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5 Concluding Presentation and Discussion
Pages 39-42

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... Women were the majority in the country, and economic development necessitated policies that treated women equitably. She discussed how to justify special projects for minority groups to the majority in power and how to implement change.
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... time, societies have modified their behavior, such as the networking opportunities formally ­Shirley Malcom provided at professional meetings. A good example is that of "smokers."1 Malcom talked about the GenderInSITE Initiative started by several international groups, including the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, the Gender Advisory Board of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, and 1 "Smokers" were informal gatherings of colleagues to exchange ideas and network.
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... Meanwhile, the Initiative seeks to make gender discussions important to policy-makers and business leaders in many countries worldwide. Finally, Malcom challenged participants to look at the changes that have been made and to think about additional ones; programmatic change is necessary for long-term structural change.
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