"A Powerful Noise" Movie

*Women work 67% of the world’s working hrs, yet earn 10% of the income.

*Women produce 50% the world’s food, yet own only 1% of its land.

*Women make up 67% of the estimated 876 million adults worldwide who cannot read or write; and girls make up 67% of 77 million children not attending school.

Resources www.apowerfulnoise.org/resources.html
*The United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA) website is a rich source of information on the links between health, human rights and gender equity. See www.unfpa.org, particularly the "Issues" and "Publications" sections.

*The United Nations' website contains a portal called "The UN Works for Women" with, among many others, links to information on equity in global education and on violence against women. See www.un.org/works/

*Detailed statistics on the state of women in the world can be found at the United Nations' website http://unstats.un.org

*The Millennium Campaign website provides a wide array of information on global poverty, and the issues behind each of the eight goals to halve poverty by the year 2015. See www.endpoverty2015.org, and see especially Goal #3 (Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women).

*A CARE white paper examines underlying causes of poverty, specifically the marginalization of women and girls. Click here to read www.care.org/?source=170860360000/newsroom/publications/whitepapers/index.asp

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Support equal pay for women at Your workplace!
This law was signed on Jan 29, 2009. Here's our chance!

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act 2/29/2009 5:03sec

"Women across this country still earning just 78 cents for every dollar men earn."

As Americans we are all in some way responsible for what America does. In Jan 2009 America chose to start treating a Woman's hours worth of work equal to a Man's. I believe the relationship environment of our country has also changed spiritually, energetically, etc. Our male - female relationships no longer have the "baggage" of this inequality undermining us. Steps like these subtlety help all of us in one fell swoop.

Raise your children as equals, promote the equal balance of masculine an feminine in our selves and our world. Here's a fun story that describes men and women files.meetup.com/373320/A%20Story.pdf

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm1Xb2jBHSk uncut version 10:47sec
"we will make sure our daughters have the same rights, the same chances and the same freedoms to pursue their dreams as our sons"