Women’s nutritional conditions differ widely among and within countries. Such conditions are worst in the less-developed regions and countries of the world, where poverty, social disparities, discrimination, and different kinds of malnutrition affect large populations. The nutritional and health status of women may be severely impaired in societies where the political and cultural context allows extreme conditions of subordination, as well as in those countries where the threat of hunger persists because of political conflicts, migration, environmental degradation, or natural disasters. On the other hand, not all women who live in developing countries experience nutritional problems in the same way,.
