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Bill and Melinda Gates: No matter where you're born, 'life will be harder if you are born a girl'
Bill and Melinda Gates say inequality is holding women — and society in general — back, in The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Goalkeepers Data Report.
www.cnbc.com
That’s because starting from a young age, boys’ and girls’ lives diverge: Females receive less education than boys, they marry earlier and they do more unpaid care work, according to the report.
They transition, sometimes at a very young age, from being subservient to their parents to being subservient to their husbands. Although they enjoyed some measure of freedom while attending primary school, they are expected to return to the confines of the home, to devote themselves to cooking, cleaning and raising children
Women are also paid less than men for work they do outside the home. In the U.S., women earn 80 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn, according to Equal Pay Today. The wage gap is greatest for Latina women, who earn 53 cents for every dollar men earn, followed by Native American women (58 cents) and Black women (61 cents). White women earn 77 cents for every dollar, and Asian-American women earn 85 cents.
+ More expensive haircut due to salons being sexist
+ Pregnancy
+ More likely to experience physical/sexual violence and harassment
+ Does not age as well as men (Source: GAF)
Just setting the facts straight here.