At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 governments adopted a revolutionary Programme of Action that called for all people to have access to sexual and reproductive health care, including voluntary family planning, and strengthened maternal health services. 

In the years that followed, medical advances, social progress and increasing support for women’s rights helped reshape the experience of motherhood around the world. But how much has truly changed?

Below, we (UNFPA) explore how motherhood has been transformed – and how it has not.

https://www.unfpa.org/news/just-your-mother-seven-ways-motherhood-has-changed-or-not-last-25-years