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Although women have made great strides
throughout the past century, many difficult and critical issues still remain:
...... 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor are women
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2/3rds of the more
than one billion illiterate adults in the world are women who have no access to
basic education; 2/3rds of the
children not in schools are girls
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60 million women who would be alive today are “missing” because of violence
associated with gender discrimination
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Women comprise 48% of the work force, but less than
10% are part of senior management
and only 10% have seats in the world’s parliaments
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80
percent of the world’s 27 million refugees are women
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In journalism, women comprise
40%of working journalists but women only represent 3-5% of department heads,
editors and media owners
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Women control $14 trillion in
assets and this should grow to $22 trillion over next decade.
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