Empowering women to participate equally in the global economy could add $28 trillion in GDP growth by 2025.
When Women Thrive So Does the World
Pay Gap.
No country (including the top-ranked ones) have yet achieved gender parity in wages.
Workforce Gap.
Nearly 2.2 million women have left the workforce during the pandemic in the US alone.
Women of color held a drastically smaller share of management positions, less than 5% in the US alone.
Investment Gap.
Quarterly VC funding for female founders drops to three-year low as of October 2020.
Female Founders Got 2% of Venture Capital Dollars in 2017
Lack of finance is a major constraint to the growth of female-owned enterprises.
Women + Planet. Both are a life force and the keys to our future.
Violence Against Women.
Approximately 650 million girls and women alive today were married before18.
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by human trafficking- 71%.
1 in 3 women will experience gender-based violence in their lifetime.
Mental Health Crisis.
Unipolar depression, predicted to be the second leading cause of global disability burden by 2020, is twice as common in women.
An estimated 80% of 50 million people affected by violent conflicts, civil wars, disasters, and displacement are women and children.
Several studies suggest that the incidences of burnout among women are greater because of differences in job conditions.
Climate Crisis.
Women are increasingly being seen as more vulnerable than men to the impacts of climate change, mainly because they represent the majority of the world's poor and are proportionally more dependent on threatened natural resources.