If policymakers hope to make faster progress in improving economic performance, reducing poverty, and slowing 【M1】_________ population growth, they will have to go much farther in 【M2】_________ their efforts to involve women in economic development. Women really contribute more in economic terms than is 【M3】_________ usually recognized. They account for over half the food produced in developing world, even more in Africa; they 【M4】_________ constitute one fourth of the developing world's industrial labor force; they carry the main responsibility for childcare and household chores; they head one fourth and more of the families 【M5】_________ in many developing nations; and they usually fetch most of the household's water and fuelwood. Yet their contribution goes drastically underestimated, partly because women's job often 'does not count,' and. partly 【M6】_________ because much of it is home-based. Unpriced, it is hard to value, and being often immediately consumed, it quickly ceases to be visible. Studies in Nepal and the Philippines suggest that when the production of rural women is valued properly, in average 【M7】_________ they actually contribute about one half the family's income. 【M8】_________ Women could contribute far more to their own welfare and to the economy if their opportunities to do were not so confined. 【M9】_________ The poor, male or female, suffer from limited access to education and health care, information and technology, credit and resources, even markets. But women also face additional gender-related difficulties rooted in tradition—sometimes codified into law and policy—and biology (the demands of multiple pregnancies and the need to care for children). While men normally go into the 'outside' world, women often lack in not only the chance to move 'outside,' but the resources 【M10】_________ to function at full effectiveness 'inside'—at home. 【M1】