According to World Bank's new report, There are about to 40 lakh missing poor women in developing countries each year. In India accounts for 10 lakh of these women. Nearly two-fifths of girls are never born, one-fifth goes missing in infancy and childhood, and the remaining two-fifths do so between the ages 15 and 59.”
World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development ..!
# Globally, women represent more than 40% of the workforce, 43% of the agricultural workforce, and more than half of the world's university students.
# For an economy to be functioning at its potential, women's skills and talent should be engaged in activities that make the best use of those abilities.
# Strengthening land and ownership rights for women, providing child care either “directly by the state or through private sector, possible with public subsidies and regulation,” having parental leave policies in place, improvement in infrastructure facilities such as drinking water and electricity to reduce the time spent on domestic chores etc.
# Countries such as India need to check the abuse of new technologies for sex-selective abortions such as cheap mobile ultra-sound clinics despite laws against such practices.
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