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According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2021, As of February 2022, only 26% of global parliamentary seats are held by women; 93% of heads of state are men; only 38.5% of nations have ever had a female head of state; only 14 nations are presently led by a female head of state.
Scant Coverage
According to Chasing Equity: The Triumphs, Challenges, and Opportunities in Sports for Girls and Women, only 3.2% of media coverage is dedicated to women’s sports.
Abrasive Pink
Head of State Mauve
Autonomy Pink
Maternal Mortality Pink
Menstruation Fuchsia
Screen Time Peach
Voice Decible Orange
Adaptive Sport Orange
Climate Care Clementine
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Never Justified Green
Wage Gap Green
Mental Health Moss
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Share the Work Teal
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Literacy Blue
Interruption Blue
Collection Aqua
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According to a study done by Kieran Snyder, CEO of Textio, Within 248 performance reviews from 28 companies, the word "abrasive" appeared in women's reviews 17 times, yet appeared 0 times in men's reviews.
According to the World Economic Forum 2021 Global Gender Gap Report, only 38.5% of the world's nations have ever had a female head of state; currently, only 14 (of 195) countries have a female head of state.
According to gallup polling, 77% of Americans support safe and legal abortion access in most or all cases.
According to the World Health Organization, Over the last 50 years, Black women in the U.S. have consistently experienced ~4x risk of death from pregnancy complications compared to white women. This increased risk of pregnancy-related death among Black women is independent of age, parity, or education.
According to Period Poverty: The Public Health Crisis We Don't Talk About, 83% of teens believe that lack of access to period products is an issue that is not talked about enough; 20% have struggled to afford period products or were not able to purchase them at all; and 25% have missed class because of lack of access to period products.
According to Analysis by the Geena Davis Institute and Google the top 100 films of 2015, women were seen and heard only 35% and 36% of the time - compared to 65% and 64% screen time and speaking time for men.
A 1998 study of young Australian women found that the average frequency of female speech dropped 23 hertz between 1945 and 1993. Margaret Thatcher famously worked with voice coaches to drop her voice 60 hertz between the 1960s-1980s.
According to the U.S. National Federation of State High School Associations, in the 2018-19 academic year, 44% were adaptive sports participants were female students.
According to UNESCO data, 56% of men think that climate change is an important issue, versus 83% of women who think it is an important issue.
According to the World Economic Forum 2021 Global Gender Gap Report, globally, only 26% of parliamentary seats are held by women.
According to A Breakdown Of The Gender Pay Gap In The WNBA And NBA, the average NBA player makes 41 times what the average WNBA player makes, and the U.S. Men's Soccer Team is eligible for a winning bonus that is 5.6x what the U.S. Women's Soccer Team is eligible for.
According to analysis by Foreign Policy, over the last 30 years, 59 nations have expanded reproductive rights. Just 11 countries have restricted them.
Data from the UNDP 2020 Social Norms Index shows that 70% of global respondents disagree with the notion that "It is justified for a man to beat his wife" - while 30% actually agree.
According to Equal Pay Today, for every $1 earned by a white man, Asian American Pacific Islander women earn $.80, Black women earn $.64, Native women earn $.51, and Latina women earn $.54.
According to the CDC, males make up 49% of the population, but account for nearly 80% of those who die by suicide.
A Cooley Pubco survey found that, in 2021, only 41% of new board directors at Fortune 500 companies were women - and only 27% of Fortune 100 board director seats are held by women.
Data from UN Women shows that, globally, women do 2.5x more unpaid work than men. U.S. labor statistics show that men do 3.6 hours of caregiving and housework per day (compared to 5.2 hours for U.S. women).
According to recent Gallup polling, more than 80% of Americans (up to 90%) support safe and legal abortions to save the health or life of a pregnant person.
According to McKinsey's Women in the Workplace 2021 report, for every 100 C-Suite executives, 62 are white men, 13 are men of color, 4 are women of color, and 20 are white women.
According to the Global adult literacy rate from 2000 to 2020, by gender, globally, 89.9% of men are literate, 83.1% of women are literate, and by age 9, boys in the United States are reading a full grade level below girls.
Research shows that men interrupt women at a rate of 2.6x per minute; in a 10 minute conversation, that's 26 interruptions.
According to UN Women data, in 25 sub-Saharan countries, each day, women collectively spend 16 million hours collecting water.
In a study by the Human Rights Campaign (2017), while 68% of all high school students participated in sport, only 29% of LGBTQ girls participated a.k.a., 71% of LGBTQ girls are not participating in sports.
According to the UNDP 2020 Social Norms Index, 50% of global respondents agreed with the idea that men make better political leaders.
This color uses values from a university study, the values represent the proportion of disparaging jokes made by young males about outgroup individuals, women, LGBTQ+, and other peers in order to preserve personal status.
According to National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), over the last 23 years, 56% of countries' climate action reports refer to women (or gender), and 25% include gender considerations or activities involving women - yet, only 9% have a corresponding dedicated budget.
According to Equal Pay Today, for every $1 earned by a white man, Black women earn $.64, Asian American Pacific Islander women earn $.80, Native women earn $.51, and Latina women earn $.54.
According to research by the Center for American Progress, 48% of transgender adults reported being physically attacked or sexually assaulted at least once since the age of 18, compared with 36% of cisgender heterosexual adults.
According to UNESCO data, 80% of those displaced or affected by climate-related disasters are women and girls. For example, in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, men survived women by a ratio of 3-to-1 (75/25).
According to the Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe, 8 states have banned abortion; 10 states are banning or severely restricting abortion; 12 states are threatening to ban or restrict abortion; 20 states and Washington, D.C. protect abortion rights.
According to PR Newswire, in 2022, after years of stagnation in the 3-6% range, we hit a new record "high" for women in the Fortune 500 CEO ranks: 8.8% of Fortune 500
CEOs are women.
According to the UNDP 2020 Social Norms Index, globally, only 21% of business owners (employers) are women.