Six years after the Fourth World Conference on Women, times have become even more difficult for the poor. The 1999 report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has shown in no uncertain terms that the globalization game has been played in a far from even field, further widening the gap between the winners (the rich of the North) and losers (the poor of the South). "In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20%-in 1997, 74 times as much" (UNDP, 1999:36). Those who had fewer resources to start with because of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and other factors have become poorer and more marginalized.