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London-News
March 2014
In one Birmingham hospital as
many as 40 to 50 women every
month are treated after undergoing
female genital mutilation.
Marriage
Around 14 million girls, some as
young as eight years old, will be
married in 2014.
An estimated 1.2m children are
trafficked into slavery each year; 80
per cent are girls.
In 10 countries around the world
women are legally bound to obey
their husbands
Only 76 countries have legislation
that specifically addresses domestic
violence – and just 57 of them in-
clude sexual abuse.
Working rights
In the UK, the gender pay gap
stands at 15%, with women on average earning £5,000 less a year
than their male colleagues. The disparity is even greater in part time
jobs, going up to 35 per cent.
Globally only a 24 per cent of senior management roles are now filled
by women.
The Equalities and Human Rights
Commission estimates it will take
70 years at the current rate of
progress to see an equal number of
female and male directors of FTSE
100 companies.
This hurts everyone. The gender
gap in certain industries is even
more apparent and damaging.
Zemach Getahun estimates that
closing the gender gap in agriculture could reduce the number of
hungry people in the world by 1217 per cent.
If the skills and qualifications of
women who are currently out of
work in the UK were fully utilised,
the UK could deliver economic
benefits of £15 to £21 billion
pounds per year –more than double
the value of all our annual exports
to China.(SOURCE: copyright/independent.co.uk/news/world/)