A Cellphone for Every Woman - NYTimes.com

A Cellphone for Every Woman - NYTimes.com:

"AS world leaders gather next week in Brazil for the Rio+20 summit meeting on sustainable development, poverty fighting will be high on the agenda. Gender inequity should be, as well. In a world where women hold less than 20 percent of all legislative seats, 70 percent of the poorest people — those who live on less than $1.25 a day — are women, and 4 million more women die each year than men, a result of poor families’ preferences for male infants and underinvestment in women’s and girls’ health."

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A Cellphone for Every Woman - NYTimes.com