Why the Majority of the World’s Poor Are Women

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Lower-paid, unpaid, undervalued: gender inequality in work

Baher Kamal's avatarHUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

(Oxfam)* — Gender inequality is one of the oldest and most pervasive forms of inequality in the world. It denies women their voices, devalues their work and make women’s position unequal to men’s, from the household to the national and global levels.

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Hoan works at the Tinh Loi Garment Factory, in North Vietnam, where she works on average 62 hours each week, earning around $1 an hour, packaging t-shirts and shirts for global export. Photo: Adam Patterson/Oxfam
Hoan works at the Tinh Loi Garment Factory, in North Vietnam, where she works on average 62 hours each week, earning around $1 an hour, packaging t-shirts and shirts for global export. Photo: Adam Patterson/Oxfam

Despite some important progress to change this in recent years, in no country have women achieved economic equality with men, and women are still more likely than men to live in poverty.

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