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HIGHLIGHTSPopulation Reports is published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4012, USA
July, 1994 |
Employing Women in Family Planning Programs By employing women, family planning programs provide many thousands of women with new roles and opportunities. Family planning programs make a point of hiring women, especially as front-line providers. In most societies a woman-to-woman approach is the best way to communicate about family planning and to offer services. Female family planning providers can talk to other women and understand their needs better than men can (45). The United States Agency for International Development estimates that currently about 500,000 women work in family planning programs in developing countries—about half of the nearly one million family planning workers estimated by the World Bank to be employed in both developed and developing countries (139, 385). Jobs held by women range from community-based distributors to program administrators to doctors, nurses, and midwives. |