This document discusses gender equality and the status of women worldwide. While women have made progress in some areas, significant inequalities remain. Women earn on average three-fourths of what men earn for the same work. They also do 67% of the world's work but earn only 10% of the world's income. Domestic violence, rape, and female infanticide continue to plague many societies. For real change to occur, both men and women must work together towards equality within their homes and communities.
3. What is “GE” Gender equality, as related to human rights is a fundamental right. Gender Equity is one of the goals of the United Nations Millennium project to end world poverty by 2015.
4. True, that over the years women have made great strides in many areas with notable progress in reducing some gender gaps…
5. But…. The majority of women earn on average about three-fourths of the pay of males for the same work, outside of the agricultural sector, in both developed and developing countries.
6. Though 67% of the hours of work done in the world is by women, they earn only 10% of the world’s income..
7. And In most countries, women work approximately twice the unpaid time men do.
8. The value of unremunerated work was estimated at about $16 billion, from which $11 billion represents the invisible contribution of women.
9. Two-thirds of the 130 million children worldwide who are not in school are girls.
10. 3 out of 5 women in Southern Asia and an estimated 50% of all women in Africa and in the Arab region are still illiterate.
11. An appalling fact Female infanticide. The number of girls born and surviving in India is significantly less compared with the number of boys.
12. Reason Female fetuses are being aborted and baby girls deliberately neglected and left to die. Gender inequality starts right from the womb!!
13. Over the years, the United NationOrganization has helped create an historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.
14. Still The vicious circle of illiteracy and social backwardness keep the fair sex under dark and make them vulnerable perpetually, pushing them at the lower rungs of the ladder.
15. Domestic violence Close to 50% of women experience some degree of domestic violence during marriage.
16. Rape is used as a weapon against women
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18. Around 60 to 70 per cent of cases of rape go unreported. Of the few reported cases, convictions are rare.
19. Reason Social stigma, and the embarrassment faced by the victim in testifying the case in open court.