Rural women are active agents of economic and social change and environmental protection who are, in many ways and to various degrees, constrained in their roles as farmers, producers, investors ...

This fact sheet [1] highlights the progress of rural women against key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators, pointing to some of the advancements made and gaps that still exist.

The government hastily shelved a program to provide a cash incentive to single women to relocate to rural areas upon marriage following a storm of criticism. Hanako Jimi, state minister for ...

Six months later, she said it seems clear to her that the healthcare needs of rural young women like her are largely ignored. For McCoy and others, figuring out how to obtain adequate care to ...