Investing in Gender Equality: Ending Violence Against Women
This resource presents important data analysis and graphs from various countries of the world showing how gender equality and violence against women are correlated. Countries with greater progress on gender equality, girls' secondary education, and women’s reproductive health and rights (including maternal mortality) have lower levels of violence against women. The tool highlights how advancements in gender equality and reducing violence against women and girls is a ‘smart’ investment-- central to women's empowerment with high pay-offs for poverty reduction and development overall. The rigorous statistical analysis is based on the leading global gender equality indices and violence against women prevalence surveys, for countries for which such data was available through 2009.
This resource presents important data analysis and graphs from various countries of the world showing how gender equality and violence against women are correlated. Countries with greater progress on gender equality, girls' secondary education, and women’s reproductive health and rights (including maternal mortality) have lower levels of violence against women. The tool highlights how advancements in gender equality and reducing violence against women and girls is a ‘smart’ investment-- central to women's empowerment with high pay-offs for poverty reduction and development overall. The rigorous statistical analysis is based on the leading global gender equality indices and violence against women prevalence surveys, for countries for which such data was available through 2009.