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Gender Equality the Worst in Asia-Pacific Region

by Trilok on March 09, 2010 at 12:46 PM General Health News

The vibrant economic transformation in recent decades in Asia and the Pacific regions, though a case of pride, has not translated into progress on gender equality.

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Discrimination and neglect are threatening women,s very survival in the Asia-Pacific region, where women suffer from some of the world's lowest rates of political representation, employment and property ownership. Their lack of participation is also depressing economic growth.

Those were some of the findings of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-sponsored 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report launched today.

"Empowering women is vital for achieving development goals overall, and for boosting economic growth and sustainable development," said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, in presenting the Report: Power, Voice and Rights: A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific, here today. "Policy needs to advance gender equality, so that women as well as men can benefit from job creation and investments in social infrastructure."

The Report focuses on three key areas -economic power, political decision-making and legal rights? to analyze what holds women back, and how policies and attitudes can be changed to foster a climb toward gender equality. Asia, the Report asserts, is standing at a cross-road and by putting the right policies in place now, countries in the region can achieve positive change.

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