POLL: MAJORITIES WORLDWIDE BELIEVE WIDOWS FACE DISCRIMINATION

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......is a fact of life for widows and divorced women. The people surveyed represented...discrimination against widows and divorced women, Kull believes that the...discrimination against widows and divorced women contravenes the Universal...

Poll: Across the World Many See Discrimination Against Widows and Divorced...

U.S. Newswire;  June 23, 2008 ;     431 words ......widespread perception that widows and divorced women are treated worse than...Discrimination against widows and divorced women appears to be a phenomenon...discrimination against widows and divorced women, the thousands of respondents...

Widows Aided Under House Social Security Legislation

The Washington Post;  May 15, 2002 ;     202 words ......increased for about 120,000 widows and divorced women under legislation passed...the poverty rate among widows was 15 percent in 2000...increase the benefit limit for widows whose spouses both retire...requirements for disabled widows and repeal the two-year waiting period for ...

Widows, divorcees discriminated against in most nations: University of...

The Hindustan Times;  June 23, 2008 ;     327 words ......Syndication. Washington, June 23 -- Widows is most countries are discriminated...least some discrimination against widows. This included majorities in South...the people surveyed agreed that widows were discriminated against. In Mexico...of those who answered saying that widows are often treated ...

Divorced women face poverty

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 10, 1991 ;     318 words ......current statistics on the status of divorced women. Only 43 percent of them receive child...financially abandoned. Sociologists say that divorced women and their children are the "new poverty...divorced man's increases. Is this treating divorced women fairly? As I sell real estate, I ...

Pension trap for divorced women

The Scotsman;  January 30, 2004 ;     423 words ...DIVORCED women are facing poverty in later life because of shortcomings...and Gender, at Surrey University. She added that divorced women who have had children are the "bottom of the pile...pensions have been interrupted. About 40 per cent of divorced women in the age group are on ...

Widows May Get Social Security Boost

AP Online;  May 14, 2002 ;     474 words ......increased for about 120,000 widows and divorced women under legislation with broad...the poverty rate among widows was 15 percent in 2000...increase the benefit limit for widows whose spouses both retire...requirements for disabled widows and repeal the two-year waiting period for ...

Study: Divorced Women Have More Illness

AP Online;  October 31, 2006 ;     597 words ......after divorce - from 1991 to 1994 - the divorced women reported 7 percent higher levels of...time. A decade later, however, the divorced women reported 37 percent more physical illness...and parenting problems. He added that divorced women, especially in rural areas, have poor...

The mourning after Plight of widows

International Herald Tribune;  December 19, 2007 ;     693 words ......12-19-2007 The mourning after Plight of widows Byline: Cherie Blair The New York Times...I reflect on the plight of millions of widows across the world, I realize just how fortunate...Although we were surrounded by love, widows and their children in many societies are...

RIGHTS-SOUTH ASIA: WIDOWS FACE DOUBLE DISCRIMINATION

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  February 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Feb. 5 (IPS) -- Throughout South Asia, widows are considered inauspicious and harbingers...bad luck. In India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, widows are turned out of their houses, excluded...because they are women and because they are widows -- said delegates to the first South Asian...

Empowering Widows

Women's Feature Service;  February 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Bhajan Ashram in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, widows have to sing for their supper, literally...clothing once a year. But even if the 12,000 widows of the pilgrimage centre of Vrindavan...recently held 'South Asian Conference on Widows in Development' organised by the Guild...

Parlour case obscures real problem for divorced women.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 14, 2004 ;     161 words ......is more worrying is the example she sets. She makes all divorced women look like greedy, money-grabbing ladies of leisure who have...next 20 years. Divorce favours men, financially speaking. Divorced women add up to one of poorest sectors of society. However, high-profi...

LEGAL & FINANCE: Many middle-aged divorced women worry about...

The Birmingham Post (England);  September 9, 2005 ;     341 words ......entitles women to a slice of their husband's pension, to date only four per cent of divorced women over 50 have won through. As a result, many divorced women are left with only a state pension in their retirement. But pensions aren't the only...

Malaysian opposition Islamist lawmaker under fire for calling divorced...

AP Worldstream;  April 28, 2006 ;     374 words ......party and government lawmakers Friday after he called divorced women prostitutes and lustful. Abdul Fatah Harun, a Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party member, said most divorced women were not "sad and quiet" like widows, but were "easily spotted" at parties displaying "gatal...usually used in a ...

Most divorced women stand by decision

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 27, 1988 ;     172 words ...NEW YORK (UPI) Most divorced women think splitting from their husbands was a good decision, but...of the men they have dated since. Only 31.5 percent of the divorced women surveyed by Savvy magazine had remarried, compared with 50...