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A word from WIDE (Women In Development Europe) on gender and development
Women missing out on development?
The majority of the world’s poor are women. The UN World Food Programme reports that 70% of those living in poverty are women. In addition, women have to deal with many inequalities, for example in the sphere of economics (including the economics of care), decision-making, education and health, despite their important contribution to economic growth. Women make up the majority of the unpaid economy, especially the care economy. According to official figures, eliminating gender equality in the labour market in Latin America would increase women’s wages by about 50% and increase national output by 5%. Another example: the “amazing” economic growth of many Asian countries, such as China, depends to a large extent on the very cheap labour many women provide in factories. Women are also more often victims of war, and of domestic violence. In the words of the informal slogan of the Decade of Women in the 1990s, “women do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive 10% of the world’s income and own 1% of the means of production”.
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