"Equality between men and women, " is Ms Rahnavard's firm answer when I ask what women's activists are fighting for.

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In turn, greater economic equality between men and women has been shown to reduce poverty rates, boost GDP, and lead to better governance.

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Together, they discussed the consequences of the financial crash on education, job creation, food and nutritional safety, family protection, equality between men and women, and, more generally, on all the social rights of the people of that region.

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The idea is to accelerate, monitor and guide social change with a view to establish a genuine equality between men and women in The Gambia, while at the same time promoting female leadership in socio-economic, political and cultural areas.

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The idea is to accelerate, monitor and guide social change with a view to establish a genuine equality between men and women in this country, while at the same time promoting female leadership in socio-economic, political and cultural areas.

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Women have certainly come a long way since then in terms of strength, conditioning and equality, due in part to Title IX, the federal law that mandated that universities balance resources between men's and women's sports.

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