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Time Is Money: Financial Services Can Help Rural Women Save More of It By Share Rural women play a growing role in agricultural systems around the world. In low-income countries, 79% of working women report that agriculture is their primary work activity. Yet rural women often have limited opportunities to improve their livelihoods. While there are many factors at play, one of the biggest challenges that rural women face is that they lack one of the most valuable resources there is: time. “Time poverty” refers to the chronic lack of time – after engaging in necessary or expected duties...

Community-based programs reduce gender-based violence among teenage boys Through small, neighborhood classes, researchers at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Promundo-US significantly reduced sexual violence among teenage boys living in areas of concentrated disadvantage. The study, published today in JAMA, is the culmination of a large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical trial spanning 20 racially segregated neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area to evaluate two violence prevention programs. The proportion of youth reporting the use of sexual or partner violence in t...

 E-Mail IMAGE: When community leaders engage teenage boys in programming designed to either teach healthy masculinity or job readiness skills, reports of sexual violence among the boys went down. view more  Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22, 2020 - Through small, neighborhood classes, researchers at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Promundo-US significantly reduced sexual violence among teenage boys living in areas of concentrated disadvantage. The study, published today in JAMA, is the culmination of a large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical trial spanni...