Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday voiced her "support for the inclusion of women's issues on the agenda of the G20 Seoul Summit slated for Thursday and Friday in a video message to a parliamentary seminar" on the issue held in Korea, the Korea Times reports. "Women's lack of economic participation is due largely to obstacles that impede their potential, which has been estimated by a U.N. agency to cost the Asia-Pacific region between $42 [billion] and $46 billion in lost gross domestic product, according to the U.S. Department of State," the newspaper writes...
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