For 130 million girls without an education. For one billion women without access to a bank account. For 39,000 girls who became child brides today. For women everywhere paid less than a man for the same work.
There is nowhere on earth where women have the same opportunities as men, but the gender gap is wider for women living in poverty.
Poverty is sexist, says One.org launching its initiative and asking from the G7 to the G20; from the African Union to state annual budgets to deliver, saying: “None of us are equal until all of us are equal.”
One.org global policy director David McNair caught up to talk to N1 foreign affairs editor Ivana Dragicevic during European Development Days in Brussels.
