The Need for Love can be a Health Hazard
a review of Jane Wegscheider Hyman and Esther R. Rome's Sacrificing Ourselves for Love (Tenth Anniversary Edition 1997)
Health is wealth, so goes the expression.
Indeed, good health enables a person to experience and enjoy life to its fullest and be a productive member of society. It is, therefore, very disturbing that every day, the majority of women risk their health and well-being in order to be pleasing to others. Millions of women fall prey to the lure of self-starvation, dieting and cosmetic surgery to conform to the unattainable "ideal" body image. Many more put themselves at great risk by putting up with abusive relationships. Sacrificing Ourselves for Love explores these health hazards that arise out of the need for love and acceptance.
Taking Up an Unpopular Advocacy One on One with Dr. Pusadee Tamthai of Thailand's Women in Politics Institute
In the year 2000, five years after the Fourth World Conference on Women that took place in Beijing, China in 1995, governments, women's groups, NGOs and the international community will assess the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, the major output document approved at that conference and the Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women developed earlier in the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985.
Country Report: Nepal The movement for equal property rights for women
Social Background
Women constitute more than 50 percent of the population of Nepal. However, they are far behind men in all aspects of life. There is a wide gender gap in the social, economic, administrative, political and legal fields, primarily because of the patriarchal social system that confines women within the home and places men in control of all resources.
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