How Close Are We to a World Where Girls are Equal?

There is no country where girls and women have equal opportunities to boys and men.

What to know:

  • Millions of women and girls are unable to achieve their full potential due to continued inequality and discrimination.
  • Unless these barriers are removed, women and girls will not have the opportunity to lead healthy, empowered lives.
  • Take the quiz and find out which key areas continue to hold back women and girls globally.

Learn More about this cause:

Ending extreme poverty cannot be achieved if half of the world’s population continues to be held back. 

The world has made remarkable strides toward achieving gender equality in the past 50 years, including increasing life expectancy and halving the rate of death during childbirth, but there is still a long way to go. Without fair access to health, education, reproductive rights and work, women will never achieve equality of opportunity. 

To create a world where #SheIsEqual, we must first understand what the world looks like for girls and women today, where we’re going wrong, and what needs to be done. 

Take the quiz to learn about how close we really are to a world where #SheIsEqual.