Women worldwide still face significant inequities in economic opportunities, education access, and freedom from violence. In many countries, women have lower rates of labor force participation, credit access, savings, income, and business ownership compared to men. Many women also experience domestic violence, lack of access to education, inability to vote, and are limited to domestic work. An estimated 35% of women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence from partners or others. Female genital mutilation affects over 133 million girls and women in parts of Africa and the Middle East. In some areas, such as parts of India, girl children are killed or married very young. Better education for women tends to lead to improved health, income, and children's well
Women worldwide still face significant inequities in economic opportunities, education access, and freedom from violence. In many countries, women have lower rates of labor force participation, credit access, savings, income, and business ownership compared to men. Many women also experience domestic violence, lack of access to education, inability to vote, and are limited to domestic work. An estimated 35% of women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence from partners or others. Female genital mutilation affects over 133 million girls and women in parts of Africa and the Middle East. In some areas, such as parts of India, girl children are killed or married very young. Better education for women tends to lead to improved health, income, and children's well
Women worldwide still face significant inequities in economic opportunities, education access, and freedom from violence. In many countries, women have lower rates of labor force participation, credit access, savings, income, and business ownership compared to men. Many women also experience domestic violence, lack of access to education, inability to vote, and are limited to domestic work. An estimated 35% of women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence from partners or others. Female genital mutilation affects over 133 million girls and women in parts of Africa and the Middle East. In some areas, such as parts of India, girl children are killed or married very young. Better education for women tends to lead to improved health, income, and children's well
Although in many countries women are achieving equality in health outcomes and primary school enrollment rates, the world has not seen the same kind of progress when it comes to gender equity in economic opportunity. Women consistently trail men in formal labor force participation, access to credit, savings rates, income levels, entrepreneurship rates, as well as in inheritance and ownership right. For example it was said by Afghanistan that in many countries women are not allotted rights, harassed , they suffer from domestic violence , they are not allowed to access education, they are not allowed to vote or they suffer from domestic violence , they only included in domestic worker and look after there families. It is estimated that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner at some point in their lives.(especially they belong from lower class )An estimated 133 million girls and women have experienced some form of female genital mutilation/cutting in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East, where the harmful practice is most common with a high risk of prolonged bleeding, infection , complications during childbirth, infertility and death. In India there are many villages. People kill girl child as they feel that girls are useless they won’t do anything for their families. If the girl child is born and she has not reach at the age of puberty, and she is not mature enough, there are more than 700 million girls who are getting married at the age of 12. The delegate of Russia mentioned that in North Korea women behind bars are raped, harassed. The delegate of Ghana mentioned that the capital of India Delhi is unsafe for the women. Better educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn higher incomes, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and enable better health care and education for their children, should they choose to become mothers. All these factors combined can help lift households, communities, and nations out of poverty.