Educated women have decreased maternal mortality

In Viet Nam, education was considered the foundation for the economic empowerment of women.

Women who are educated tend to have access to greater employment opportunities that enhance their quality of life.

Children whose mothers have secondary or higher education suffer less underweight or low height, compared with children whose mothers have elementary or no education.

Latvia had a large proportion of women in local authorities and should build on this in improving the number in Parliament and in the executive branch, since a pool of educated women was available.

The Chinese now have a generation of educated, empowered young women who are not sure whether they want to marry at all, owing to the constraints that a husband (and a mother in law) would place on their freedom.

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

She attributes the problem of uneducated women to men and a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men who consider females rather as women than human creatures .

Uneducated women then have few alternatives, and the expectation becomes self fulfilling, leaving women in a continuous cycle of powerlessness that has had significant adverse long term effects.

(a) Poor, out of school girls and women were trained and supported in finding employment.

Educated girls are less likely to fall victim to HIV AIDS, trafficking and other forms of violence.

There is better news on achieving gender parity in education, a key to reaching other goals, including lower infant mortality, which often comes about because educated women have fewer children.

Based on the mother's level of education, the greatest reductions in child mortality were recorded among women with access to secondary education, where the decline was 67 per cent, while for women with no education the reduction was only 26 per cent, over the same period.

The health advantages of education extend beyond childbirth and infant health. AIDS spreads twice as fast, a Zambian study shows, among uneducated girls than among those who have been to school.

In 2001, 46 per cent of uneducated teenage girls had already given birth or were pregnant, as against 5 per cent of teenage girls attending university.

TAFE New South Wales Women Strategy 2004 2010 was developed to advance equitable vocational education and training for women students from all backgrounds and circumstances.

Children of educated mothers consistently out perform children with educated fathers and illiterate mothers. Given that, in general, children spend most of their time with their mothers, this is hardly surprising.

Good hearted women are always beautiful, but beautiful women are not always good hearted.

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Women with disabilities continue to remain the most disadvantaged and marginalized of all women in Vanuatu.

Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

The Committee is concerned about the problem of the sale of women and girl children and of the abandonment of elderly women.

The short course, Women on Boards and Committees, was delivered in TAFE New South Wales to provide learners with the skills and attitudes required to become members of boards and committees. Another short course, Women in Decision Making Boards and Committees, was delivered to provide learners with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to improve the representation of women on government boards and committees and in decision making roles in public and private sector organizations.

The women are very supportive.

The women play tennis.

The women's hats are expensive.

I hate jealous women.

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