Newsletter No. 147

         Gdañsk 2006-10-29 (Newsletter No. 147)

                        Women Still Earn Less than Men
                         Italy's working women earn about three quarters of
what men earn on average, according to new statistics from ISFOL, the
government-funded research institute.

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                        Estonia's Total Fertility Rate Increasing
                         Estonia's total fertility rate has increased to an
average of 1.5 children per woman from an average of 1.3 children per woman
in the late 1990s, which could be the result of a government initiative
aimed at sustaining the nation's population by providing women who have
children with monthly stipends, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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                        Website for Busy Professionals
                         Have you visited www.womenworking.com yet? With a
growing member network of diverse entrepreneurial and corporate women, it is
one of the premier websites for busy professionals.

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                        One Man Fight
                         Stop violence against women - short film by Amnesty
International.

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                        Media About Us...
                         EU GENDER WATCH - Project implemented by the
Network of East-West Women, funded by the Presidency Fund - described at
WOMEN'S UN REPORT NETWORK (WUNRN) web site.

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                        Darfur Drawn
                         On mission along the border of Chad and Darfur,
Human Rights Watch researchers gave children notebooks and crayons to keep
them occupied while they spoke with the children's parents.

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                        Impact of Family Obligations
                         During the heyday of the women's movement more than
30 years ago, "59 cents on the dollar" was an oft-heard rallying cry,
referring to how little women earned compared with men.

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                        Round-Table and Training Seminar
                         "Setting Up Strategies for Strengthening Gender
Integration in Water Management" (Contribution to D.6-3.1a, M. 6.3-1),
Tuesday 7 November - Wednesday 8 November 2006, Location: Qubus Hotel
Prestige Katowice, ul. Uniwersytecka 13 40-007 Katowice.

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                        Vacancy at the Fair Trade
                         IFAT, EFTA, FLO and NEWS! are seeking a policy
officer to support the Fair Trade Advocacy Coordinator in the implementation
of the common advocacy strategy of the international Fair Trade movement.

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                        Implemenation of EC Aid to Developing
                         In 2005, Europe made major political and financial
promises to the developing world. This has been perceived as very positive
in both Europe and the rest of the world. It is now the time for the EU to
deliver.

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                        International Conference on Domestic Violence
                         The Women's Rights Center in Armenia, the
Secretariat of the International Consortium for Domestic Violence, has the
pleasure to announce about the organization of the Second International
Conference on Domestic Violence, which will take place in Yerevan, Armenia,
on December 4-6, 2006.

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                        Women in the Knowledge Economy
                         In 1929 Virginia Woolf predicted that women "in
another century or so," if given the opportunity and rooms of their own,
will "have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we
think," seeing human beings "in their relation to each other" and "in
relation to reality."

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                        The Female Thing
                         "I was talking with my therapist today," my
girlfriend tells me. "I deny myself pleasure," she says, with wistful
resignation.

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                        Leadership Training Handbook for Women
                         The Leading to Choices manual is used to train
diverse groups of women and girls in the practice of inclusive,
participatory, and horizontal leadership. The goal is to empower women to
take on leadership roles in their families, communities, and societies.

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                                Malgorzata Tarasiewicz NEWW/NEWW-Polska
Director

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      This newsletter is prepared by NEWW - Polska, an independent Polish
association that promotes gender equality, develops and implements projects
for the advancement of women in the region of CEE/CIS.

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