It’s international Women’s Day this Sunday. So while your listening to Katy Perri sing at the Cricket World Cup final or searching your local supermarket for a roll of toilet paper or wondering why we really deserve a day off for “Labour Day” ….. it’s worth remembering a few absolute truths in a post truth world.
Gender inequality is a major cause and effect of hunger and poverty: it is estimated that 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women and girls.
Women make up more than two-thirds of the world's 796 million illiterate people.
Every additional year of primary school increases girls' eventual wages by 10-20 percent. It also encourages them to marry later and have fewer children, and leaves them less vulnerable to violence.
Less than 20 percent of the world's landholders are women. Women represent fewer than 5 percent of all agricultural landholders in North Africa and West Asia, while in sub-Saharan Africa they make up an average of 15 percent.
In developing countries, a half-kilometre increase in the distance to school will decrease girls' enrolment by 20 percent.
In sub-Saharan Africa women work approximately 15 hours more than men per week.
Women in sub-Saharan Africa collectively spend about 40 billion hours a year collecting water. This significantly impacts their employment opportunities.
When more income is put into the hands of women, child nutrition, health and education improves.
Its more than #metoo
Images from the Exhibition “The Most Authentic Real Black African Story” FortyFiveDownstairs Gallery, 45 Flinders Lane, Victoria, Australia from 2nd-13th June 2020