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  2. Women's World Banking - Wikipedia

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    Women's World Banking is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to women's economic empowerment through financial inclusion. Mission and vision [ edit ] The mission of the Women's World Banking global network is "to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial ...

  3. Women in cooperatives - Wikipedia

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    Women's absence in land ownership on a large scale has also prevented their involvement in many agricultural cooperatives. Women's lack of access to finance, due to a variety of factors such as absence of collateral and negotiating power, is one of the main barriers to improving the productive capacity of women workers.

  4. World Conference on Women, 1995 - Wikipedia

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    Human rights of women diagnosis. Strategic objective I.1. Promote and protect the human rights of women, through the full implementation of all human rights instruments, especially the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Actions to be taken. Strategic objective I.2.

  5. Building financial independence for women through ... - AOL

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    Savings: When it comes to saving money, women put away less than half the amount men saved in 2022, with women saving an average of $3,146, compared to the $7,007 saved by men, according to New ...

  6. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Feminism. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the ...

  7. Women and the environment - Wikipedia

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    Women give greater priority to protection of and improving the capacity of nature, maintaining farming lands, and caring for nature and environment's future. [65] Repeated studies have shown that women have a stake in environment, and this stake is reflected in the degree to which they care about natural resources.

  8. Gender and development - Wikipedia

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    Gender and development. Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.

  9. Self-help group (finance) - Wikipedia

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    A self-help group (commonly abbreviated SHG) is a financial intermediary committee usually composed of 12 to 25 local women between the ages of 18 and 50. Most self-help groups are in India, though they can be found in other countries, especially in South Asia and Southeast Asia. A SHG is generally a group of people who work on daily wages who ...