Women in MalawiThe Beyond Inequalities series presents the situation of women and men in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a region, and in each member country; and reviews the roles and responsibilities, access to and control over resources, decision-making powers, needs and constraints of women vis-a-vis men. The series is forward looking, based on an assessment that inequalities are now generally acknowledged as an impediment to development and economic growth in most countries and regions of the world. The twelve country profiles document and analyse information along themes drawn from the Critical Areas of Concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action and derived from what the countries of the region consider to be priorities. Each profile is in three parts: Situation Analysis, Policies and Programmes, and the Way Forward, and each has references, bibliography, appendices, and illustrative tables, figures and boxes. |
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abortion activities Advancement of Women agricultural Bakili Muluzi Beijing Blantyre Cammack CCAM Centre for Social Community Conference on Women cultural decision-making E-Mail economic empowerment ensure estates farm female Food Security fuelwood gender equality gender issues GOM/UNICEF Government of Malawi grammes Harare hectare HIV/AIDS households human rights income Inequalities labour Lake Malawi land landholding levels Lilongwe literacy maize Malawi Congress Party Malawian women male marriage matrilineal ment Ministry MOWCACS Mozambique Mzuzu NCWID NGOs Nkhotakota Non-governmental organizations organisations P.O. Box participation percent Platform for Action political population production programmes projects region role rural areas rural women SADC SARDC sector sexual smallholder society SOURCE Southern African Research Tanzania tion traditional University of Malawi urban Vera Chirwa WIDSAA woman women and girls Women in Development Women in Malawi World Bank Zambia Zimbabwe Zomba