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The three main objectives of the Decade of Women, equality, development, and peace, were followed by employment, education, and health, added later as the Decade progressed and was evaluated. The objectives are broad, interrelated, and mutually reinforcing, so that the achievement of one contributes to the achievement of another. Equality, the first and most basic objective, is interpreted as meaning not only legal equality (the elimination of de jure discrimination), but also equality of rights, responsibilities and opportunities for the participation of women in development, both as active agents and as beneficiaries.
Men their rights and nothing more;
women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony, Motto, The Revolution, 1868
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© 1993 Janice Wood Wetzel
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Wetzel, J.W. (1993). Anti-Discrimination and Pro-Equality Measures. In: Campling, J. (eds) The World of Women. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22366-4_2
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