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Solutions Research: __Women Empowerment:__ **Source Citation** "New report shows cultural sensitivity, critical to successful development strategies, womens qualities." //PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association// 18 Nov. 2008. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA189078139&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
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 * 1) Careful approaches to the development and to the rise of human rights, and womens rights.

**Source Citation** "Mind your business." //Herizons// Winter 2011: 10+. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 7 Dec. 2011. []
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 * 1) Investors managing over $73 billion US called on companies to increase the likeness of women on boards of directors and in management.
 * 2) In Canada 21 of the top 1,000 companies have female CEOs which is two percent. In the United States, three percent of the top 1,000 companies have female chief executive officers.
 * 3) Some European countries have legislation have put down that a minimum of 30% to 40% of the board members of publicly traded companies must be women.
 * 4) The new combination asked about 54 selected companies to improve the gender balance with in their organizations.
 * 5)  Women make up more than half the United States workforce.

**Source Citation** "Sexual harassment bill tabled in LS." //DNA// [Daily News & Analysis] 8 Dec. 2010. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 7 Dec. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA243769798&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
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 * 1) The government has brought the protection of women against sexual harassment at work in 2010.
 * 2) The legislation protects women from any moves, gestures and words by men at their work.
 * 3) It doesn't only protect women from their male colleagues but also from people coming into contact with them at work.

**Source Citation** "Summary of status and trends." //World Health Statistics 2009//. World Health Organization, 2009. 10. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 7 Dec. 2011. []
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 * 1) Every year about 536,000 women die from complications during pregnancy or during childbirth pretty much 99% of them happened in developing countries

__ Feminism: __ **Source Citation** "Feminism." //Current Issues//: //Macmillian Social Science Library//. Detroit: Gale, 2010. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 11 Dec. 2011. []
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 * 1) The first wave of feminism had concerned with achieving basic political rights, like the right to vote the right to vote.
 * 2) Women wanted to be educated.
 * 3) The women's aims were occupied with suffrage.
 * 4) The second wave of feminism began in the 1960s.
 * 5) The second wave was mainly tied to the civil rights movement.
 * 6) Women's rights began to call for a rethinking of the role of women in the society.
 * 7) The history of feminism in the U.S shouldn't only focus on education.
 * 8) Many of the lower income women worked of the home wether it was a part-time or full-time job.
 * 9) The second wave did not bring any important gains for women.
 * 10) However, the second wave provided equal pay, equal educational opportunities, even in sports.
 * 11) The third wave started in the early 1990s.
 * 12) Alice Walker is the women who founded the Third Wave Direct Action Corporation in the year 1992.
 * 13) This nonprofit organization wanted to find new and advanced ideas for feminism.