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The gender gap in workforce participation hasn’t changed in 20 years
The gap between the number of women and men in the workforce has barely changed in two decades, even though increasing women’s participation can lead to nationwide economic growth.
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Millions of women need
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Closing gender gaps can advance global development
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Girls from
low-income families
receive the least schooling
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Child marriage stands in the way of girls' education
Millions of girls are missing. Why?
1 in 4
girls
was
married
before her 18th birthday
Female
entrepreneurs
are on the rise
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Young men can end the cycle of domestic violence
It’s time to unleash girls’ potential in STEM
We don’t have enough female
executives
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Four million die from unsafe cooking conditions every year
Women are still gaining the
right to vote
in 2015
We need more data on women and girls
More mothers
survive childbearing
today
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