{"id":2750,"date":"2018-10-11T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/womens-rights-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:22:43","slug":"womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Womens Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Womens Rights<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Women across the world continue to suffer from gender inequality, including child- and forced marriage, gender-based violence, sexist policies, as well as barriers to participation in education and employment. Achieving gender equity globally is crucial to meeting development goals, reducing human suffering and solving our biggest environmental problems.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If we invest in girls and women, the world and all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals will advance forward rapidly as a result. <\/p>\nAshley Judd, actor and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Barriers to equality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No country<\/a> has yet achieved full gender equality and women across the world continue to suffer from discrimination and unequal rights and opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation is worst in countries where harmful patriarchal traditions, including child marriage and female genital mutilation, remain the norm. Globally, one in four girls does not attend secondary school and one in five girls is married before her 18th birthday. Child marriage robs girls of a bright future and brings a high risk of death and injury related to pregnancy and childbirth. In most low-income countries, a woman’s ability to determine the number and spacing of her children is limited or non-existent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in many high-income countries, women often get paid less than men for the same jobs, face gender-based discrimination and violence, and suffer from misogynistic attitudes and sexist policies that restrict their autonomy over their own bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An equal world is a better world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Achieving gender equality will make the world a healthier, happier place and is crucial to making lasting environmental progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Population Matters is calling for women\u2019s empowerment globally, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n