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Title   Women and Poverty Revisited
Date   Summer 1990
No.   Report No. 69

An update of the 1979 report Women and Poverty, which is no longer available. It includes detailed poverty statistics for women in 1987 and numerous comparisons with earlier years. Also included are 35 recommendations to improve the status of women.

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