Women and Health and Family Worldwide, women suffer greater malnutrition than men. Most of these deaths are preventable. As children, girls are undervalued, fed less, given inadequate healthcare. Parents, particularly in China and India, use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. In Africa, for every HIV infected boy there are six HIV infected girls.
Women traditionally eat last and least.
They do not get more to eat even during pregnancy and nursing. There is no country in the world where women's wages are equal to those of men. In Silicon Valley, for every 100 shares of stock options owned by a man, only one share is owned by a woman. Women and the Law Women are denied the knowledge, the means, and the freedom to act in their own and their children's best interests. The majority of the world's women cannot equally own, inherit, or control property, land, and wealth.