World events continue to reveal the importance of understanding how women live across continents and cultures.

Using maps, text and other graphics in this new revision of her eye-opening book, Joni Seager employs up-to-the-minute research and data to show what shifts have occurred in the ten years since the first edition was published - the strides made by women and the distance still to be travelled. She explores the current status of women in relation to such key issues as:

• Equality
  
• Information technology literacy
  
• Feminism
  
• Women's health
  
• Women at work
  
• Women in the global economy
  
• Household trends
  
• Domestic violence
  
• Refugees
  
• Lesbian rights
  
• Women in government
  
• Motherhood

Praise for previous editions:

"A fascinating atlas ......it is not only an invaluable reference book, but also throws up questions about why a woman's lot is not as good as a man's."

The Independent

"An excellent achievement: women's global status at a glance."

Dale Spender

"Here is the innovative atlas no thoughtful person, male or female, should be without."

The Washington Post

CONTENTS

Introduction


• Part One Women in the World:
  
  1. The state of women;
     
  2. In their place;
     
  3. States against discrimination.
  
  
  
• Part Two: Families:
  
  4. Households;
     
  5. Marriage and divorce;
     
  6. Lesbians;
     
  7. Domestic violence;
     
  8. Murder.
  
  
  
• Part Three: Birthrights:
  
  9. Motherhood;
     
  10. Contraception;
      
  11. Abortion;
      
  12. Maternal morality;
      
  13. Son preference;
      
  14. Population policies.
  
  
  
• Part Four: Body politics:
  
  15. Breast cancer;
      
  16. HIV/AIDS;
      
  17. Sports;
      
  18. Beauty; under the knife;
      
  19. The global sex trade;
      
  20. Rape;
  
  
  
• Part Five: Work:
  
  22. Working for wages;
      
  23. Workplaces;
      
  24. Unequal opportunities;
      
  25. Fieldwork;
      
  26. Unpaid work;
      
  27. Migration.
  
  
  
• Part Six: To have and have not:
  
  28. Literacy;
      
  29. School;
      
  30. Higher education;
      
  31. Wired women;
      
  32. Property;
      
  33. Poverty;
      
  34. Debt;
  
  
  
• Part Seven: Power:
  
  35. The vote;
      
  36. Women in government;
      
  37. Seats of power;
      
  38. Crisis zones;
      
  39. Women in the military;
      
  40. Feminist organizing.
  
  
  
• World Tables
  
  
• Demography and Health;
  
  
• School, Work, Power
  
  
• Sources
  
  
• Index