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New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Financial concerns can take much of the sentimentality and romance out of marriage, says Judith Bruce, the senior associate and policy analyst at the Population Council. In poorer countries especially, marriage becomes more of an arrangement by which women’s time, labor, and fertility are ceded as an essential economic exchange. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUDITH BRUCE Judith Bruce joined the Population Council in 1977. She is a senior associate and policy analyst with the Council's Poverty, Gender, and Youth program. Through policy analysis, evidence-based intervention design, advocacy, and capacity building, Bruce leads the Council's efforts to develop programs that protect the health and well-being and expand the opportunities of the poorest adolescent girls in the poorest communities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Judith Bruce: When I decided to do this work—obviously I’m a female and I was an adolescent once—I began to think about the shape of females’ lives and I became very interested in knowing more about the most excluded girls in the most excluded and poorest communities. Obviously all women face some difference in their

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