Gender Equity: The Need to Acknowledge Discrimination

"For every 100 boys who do not attend primary school, there are 117 girls who do not attend. Women represent 67% of the world's illiterate people and only 16.6% of the world's legislators. What is more, they do not receive equal pay to men for doing the same work. Acknowledging that gender relations relegate women to second class status is the first step in creating policies and political will to put an end to these inequities."