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Comparing the lives of women in Italy, Belgium, the USA, Canada, Argentina, and Australia, Iacovetta and Gabaccia offer a realistic and engaging portrait of women as peasants and workers, and uncover the voice of female militants. Most importantly, by using a comparative approach to the study of women's migration over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they treat both women who stayed home during male migration, and the work and activism of those who moved. By pursuing this comparative method, they show how Italian women could become Communist militants, union organizers, or anti-fascist radical exiles in some countries while seeming to disappear into stereotypes in others. Ground-breaking and original, this erudite collection of thirteen essays will bring a fascinating new perspective to women's studies and migration history.
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After the introduction of Law no. 194, abortion rates rose modestly, increasing from 13.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 1979 to 16.9 per 1,000 in 1982. Since 1984, there has been a steady decline, reaching 9.8 per 1,000 by 1993. A similar pattern was displayed by abortion ratios (the number of abortions per 1,000 live births), which reached 213 in 1996 after having reached a peak of 389.5 in 1984. While the abortion ratios are relatively high because of Italy’s low fertility rate, the general trends are similar to other western European countries. (Salvini Bettarini 1996). Abortion rates and ratios vary considerably according to regions.
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There are a lot of problems that the foreign women, in particular those coming from North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, face as a result of the impact with new ways of life. Experience on the field proved that many North African women who arrive in Italy have no friends nor relatives they can rely on. Moreover, they are completely alone and badly informed and need aid and support to orient them and inform them on how to deal with the challenges of their new life. ACMID-DONNA intends to be a reference point to help them, to inform them about the laws of the accommodating Country, to make them aware of their possibilities. This is possible in a number of ways all aiming at favouring integration.
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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were formed in August of 1943 as an adjunct to the Army Air Forces' war effort. The organization was made up of two civilian-flying groups - the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron and the Women's Hying Training Detachment. Under the guidance of Jacqueline Cochran, the WASP became involved in all aspects of military flying operations, with the exception of combat and overseas ferrying. More than 1,000 WASP pilots flew over 70 million miles and delivered 12,650 airplanes across the country during their time of operation. The WASP program was suspended in December 1944.
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CO Women's Independent Democratic Movement (CO WIDM) is one of the first women's organizations in Belarus. It is distinguished from the mainstream of the general national-democratic movement that appeared in early 90s. And it united women who worried about the problems of economic and political development in the country, the status of women in the society, ecological problems, cultural and moral regeneration.
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Between 2003 and 2005, the Training Centre of the ILO in Turin conducted various sessions on vocational training and small business development for Afghani women. Classes were held partly in Turin (with study visits to Italy’s most renowned centres of artisanal know-how) and partly in Afghanistan. The project went even further, as one of the participants, Latifa Abbassi, went back to Kabul intending to train other women in her country on entrepreneurship. So far, more than 1 000 Afghani women have acquired entrepreneurial skills and basic training sessions are still being provided in Afghanistan.
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