Women and girl children across the world continue to suffer from discrimination, violence, unequal rights and opportunities. Empowering women to have control over what happens to their bodies and lives is morally essential and also happens to be the most effective way to reduce fertility rates and achieve a sustainable population size that respects the limits of Earth’s carrying capacity. Let’s see how much you know about gender equality.

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Women account for …% of the world’s illiterate people

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How many girl children do not have the opportunity to attend secondary school?

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How much more unpaid labour is done by women than by men?

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From the age of 15, how many women in the European Union have experienced sexual harassment at least once?

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions to family planning services. This led to an estimated … unintended pregnancies in the first year of the pandemic.

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What does FGM stand for?

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According to the 2021 State of the World Population Report, only …% of women in low- to middle-income countries are able to make choices over their own health care, contraception and the ability to say yes or no to sex.

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Despite existing laws against child marriage, this harmful practice continues to be rampant due to poor enforcement. How many girls (under the age of 18 years) are married each minute?

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How many countries do not have any legislation that addresses the issue of marital rape?

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Educating girls and securing women’s voluntary right to high-quality family planning together could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by …?

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How many countries can claim to have achieved gender equality in totality?

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