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Facts and Numbers to Know about Women on IWD2022

2022-03-08 11:46

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Seventy per cent of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty are women. In urban areas, 40 per cent of the poorest households are headed by women.
Women predominate in the world's food production (50-80 per cent), but they own less than 10 per cent of the land.
80 per cent of the displaced by climate related disasters and changes around the world are women and girls.
Climate change may lead to more gender-based violence, an increase in child marriages, and worsening sexual and reproductive health.
The fact that Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th is strongly linked to the women’s movements during the Russian Revolution (1917).
New Zealand was the first self-governing nation to allow women to vote.
In the first known campaign of its kind, the Egyptian Society of Physicians went against tradition by declaring the negative effects of female genital mutilation. This was in 1920.