Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022

The report states that over 380 million women and girls are presently living in conditions of extreme poverty – on less than $1.90 a day.

In 2021, nearly one in three women experienced moderate or severe food insecurity.

Over 1.2 billion women and girls, in 2022, live in countries which restrict access to safe abortion in some degree.

Protracted conflict endangers education, the report states. Across the world, about 54 per cent of girls who have not in formal education live in crisis-affected countries.

The report states that one in every 10 women (aged 15-49 years) suffered sexual or physical violence, or both, by an intimate partner in 2021.

Shutting down of schools and day-cares in 2020 increased the time women spent on unpaid childcare by 512 billion hours.

Every year, the lack of clean water claims the lives of more than 800,000 women and girls every year.

In the fields of science, engineering and information and communication technology jobs, women hold only two in every 10 position globally.

Focus and factoids by Siddhant Garud.

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