What percentage of the worlds wealth do women control?  Please list
sources.  Thank you

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 05 Nov 2003 09:11 PST

I don't know if concise world-wide data are really available to answer
your question.  However, there's a nice overview of what is known in
this article here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2002/08/05/newscolumn1.html
"Women adding to their wealth by becoming more savvy"

Let me know if this meets your needs.

pafalafa-ga

<According to the United Nations women own one percent of the world?s
worth and earn one tenth of the world?s income.
http://www.caa.org.au/horizons/h29/women.html
http://www.un.org/Conferences/habitat/unchs/press/women.htm

According to ILO (International Labour Organisation) women control 1%
of the world?s assets.
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:olHl3oNsfuUJ:www.unesco.org/most/asia1.htm+%22women+control%22+percent+assets&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/statistics.htm

Although women do two thirds of the world?s work, they own less than 1
percent of the world?s property.
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-03-06.htm
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:dNZGF13k1qsJ:www.cedpa.org/publications/pdf/gender_english_all.pdf+%22women+control%22+%221+percent%22+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8>



<Search strategy:>

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<Hope this helps.>