Issue 056 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

October 1977

Women hold up half the sky

Women's rights are human rights and despite Western women's liberation movements making great strides, poor and marginalized women in the Third World are still losing out - at home, in education, in work and in health.

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