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The world's women 2000: trends and statistics
The world's women 2000: trends and statistics was published by the UN, 2000. Review by Leya Chatta-Chipepa
      The book presents and interprets statistics on how conditions are changing or not changing for women worldwide. These statistics cover the status of women in six specific fields of concern: population, the family, education and communication, work, politics and human rights. The analysis provided is intended to increase awareness of the strides that have been made in bringing the world’s women into the
global community and the challenges that still lie ahead.
      The book is the third edition that has been published by the United Nations. This edition was produced to coincide with the 23rd special session of the General Assembly, which was held in New York from 5 to 9 June 2000 to review progress since the historic Beijing conference and to set in motion future actions for further implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
      The publication has six		 chapters, with each covering a broad policy area, highlighting the main findings on the sit-uation of women worldwide. While each chapter provides new findings in each of the subject areas, as well as upto date country and regional analysis of both new and early data, a number of cross-cutting themes that point to changes emerge – some positive, others negative – occurring in women’s lives at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
      The basic grouping of countries is done by continental region. The presentation of data for regions and sub regions is based on un-weighted data for the countries and areas for which data are available. For the Africa region, the ba-sic groupings are northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Of the sub-regions in Africa, southern Africa is the only one for which data is made available in most of the tables.
      Areas for which there are statistics for the sub-region include: women im-migrants, the average age at first mar- riage, contraception use,		 fertility levels, female-headed households, life expectancy at birth, health care, primary-secondary
school enrolment ratios, illiteracy rates, third level enrolment and career fields, percentage of teachers, percentage of labour force, economic activity rate, informal sector employment, per-centage distribution of labour force by occupational group and women in public life.
      This publication has made commendable efforts to provide a general overview of the world’s progress, and in particular, data measuring women’s progress in regions and sub-regions such as SADC, where vital gender dis-aggregated statistics often do not exist or if they do, are out-of-date. Further-more, countries often use different indicators or definition of indicators, making a cross-country analysis difficult and sometimes unreliable. The publication should prove to be useful to governments, non-governmental organizations, researchers, academics and activists around the world.

Recent publications and acqusitions
Angola Torchbearers
—Chikueka, Maria Chela.- 1999
Available from: Chela Book group c/o Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor Street West, Torornto, Ontario M5S 1W3

Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?
—World Bank.- 2000
Available from: World Bank PO Box 960, Herndon, VA 20172-0960 USA

Children in Our Midst: Voices of Farm-worker’s Children
—McCartney, Irene.- 2000
Available from: Save the Children, PO Box 4689, Harare or Weaver Press, PO
Box 1922, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe

Collection of Papers from SARIPS Annual Colloquium 2000
SARIPS, Annual Colloquium 2000, Re-gional Integration in Southern Africa: Past, Present and Future, Zimbabwe, Harare, Sheraton Hotel, 24-27 September 2000
— .- 2000
Available from: SAPES/SARIPS, PO Box
111, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe		 Development, NGOs, and Civil Socie-ty: Selected Essays from Development
in Practise
—Eade, Deborah.- 2000
Available from: David Philip Publish-ers, PO Box 23408, Claremont 7735, RSA

Effects of Structural Adjustment in Southern Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Manufacturing Sector During Phase 1 of ESAP: 1991 - 1995
—Kadenge, Phineas G; Chipika, Jesimen T and Chibanda, Stanford.- 2000
Available from: SAPES Trust Regional Office

Industrialising Africa: Development Options and Challenges for the 21st Century
—Alemayehu, Makonnen.- 2000
Available from: Africa World Press, Inc. PO Box 1892, Trenton, NJ 08607 or PO Box 48 Asmara, Eritrea.

The Institutional Context of Poverty Eradication in Rural Africa: Proceedings from a Seminar in Tribute to the 20th Anniversary of the International Fund for Agricultural Development 		(IFAD)
—Havnevik, Kjell J. and Sandstrom, Emil (ed).- 2000
Available from: Nordiska Afrikainsti-tutet (The Nordic Africa Institute) PO Box 1703 SE-751 47 Uppsala, Sweden

Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe: Land Use Change in the Mashonaland Provinces
—Moyo, Sam.- 2000
Available from: Nordiska Afrikanistitutet

Namibia Trade Directory 2000: A Review of Namibia Trade and Industry
—Namibia Trade Directory CC.-2000
Available from Namibia Trade Directory CC, PO Box 21593, Windhoek, Namibia
Website: www.tradedirectory.com.na

On the Other Side: NGO Social Development Report
—Andersen, Carsten; Hansen, Henning and Wissing, Jens (ed.).- 2000
Available from: Socialpolitisk Forlag, DK-2400, Copenhagen

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