Direct Link to Full 12-Slide 2017 POWER POINT:
http://www.popcouncil.org/uploads/pdfs/2017RH_SOTASynthesisFGM_preso.pdf
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, "Women in the Changing World of Work," speaks directly to the challenge women have in participating fully in the economy. From issues of equal pay to ownership, women are making strides but still have far to go. Women’s participation in co-op businesses—as farmers, leaders of financial institutions, innovators and community organizers—are the exact reasons why co-ops provide a better business platform for women. With equal voice in democratic governance and opportunities to own the businesses they work in, co-ops are the business model women should look at in a changing world of work.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly). Nominal GDP estimates are commonly used to determine the economic performance of a whole country or region, and to make international comparisons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2nkr9q0VU
SEX.LIES, & GLOBAL ECONOMICS - WHO’s COUNTING? – BOOK & FILM – MARILYN WARING
Many of us remember when this film was released, showing the realities for women of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) system for a nation’s growth, wealth, and productivity. Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value.
Saturday June 17th – New York City- Support the UN in Adopting a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Women Ban the Bomb is a women-led initiative building on the momentum of movements at the forefront of the resistance, including the Women’s March on Washington. It will bring together people of all genders, sexual orientations, ages, races, abilities, nationalities, cultures, faiths, political affiliations and backgrounds to rally and march on Saturday, June 17th 2017 in New York City and around the world in support of negotiations taking place at the United Nations for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
https://www.womenbanthebomb.org/
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“Women were worse off in all EU countries except Spain, where men were at higher risk of poverty or social exclusion, and Poland, where the risk was the same for women and men. In 2014, the gender gaps were highest in the Baltic States, the Czech Republic, and Austria (3.8 percentage points in Latvia, 3.3 percentage points in Lithuania, 3.0 percentage points in the Czech Republic and 2.8 percentage points in Estonia, Cyprus, and Austria). Poland was the most egalitarian country in terms of poverty rates, with no gender gap, followed by Denmark with a gender gap of 0.5 percentage points. The gender gap narrowed in most EU countries between 2008 and 2014, except for the Netherlands and Sweden, where it increased by 0.2 percentage points each.”
