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. Women around the world continue to be significantly under-represented in the higher paid, higher prestige sectors of the workforce. Among the developing countries of Ecuador and the Bahamas, one-third of the workforce is comprised of women administrators and managers. Gender Violence Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury and death for women worldwide.