UNDP - TAKING GENDER EQUALITY
SERIOUSLY
Making Progress, Meeting the Challenges
From Full UNDP Report:
"UNDP believes that
development goes beyond improving living standards to embrace
the
expansion of people's
opportunities, choices and capabilities to live in freedom and
dignity.
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If development progress is best
measured by how well the freedoms of people have
been enhanced, then
gender-disaggregated statistics show how very far we have to
go.
Of the world’s one billion poorest
people, three-fifths are women and girls.
Of the 960 million adults in the
world who cannot read, two-thirds are women.
Seventy percent of the 130 million
children who are out of school are girls.
With notable exceptions, such as
conspicuously absent from
parliaments, making up, on average, only 16 percent of
parliamentarians
worldwide.
Women everywhere typically earn
less than men, both because they are concentrated
in low-paying jobs and because
they earn less for the same work.
Although women spend about 70
percent of their unpaid time caring for family
members, that contribution to the
global economy remains invisible.
Up to half of all adult women have
experienced violence at the hands of their
intimate
partners.
Systematic sexual violence against
women has characterized almost all recent armed
conflicts and is used as a tool of
terror and ‘ethnic cleansing’.
In sub-Saharan
aged 15-24 are at least three
times more likely to be infected than men of the same age.
Each year, half a million women
die and 18 million more suffer chronic disability
from preventable complications of
pregnancy and childbirth.
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