Word: heyzer
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...face of the bleak picture she painted,Heyzer at the same time emphasized the power whichgovernments can wield in achieving "genderjustice." The Malaysian government, Heyzer said,significantly improved the lives of females bydeveloping a policy to educate rural women. Whenwomen migrated to urban centers, she said, theirskills and education allowed them to be easilyintegrated into the formal workforce...
...contrast, Heyzer said, the government ofThailand focused on growth in the central plains,relying on a trickle effect to rural areas. Theresult, she said, was that when migration to bigcities occurred, women had no avenues of entryinto the formal workforce, but were instead forcedto take up "casual" work, usually prostitution...
Other countries should follow the Malaysianexample, Heyzer said. But for this to happen, shesaid, women must continue to apply pressure togovernments, non-governmental agencies andfinancial markets to take into account the effectsof their policies upon women...
...Heyzer's speech kicked off the women'sconference titled "Toward Beijing: Priorities`95", which begins today. The conference willfocus on the agenda of the United Nations FourthWorld Conference on Women to be held in thePeople's Republic of China later this year...
...Heyzer gave her speech as this year's RamaMehta lecturer. The annual lecture, named afterIndian diplomat and writer Mehta, was endowed byJohn Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor ofeconomics emeritus, and his wife Catherine AtwaterGalbraith, who coauthored a book with the lateMehta