South reveals that some progress has been made in terms of
declining maternal mortality rates, increasing educational access and literacy for women, and increasing
participation in the labour force by women. However, there are also immense challenges to be faced such as
HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, and the feminisation of poverty that are affecting more women. Additionally, the
regionalised spatial variations that can be observed when mapping and reviewing gender-differentiated quality of
life indicators show that the reality faced by women in the Global South is uneven with respect to sex ratio, life
expectancy at birth, international migration, fertility rate, infant mortality , literacy, labour force participation, HIV/
AIDS infection, parliamentary presence, and the Global Gender Gap. The overriding implication is that for there to
be progress towards women’s empowerment in the Global South recognition of the possibility, continuing
demanding and pressing for change, and working towards it, are critical to the whole process. |
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