Worldwide, more than half the population of women over age 15 cannot read or write. 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. Women feed families, carry water, and collect fuel. This is not counted as work. In both developed and developing countries, women work 35 hours more than men every week.