"We are challenged to stand together with and for women and children and will take concrete actions, personally and communally, to break the cycles of poverty and violence which disenfranchise women and foster systemic oppression in church and society."
- Sister of Charity Chapter (1995)
Statistics on Women
from the United Nations
- Women constitute nearly 70% of the world's 1.3 billion poor.
- One-fourth of families worldwide are headed by women.
- Women perform an estimated 60% of the world's work but own only 1% of the world's land and earn just 10% of the world's income.
- Women represent 2/3 of more than one billion adult illiterates who have no access to education.
"The painstaking collection and classification of statistics documenting women's inequality in health, education, the workplace... irrefutably support my own, often painful, observations and experience... they bring to life the comment of an English physician who said of the science of statistics that, after all, it only represented people with the tears wiped off."
- Former UNICEF Ambassador of Good Will, Liv Ullmann
Looking for stories and statistics? Go to...
Institute for Women's Policy Research - www.ipr.org
Focuses on women in the United States state by state. Includes information on the status of women in the following areas: politics, economics, health, right demographicsDepartment of Labor - www.dol.gov
UN Development Fund for Women - www.unifem.org
UN Millenium Development Goals - www.un.org
Governance, Peace and Security, HIV/Aids, Violence Against Women, Women, Poverty and Economics, Human Rights
Take Action Now
To learn and respond to women-related issues visit:
- Platform for Action from the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform
