Rural women play a fundamental role in rural communities around the world providing care and being involved in number of economic pursuits such as subsistence...

Women's Institutes (SWI) is a Scottish member-led organisation which is informally called "the Rural", after its original name Scottish Women's Rural...

rural women. In 1992, at the invitation of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, she attended the First Ladies Summit for the Economic Advancement of Rural Women...

International Day of Rural Women was implemented by the United Nations General Assembly, and is celebrated every year on October 15, with the aim of highlighting...

concentrated in population centers. Rural communities also face disadvantages in terms of legal and social protections, with women and marginalized communities...

at least one member of every Indian rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Women are guaranteed one third of the jobs...

inclusion of women within Communist Party leadership, although few women have reached the highest positions within the Party.: 62  Rural women had a significant...

surveys conducted by the Public Opinion Centre, 64% of urban and 50% of rural women consider that men have greater opportunities for implementing their rights...

Rural Women Energy Security (RUWES) is a project of the Renewable Energy Programme, launched by the Ministry of Environment on December 10, 2013. The...

Zimbabwe, to improve rural women's employment and economic empowerment, Kenya, to improve access to financial services in rural areas, and Nepal and India...

Directorate for Food and Rural Infrastructure and women organizations about economic and social constraints affecting rural women. In 1986, she visited two...

agriculture, fisheries, cooperatives, rural crafts, adult literacy, health and family planning, vocational training for women and the construction of community...

Pakistan on 2 December 1988. The status of women in Pakistan varies across classes, regions and the rural/urban divide due to socioeconomic differences...

the WI through the Associated Country Women of the World: the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes and the Women's Institutes of Northern Ireland. Each individual...

Superintendent of Alberta Women's Institute, who revived the idea. She realized the importance of organizing the rural women of Canada so they might speak...

concentrated in population centers. Rural communities also face disadvantages in terms of legal and social protections, with women and marginalized communities...

Institute for Rural Women in Indore is a Baháʼí inspired, though independent residential vocational education school providing programs for women in the vicinity...

abortion. According to FAO, there are seven success factors to empowering rural women through ICTs: Adapt content so that it is meaningful for them. Create...

dramatically different from the life of women of minority groups like the Bashkirs and the life of a woman from a lower-class rural family can be different from...

the rates of violence are particularly high among poor, rural women, one third of the women in the highest economic brackets have also been subject to...

the NABARD- SDC Rural Innovations Programme. These programs aim to address various challenges faced by rural communities in India. Women World Banking:...

Movement of Rural Women (NMRW) is a nonprofit, grassroots organization founded in South Africa in 1990. It was formerly known as the Rural Women's Movement...

rural women had to do heavy manual labor and, at the same time, took housework responsibilities. The party forcefully transformed rural women into productive...

people are urbanite and the remaining 78% live in rural areas. As part of local tradition, most women are married soon after completing high school. Many...

Wyman, Andrea. Rural women teachers in the United States (1997) online European Society for Rural Sociology Rural Sociological Society Rural Sociology back...

Women in the Philippines (Filipino: Kababaihan sa Pilipinas) may also be known as Filipinas or Filipino women. Their role includes the context of Filipino...

additionally acts as a meeting point for poor, Indian women who are regularly marginalized across rural landscapes and isolated to urban slums. The model...

The Chinese rural left behind women have emerged along with the rural population who has migrated in the country called internal migration after Chinese...

social rights of women, particularly focusing on education, employment, and health. Part III also includes special protections for rural women and the problems...

upper-class and urban women dropped the practice sooner than poorer rural women. By 2007, only a handful of elderly Chinese women whose feet had been bound...