> ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT
>
> --Women comprise 70% of the world's poorest citizens.
> --Women represent about 60% of the billion people earning $1 or less a
day.
> --Women's yearly unwaged economic contribution comes to at least $11
> trillion.  This unpaid labor is done in the home, on the land, in family
> businesses, in places of worship, in neighborhoods, villages, towns, and
> cities.
> --80% of Third World workers who manufacture products for exports are
women.  They work up to 80 hours a week for as little as 18 cents an
hour.
> --In Africa, women and girls grow 80% of the food consumed on the
continent.
> --Two-thirds of all part-time workers and 60% of all temporary workers are
> women.
> --Women hold less than 5% of positions of power in determining global
> economic policy.
> --Women own an estimated 1% of global property.
> --Each day, some 34,000 children die for want of food and medical care.
>
>             [from Global Women's Strike,   March 8, 2000]
>
>             [I highly recommend the book, "If Women Counted: A New
>
>     Feminist Economics" by Marily Waring. --dd;   "A splended
>
> work....No concerned woman (or man) can ignore it."   --John
> Kenneth Galbraith]
>

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