Worldwide Statistics

Women do approximately 67% of the world's work.
They earn 10% of the world's income.
They own less than 1% of the world's property.

2 out of 3 adults living in extreme poverty are women; this includes the United States.

In the U.S., women earn 76 cents for every dollar a man earns in the same job.
If women were paid equitably, in America alone, poverty would be halved.

In Sweden, women hold 45% of top governmental roles.
In South Africa, it's 33%. In Mexico, it's 24%. In America it's 14%.
In Saudi Arabia, it's 0%.

Women in top positions of decision-making tend to support additional spending on social, health and educational programs.

Every year, more than 11 million children in the world die before they turn five...
most of them from preventable causes.

More than 40 million people currently have the AIDS virus.
Every 14 seconds, a child loses a parent to AIDS.
When a girl finishes elementary school,
her likelihood of contracting HIV/AIDS drops by 50%.

When a woman can read at the fifth grade level,
her children are 200% more likely to survive childhood.

Of the 115 million children currently out of school globally, more than half are girls.
In some countries, this figure jumps to 80%.

The cost to get all children into school by 2015 is estimated at $10 billion annually.

That is equivalent to:
9 days of U.S. military spending.

Statistics Sources:
United Nations, World Bank, The White House Project
and Institute for Women's Policy Research