Nearly 40% of women and girls, or 1.4 billion people, live in countries that are “failing on gender equality.”

According to recent data from some 90 countries, women devote on average roughly three times more hours a day to unpaid care and domestic work than men, limiting the time available for paid work, education and leisure and further reinforcing gender-based socioeconomic disadvantages.
Women are paid approximately 81 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of political leadership. As of 1 January 2019, women’s representation in national Parliaments ranged from 0 to 61.3%, with the average standing at 24.2%.
While women represented 39% of world employment, only 27% of managerial positions in the world were occupied by women in 2018.
35% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
Globally, one in five girls were married before age 18.

Zonta and its clubs advocate on a variety of issues related to gender equality and women’s empowerment through:

Ending Gender-Based Violence