But,' said a self-employed woman, 'when the tax form appears, you see that you are not so free after all.

Between 1972 and 1979, the number of self-employed women increased 43 percent, five times the rate of increase for men.

I am a self-employed woman who likes to drive a five-speed, manual-transmission car.

We are poor but so many: the story of self-employed women in India.

"There are more self-employed women than men in the third world," she said.

Say a self-employed woman has a $35,000 car that is used 50 percent of the time for business.

An important point is the protection of self-employed women during pregnancy and motherhood.

Subject to the Council's endorsement, for the first time ever, self-employed women will have the right to maternity leave.

It was important to strengthen the protection of self-employed women.

No longer can we look on from the sidelines as self-employed women or men with families experience social injustice.