13 GIF reactions to the fact that poverty is sexist

Because there’s no other way to react to the absurdity of this fact.

1. When you’re a girl and whether you live or die depends on where you were born.

2. When about 39,000 girls under the age of 18 become child brides every day.

3. When only just over 20% of poor rural girls in Africa complete primary education.

4. When only about 22% of parliamentarians are female.

5. When women are paid 10-30% less than men.

6. When females are only 10-20% of the world’s land-holders.

7. When 43 million women do not deliver their babies in a health facility.

8. When more than 1.3 billion women don’t have an account at a formal financial institution.

9. When poverty is just flat out sexist.

10. When closing the gender gap in agriculture could increase agricultural yields by 20-30%.

11. When maternal deaths could drop by 67%, if women had access to care.

12. When every year that a girl spends in school can boost her future income by 10-20%.

13. When all of society could benefit from investing in women.

Surprised by any of these? Read our new report, Poverty is Sexist.

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