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Global Perspective
Women make up 45 percent of the world's workforce. Yet women account for 70 percent of the world's population living in poverty.
Women in developing countries work an average of 60 to 90 hours per week.
Ninety percent of the 27 million workers in export processing zones are women, most of them between the ages of 16 and 25. EPZs are tax-free industrial areas for foreign companies in which labor laws often are suspended and workers unprotected.
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