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Reduce Gender Inequalities – Reduce Poverty |
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| | It is estimated that women represent 70% of the world’s poor, a figure that indicates that women bear a disproportionate burden of the world’s poverty. Census figures from 2000 indicated that in Canada women had a poverty rate almost 20% higher than men, earned on average 80% of their salary and experienced higher levels of unemployment.
Statistics consistently show that women are more likely than men to be poor and at risk of hunger because of the systematic discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. The implications of poverty for women are wide ranging and millions of women are frequently left without even basic rights such as access to clean drinking water, sanitation, medical care and decent employment. Being poor also mean that women have very little protection from violence and that they have no role in decision-making. Read more... |
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