At the Mid-Decade Conference in Copenhagen in 1980, the facts about women's contribution were summarized by the following statistics:

"Women are half of the world's population (1/2), they do two thirds of the world's work (2/3) for which they earn one tenth of the world's wages (1/10) and own less than 1% of world property."

Even though the above statistics were discussed at every UN women's conference since, men around the world -especially economists and politicians in all governments- have utterly ignored them (...).

During the last decades women have entered dynamically the working environment and achieved a high level of rights among men who constituted for many years the main working force. At the beginning working women were under a glass ceiling because they were considered to be the "fair" sex, in other words, too "nice" to work. Now they are being held back because they are not nice enough. "Numerous studies reveal...