Facts & Figures
- 79 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are ‘missing’ from various populations, mostly in Asia, as a result of sex-selective abortions, infanticide or neglect.
- Between 60 and 100 million girls have been aborted, killed, undernourished or terribly neglected because of their gender – girls are less likely to reach adulthood. In several regions of the world, the number of men is 5% higher than that of women.
- This unfair, targeted treatment of girls in terms of food and health has led to a situation in which the growth of 450 million adult women has been stunted as a result of malnutrition.
- More than 16.4 million women are today suffering from HIV/AIDS. In several regions of Africa and Asia five times more girls are HIV positive than boys. In Botswana one woman in three between 15 and 45 is HIV positive!
- Women in paid employment earn around 75% of that earned by men.
- Girls aged between 12 and 17 make up over 90% of household staff - the most common from of work for working children.
- Around 100 million children have no access to primary education, of whom at least 60% are girls.
- One woman in five is a victim of violence on a worldwide scale.
- Between 40 and 60% of all sexual crimes are carried out on girls under the age of 16.
- The majority of people smuggled into countries illegally are women, especially women to be sold or passed on to the sex industry. Many of these women were kidnapped or sold by their own families.
- According to estimates, around 1.3 billion people live in absolute poverty on an income of less than one US dollar a day. 70% of these people are women.
- The number of women living in poverty has risen by 50% since 1970, the number of men by 30%.
- It was not until 2009 that Filipino Women really started to have rights thanks to the Republic Act No. 9710 also know as the Magna Carta of Women.
- In the Philippines, the Magna Carta of Women granted non-discriminatory and non-derogatory portrayal of women in media and film to raise the consciousness of the general public in recognizing the dignity of women and the role and contribution of women in family, community, and the society through the strategic use of mass media.
- Around 44% of Saudi females are obese when compared with 26.4% obesity rate for Saudi Males
- 34% of the professors in Saudi men's universities hold doctorates, as compared with only 3% of their counterparts at women's universities.
- Women in the United States on average earn of 80% of the salary that men do for the same occupation.
- There are no laws in the United States prohibiting women from holding any political office, the United States has yet to have a female president.
- In the United States, bans on abortion were lifted in 1973, with the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade.
- In the United States, 20.1 million women 25 and older had a bachelor's degree or more in 2010, higher than the corresponding number for men - 18.7 million.