• There is no country in the world where women’s wages are equal to those of men. 
• The value of women’s unpaid housework and community work is estimated at between 10 to 35% of the world’s gross domestic product — amounting to between US $4.7 trillion and $15 trillion in 2005.
• The UN estimates that 70% of the 1.3 billion people living on less than US $1 a day are women. 
• In every country in the world, the poorest members of society are single women with children.
  

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