To fight the gap, women must celebrate diversity
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By Buena Bernal
The literature is vast: gender inequality exists.
Anyone who denies, ignores or lives blind to this reality is helping make matters worse.
Let’s get the facts straight.
New data collated by the Alliance 8.7 and released during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017 show women and girls account for 71% of the world’s enslaved. They are 99% of forced labor victims in the commercial sex industry and 84% of victims of forced marriages. [1]