Economic Deprivation
• Women produce nearly 80% of the food on the planet but receive less than 10% agricultural assistance i.e. access to land seeds, fertilizer or information (peace keeper)
• More than 1 billion people live in abject poverty on less than $1 a day. 70% of those people are women (kamilat.org)
• Women do 66% of the world’s work and get paid less than 10% of its income – in Africa it’s 80%
• Women comprise 21 of the 37 million people living below the poverty line in the US
• One year out of college women earn 20% less than men and 10 years later 31% less
• Women on average are away from workforce for 14.7 years compared to 1.6 years for men
• Women own around only 1% of the world's land
• Girls as young as 8 turning to prostitution in the DRC due to poverty
• 80% of the world's 27 million refugees are women
• Females in developing countries on average carry 20 litres of water per day over 6 km
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