Article 14 Rural Women

Rural, indigenous and migrant women

Status report on activities specific to rural women

The occupational structure of the group of economically active rural women has changed considerably.

The launching of the National Documentation Program for Rural Women Workers.

She wondered how many rural women had benefited from the Agrarian Act.

Rural female workers have yet to enjoy fully policies on social insurance.

An analysis of the distribution of rural workingwomen, by income level is highly relevant to the issue of remuneration.

Two thirds of microcredit beneficiaries in Kazakhstan were rural women.

Another way to visualize this fact is the analysis of the positions held by rural workingwomen.

Please provide information on the economic activities of rural women and their income levels in comparison with men.

Please indicate what efforts have been undertaken to enhance funding of the Strategy and specifically to ensure that rural women benefit from it.

Thirty seven women have now participated in the Corporate Governance for Rural Women project.

The presence of the rural woman workers in the fight for the agrarian reform in Brazil is quite remarkable.

Ms. Ogoussan (Benin) said that credit was available to rural women but not to all categories of women.

Ms. Pimentel, noting that rural women suffered generally from the lack of access to health care services, asked what measures the Government was taking to avoid the health consequences of illegal abortions, especially for rural women.

Rural women, therefore are still largely in a position of economic dependency.

Only 20.8 of rural females are literate (HRD in South Asia 2001).

The basic finding is that the contraceptive prevalence rate is lower among rural women compared to urban women.

The integrated programme of the RSPs helps rural women in overcoming barriers to economic opportunity.

The departments of Quiché and Alta Verapaz have the country's lowest literacy rates with the situation being especially acute among rural women (49.2 and 50.7 per cent for the two departments, respectively).

While the average fertility rate among urban women is 2.6 children per woman, the rate for rural women is 4.4.

A total of 69 per cent of the female rural migrants were daughters of the head of household who answered the survey.

A trained birth attendant assisted 21 of the rural women compared to 12 urban women.

Before delivering any service to the rural women, the RSPs organize them into Women Community Organizations.

Thus, in 1992, almost 50 of rural women were less than 19 years old.

The Documentation Program understands that obtaining these documents as a necessary step to integrate the rural women into policies of development and access to land.

Second UN Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8 12 April 2002 Statement on rural women and ageing presented by this organisation.

Awareness raising sessions were being organized at the departmental and communal levels to promulgate the Code on the Person and the Family, especially among rural women.

The same questions applied to the significant measures that the State was planning to take on behalf of rural women (page 24).

The gross enrolment rate at the primary level of urban females was 87 while that of rural females was 52.

It should be emphasized that these results do not imply that 70 of rural women are poor or indigent.

Also important was to launch the National Program for Documentation of Rural Working Women under the National Plan on Agrarian Reform.

In this context, emphasis is on rural women still with consciousness of their rights as consecrated in the Convention.

Such income, from the sale of non timber forest products, can be particularly important for rural women.

Improving the situation of rural women through economic advancement is one of the fundamental objectives of the Agricultural Development Policy Letter (ADPL).

Similarly 40 rural women were assisted by a trained midwife compared with 31 urban women.

It is urgent that these policies should include a gender perspective, in order to provide rural workingwomen with greater autonomy and economic independence.

A large number of rural workingwomen do not even have basic civil documents, such as an identity card or Personal Registration Number (CPF).

This could be related to both the policies for documentation for rural workingwomen and to the aging of the population, in particular the female population.

With the lack of physical facilities and the limited service delivery in rural areas, access to health services remains a major problem for rural women.

Working conditions in host countries are worse for rural migrant women than they are for rural migrant men and urban migrant men and women.

The Association of Rural Women in Estonia serves as the umbrella organisation for rural women. The Association of Rural Women in Estonia operates under the Estonian Farmers' Federation since 1996.

Conversely 40 urban women were assisted by a doctor compared with 11 rural women.

It is astonishing to note that more than two thirds of the rural workingwomen received income of up to one quarter of a minimum wage in 2003.