1. Women's new roles I Birgitta Jansson 101129

2. Women Well-being – ill-being Missing women Women's entitlement to: – Literacy and Education – Economic power – Property rights Political, social and economic roles

3. The importance to include women in the development. Education and the possibility to earn money help the children as well. An educated woman earning her own money will have fever and more healthy children. Agency – empowerment

4. Grameen bank (Muhammad Yunus) Grameen Bank grants loans (micro credits) to poor and low-income people for a specific purpose (e.g. for purchase of a telephone or a sewing machine) which has to be directly related to the economic activity to be undertaken. Micro credits are small amounts of money loaned to clients by banks or other institutions. – They can be offered, often without collateral, to an individual or through group lending.

5. Studies on microfinance (microfinance refers to loans, savings, insurance, transfer services and other financial products targeted at low-income clients) have shown that: – Microfinance help poor families to meet their basic needs – The fact that the poorest and low-income people take advantage of these financial products leads to improvement in socio-economic conditions and guarantees stability and entrepreneurship development.

6. – Through strengthening of women's involvement in economy, microfinance improves the status of women, promotes gender equality and leads to achieve better conditions for households. – The efficiency of this kind of financial services depends on the period of their availability to potential clients.

7. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_ros ling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_ros ling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

8. Culture Social choice Individual behaviour Social commitment Responsibility

9. Esping-Andersen Women´s and men´s decisions about: – Marriage – Parenthood – Work Masculinisation of women's life course

11. Family formation Postponements Low fertility Births outside marriage Divorces Lone mothers

12. Becker G – Home economics Specialising in care and work – Male - bread winner – Female – care – Rational choices – utility functions Doing gender – Women's economic autonomy and power within the couple

16. Rising income inequalities High-skilled double-earner Joblessness in the bottom Female employment influences inequalities – Couple – single (especial lone mothers) – Lone motherhood – low education, low income – High educated women work more – Gender gap – Partnership formation (who marry who?)

18. Life chances for the children Depending on the family Intergenerational income mobility – Inheritance of parents income (earned income) – Usually father – son – Mother – Household income