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In the last decades, health in the Region of the Americas has improved dramatically, yet many people are still being left behind. PAHO established the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas to analyze the impact of drivers influencing health, while proposing actions to improve inequalities in health.

Assesses theoretical issues raised by feminist social scientists & sociologists of gender: the persistence of patriarchy; women's employment, political power, & social position; & the relationship between gender, class, collective action, the state, & the world system. While the social position of women around the world has been significantly affected by urbanization, industrialization, proletarianization, legal reforms, & the women's movement, women have also actively contributed in key ways to the labor market, the political-legal structure, & the family. The antiabortion movement & various fundamentalist movements suggest that these contributions have been met with a certain amount of hostility. 2 Photographs, 75 References. Adapted from the source document.