Women
Construction Workers
A total of 117 world leaders attended the United
Nations World Summit for Social Development,
held in Copenhagen, Denmark in March, 1995.
In the summit discussion, it came up that women
make up nearly 70 percent of the world's poor
and 65 percent of the world's illiterates. The
UN Secretary- General Boutros-Boutros-Ghali
underlined the gravity of the problems of women
when he said, "At the summit, there is
no single group which illustrates the three
themes of this conference better than women. more...