TY - BOOK AU - Walter,Lynn,ed TI - The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide SN - 0313327874 (set) U1 - 305.409728 PY - 2003/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Greenwood Press KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Women's rights N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1] Asia and Oceania -- [2] Central and South America -- [3] Europe -- [4] The Middle East and North Africa -- [5] North America and the Caribbean -- [6] Sub-Saharan Africa.; v. [1] Asia and Oceania. Afghanistan / Shahin Gerami, Sondra D. Cogswell -- Australia / Judith Gill -- Bangladesh / Shelly Feldman -- Cambodia / Benjamin F. Shearer -- Central Asia / Nicola Kirsteen Dorman -- China / Gale Summerfield -- India / Deepa S. Reddy -- Indonesia / Soe Tjen Marching -- Japan / Jyoti Grewal -- Korea / Hyunji Kwon, Eunyun Park -- Laos / Benjamin F. Shearer -- Malaysia / Gurdeep Skolnik -- Micronesia / Sara M. Dettinger -- Myanmar / Erin Hale DeOrnellas -- Nepal / Sushma Joshi -- New Zealand / Sara M. Dettinger -- Pakistan / Sandra Homouda -- Papua New Guinea / Marueen Dyer -- Philippines / Linda K. Richter -- Sri Lanka / Cynthia Caron -- Taiwan / Jolan Hsieh -- Thailand / LeeRay M. Costa -- Uzbekistan / Andrea Giacomuzzi -- Vietnam / Darunee Tantiwiramanond -- v. [2] Central and South America. Argentina / Elizabeth L. Borland -- Belize / Irma T. Alonso -- Bolivia / Vanessa von Struensee -- Brazil / Nathalie Lebon -- Chile / Alvaro Vergara-Mery -- Colombia / Juana Suárez -- Costa Rica / Ilse Agshagen Leitinger -- Ecuador / Gioconda Herrera -- El Salvador / Kelley Ready -- French Guiana / Diana H. Yoon -- Guatemala / Lise-Marí Centeno -- Guyana / Kalowatie Deonandan -- Honduras / Julie Cupples -- Nicaragua / Florence E. Babb -- Panama / Elida Guardia Boner -- Paraguay / Jane Clough-Riquelme, María Molinas Cabrera -- Peru / Amy Lind, Emi McLaughlin -- Suriname / Diana H. Yoon -- Uruguay / Susana Rostagnol -- Venezuela / Elisabeth Jay Friedman. v. [3] Europe -- Albania / Antonia Young -- Armenia / Armine Ishkanian -- Austria / Benjamin F. Shearer -- Belarus / Elena Gapova -- Belgium / Alison E. Woodward -- Bosnia and Herzegovina / Jasna Bakšić-Muftić -- Bulgaria / Kristen Ghodsee -- Croatia / Aida Bagić -- Czech Republic / Marianne A. Ferber, Phyllis Hutton Raabe -- Denmark / Lynn Walter -- Estonia / Ain Haas, Edgar Kaskla, Anu Laas -- Finland / Anne Kovalainen -- France / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Georgia / Nino Javakhishvili, Lela Khomeriki -- Germany / Eileen Trzcinski -- Greece / Maria Pantelidou Maloutas -- Hungary / Beáta Nagy -- Iceland / Torgerdur Einarsdóttir -- Republic of Ireland / Elizabeth A. Throop -- Italy / Elizabeth L. Krause -- Kosovo / Antonia Young -- Latvia / Daina Stukuls Eglitis -- Lithuania / Vicki L. Hesli, Alexis Bushnell, Rasa Alisauskiene -- Macedonia / Galina Schneider -- Malta / JosAnn Cutajar -- Netherlands / Benjamin F. Shearer -- Norway ; Poland / Jill M. Bystydzienski -- Portugal / Kathyn Bishop-Sanchez -- Romania / Livia Popescu -- Russia / Carol Nechemias -- Serbia and Montenegro / Lilijana Cickaric -- Slovakia / Sharon L. Wolchik -- Spain / Eva Martínez-Hernández -- Sweden / Linda Haas -- Switzerland / Joy Charnley -- Turkey / Tahire Erman -- Ukraine / Lyudmyla Smolyar -- United Kingdom / Gillian Pascall -- v. [4] Middle East and North Africa. Algeria / Brigitte H. Bechtold -- Bahrain / Sandra Lee -- Egypt / Bahira Sherif-Trask -- Iran / Mary Hegland -- Iraq / Ghoncheh Tazmini -- Israel / Chava Frankfort-Nachmias -- Jordan / Nancy Mataraso Fitzgerald -- Lebanon / Sima Aprahamian, Julie M. Koivunen -- Libya / Amy J. Johnson -- Morocco / Kim Shively -- Occupied Territories / Stephanie Hargrave -- Saudi Arabia / As ad Abu Khalil -- Syria / Naji Abi-Hashem -- Tunisia / Angel M. Foster -- United Arab Emirates / Carolyn I. Wright -- Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren. v. [5] North America and the Caribbean. Bahamas / Audrey Ingram Roberts -- Barbados / Miriam Zoll -- Canada / Veronica Strong-Boag, Gillian Creese -- Cuba / Sara E. Cooper -- Dominican Republic / Cecilia Ann Winters -- French Caribbean / Irma T. Alonso -- Haiti / Robin B. Devin -- Jamaica / Barbara Bailey -- Mexico / Luisa Gabayet -- Netherlands Antilles / Jacqueline Martis -- Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ; Puerto Rico / Irma T. Alonso -- Trinidad and Tobago / Rhoda Reddock -- United States / Cheryl Toronto Kalny -- v. [6] Sub-Saharan Africa. Botswana / Judith Van Allen -- Burundi / Michele Wagner -- Cameroon / Melinda Adams -- Eritrea / Victoria Bernal -- Ethiopia / Tsehai Berhane-Selassie -- Ghana / Kathleen Maria Fallon -- Guinea / Rebecca Furth -- Kenya / Rebecca Kemble -- Mali / Susanna D. Wing -- Mozambique / Kathleen Sheldon -- Namibia / Gretchen Bauer -- Niger / Ousseina Alidou -- Nigeria / Nwando Achebe -- Rwanda / Michele Wagner -- Senegal / Erin Augis -- Somalia / Ladan Affi -- South Africa / Hannah Britton -- Sudan / Asma Mohamed Abdel Halim -- Tanzania / Ruth Meena -- Togo / Jennifer Seely -- Uganda / Rebecca Mukyala -- Zimbabwe / Mary J. Osirim. ER -