Word: heyzer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developing countries, women are especially affected by the brunt of poverty, Heyzer said. In addition to shouldering the bulk of the burden for keeping their families fed and clothed, she said, women are consistently short-changed in the distribution of the scarce resources which they themselves gather...
Governments and markets support a structure which allocates resources unequally to women, according to Heyzer. In South Korea, one of the world's fastest developing countries, women receive only 60 percent of male wages, she said...
...poorer countries, burdens of debt and structural adjustments fall heavily on women, Heyzer said. Structural adjustments which are often a condition for international loans or debt-restructuring usually entail the reduction of food subsidies, health services and formalized work for women, she said...
Because females in African and Asian societies are already at the bottom of the heap in the gender hierarchy, the effects of such cuts are felt more acutely by women, Heyzer said...
...told the audience that in times of deprivation and war, women lose their access to food, health care and education before men do. Women are even disadvantaged before birth, Heyzer said, because in some societies, 100percent of aborted fetuses are female...