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Boxes and Tables Boxes Box 1.1. The Inter-American Commission of Women Box 1.2. The First Commission on the Status of Women Box 1.3. Women in Freedom Struggles Box 1.4. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: The First Woman President of UN General Assembly Box 1.5. Alva Myrdal: Pioneering Peacemaker Box 2.1. Ester Boserup: Launching the Field of Women in Development Box 2.2. Annie Jiagge: Driving Force in the CSW Box 3.1. Vida Tomšič: Woman Leader in the NAM Box 3.2. Lucille Mair: Scholar, Diplomat, Activist Box 3.3. A Pioneering Human Rights Instrument Box 3.4. DAWN’s First Meeting, Bangalore, India: The Group, August 1984 Box 4.1. SEWA Uses the Informal Economy as a Source of Empowerment Box 4.2. Women’s Regional Networks Box 5.1. Microcredit as Salvation for Poor Women? Box 5.2. The Critical Mass of 30 Percent Box 5.3. The Inter-Parliamentary Union Promotes Women’s Political Power Tables Table 2.1. Percent Female Staff at the FAO, the ILO, UNESCO, and the WHO by Grade, 1976 15 16 25 26 39 54 68 84 89 90 98 116 123 141 147 149 159 xi Boxes and Tables xii Table 4.1. Total Number of Rural People Living below the Poverty Line by Sex (estimated in millions), 1965–1970 and 1988 Table 4.2. Income for UNIFEM, INSTRAW, and UNDP, 1985, 1990, 1995, and 2000 (in U.S. dollars) Table 5.1. Regional Averages of Women in World Parliaments, 1994, 2000, 2004 Table 5.2. Women in the Secretariat of the United Nations, 1950, 1976, 1985, 1995, and 2004 (by number and percent total grade) 107 129 146 150 ...

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