Urban women constitute an quot invisible urban support structure quot .

Those programmes are geared both to urban women and rural women.

Young religious women are turning up at urban universities.

Percentage of literate women in urban and rural areas

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

Integrating the safety of women and girls into urban strategies

In urban areas, 55.4 per cent of the population is economically active, and more men than women have joined the workforce (71.1 per cent of urban men, as against 40.1 per cent of urban women).

For instance, women who dress in ways considered immodest, particularly urban, young, and mobile women .

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

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

16 urban women received post natal consultation within 6 weeks of delivery compared to 6 rural women.

He also confirmed that the birth rate for rural women was different from that of urban women.

As far as retirement benefits were concerned, urban women were discriminated against as rural women could retire at the age of 57 and, unlike urban women, widowed women in rural areas were entitled to the retirement benefits of their late husbands.

Urban planning has either not been concerned with women apos s issues or has assumed that urban processes were gender neutral.

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

The Ministry of Women was working to ensure equitable development for both rural and urban women and men.

Urban cultures Urban realities Urban governance Urban renaissance.

Urban poor Urban resources Urban sustainability Urban services Urban disasters and reconstruction.

Rural women can also seek help from crisis centers in the urban areas.

However on account of a number of reasons education indicators for rural women lag behind men and urban women.

309. The Committee noted that rural women apos s life expectancy was much lower than that of urban women.

17. Although many studies exist on cities and on urban processes, the situation of women in urban areas and the application of a gender participation to urban issues have received less attention.

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

By 2001 02 corresponding figures were urban women 99 , 40 and 31 and for rural women 95 , 21 and 14 .

In urban areas, all women live less than five kilometres from a health establishment.

Women in both rural and urban areas use Maintenance Courts to secure their maintenance.

In 2002, 81.02 of women in rural areas received assistance from medical workers during child delivery (97.27 in the urban areas) and 70.79 of pregnant women received maternal check (95.78 in the urban areas).

The Forum consisted of dialogues among partners on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic discussions on urban poverty, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services, and urban disasters and reconstruction.

There were three plenary meetings, partners' dialogues on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic dialogues on urban poor, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

Table 14 Distribution of urban and rural women by distance from the nearest health facilities

Similar differences between women and men can also be observed in urban and rural areas.

Mostly women in urban areas and those who are educated make use of these services.

MCH FP projects are typically aimed at rural inhabitants, the urban poor, women and youth.

The stresses of urban life can be more acute for women given their multiple tasks.

During the World Urban Forum, organized alongside the Barcelona Forum, the Special Rapporteur highlighted the importance of including women in urban policy formulation and countering the distinct negative impact of urbanization and forced evictions on women.

Women who run their own businesses (hereafter women entrepreneurs ) are mainly employed in small scale production, in both rural and urban areas.

It has also developed pilot projects that focus on empowering urban women in select African countries.

Women accounted for a slightly higher percentage of the rural population than of the urban population.

Constitutional Framework Women, urban as well as rural, are assured equality under the Constitution of Pakistan.

One of them was poverty, which affected women in particular, in both rural and urban areas.

In 1996 it was reported that 55 per cent of women were affected and women in the rural areas affected more severely that women in the urban areas.

In urban areas, however, the figures are similar for men and women 79.1 per cent for women and 78.2 per cent for men.

B. Development women in urban areas population, nutrition and health factors for women in development, including migration, drug consumption and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

The IDS97 provides strong evidences on the existence of real changes in the reproductive behavior of Mozambican women the rural women currently have 0,7 children more than the urban women in 1980, this differential was of 1.2 children between the urban areas and the rural ones.

However the level of satisfaction among both sets of women to the services provided is more or less the same (98 for urban women and 93 for rural women).