Moving into spring, the world is preparing for International Women’s Day celebration on March 8th. The day aims to eliminate gender discrimination and unlock equal rights for women around the world.
This celebration holds immeasurable importance in recognizing the evolving challenges in the path to achieving gender equality that stagnates social progress. The United Nations predicts that at the current pace, issues like child marriage will take 300 years to eliminate, and that it will take about 140 years for women to have fair representation in power. Even achieving equal expression in a national parliament is impossible until another 47 years unless the world acts fast.
According to a UN report in November 2024, one in three women experiences gender-based violence worldwide. In 2023, at least 51,100 women were murdered, with more than half being killed by intimate partners and family members, the report added.
Globally, women average 20% less than men. Over 119 million girls have graduated from schools all over the world, with only 49% of countries achieving gender equality in primary education.
These challenges are just one deeper, more complex problem that costs billions of dollars in the global economy and will hit women’s lives and happiness.
