The Facts

Women produce one half the world's food but own just one percent of it's farmland. Of the 867 million illiterate adults in the world two thirds are women. On average women represent only ten percent of all elected legislators worldwide. Eighty percent of the world's refugees and displaced people are women and girls. An increase in one year in the average education of a nation's women corresponds with a five to ten percent decrease in that country's child mortality rate. World, wide at least one in three women have been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some way, most often by someone she knows. Between 100 and 140 MILLION girls and women have been subject to female genital mutilation. Yes, they still do that! About one in seven girls in the developing world are married before their fifteenth birthday.

Many of these facts come from Phil Borges book, Women Empowered...It is a most inspiring work.