The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics presents statistics and analysis on the status of women and men in the world, highlighting the current situation and changes over time. It was prepared to coincide with and in observance of the first-ever World Statistics Day, 20.10.2010. The report is the fifth in the series which has been published every five years, as called for in the Beijing Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. As in the past editions, the presentation is made in a format and language that non-specialists can readily understand. The World's Women 2010 reveals that progress towards the goal of gender equality has been made in the last two decades in a number of areas, although uneven and, for the most part, quite modest. In some areas it is clear that there is a long way to go before gender equality is achieved. These are elaborated in the following eight chapters of the report, each representing a broad area of concern: population and families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment and poverty. A wide selection of the statistics and indicators at the country level are presented in the Statistical Annex of the report.

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At head of title: Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Statistical Annex (p. 175-239): 1.A. Population -- 2.A. Health -- 3.A. Education : Literacy and primary education -- 3.B. Education : Secondary and tertiary education, teaching staff and researchers -- 4.A. Work: Labour force participation, unemployment and economic sector of employment -- 4.B. Work : Status in employment, occupation and wages -- 4.C. Work : Time spent on paid and unpaid work -- 4.D. Work : Maternity leave benefits, as of 2009 -- 5.A. Power and decision-making -- 6.A. Prevalence of violence against women -- 6.B. Physical and / or sexual violence against women by current or former intimate partner -- 6.C. Female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C) -- 6.D. Women's attitudes towards wife beating -- 6.E. Sources of data on prevalence of violence against women (tables 6.A and 6.B) -- 7.A. Access to sources of drinking water and use of solid fuels for cooking -- 8.A. Access to cash income and participation of women in intrahousehold decision-making on spending -- 9. List of countries, areas and geographical groupings.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255).
Available also at UN Statistics Division website (viewed 18 Nov. 2010).

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