Project 2 | Part Three: Statistically Binary

Random Statistics

� Every jet fighter sold by a developed country to a developing country costs the schooling of three million children

� Eighty percent of the world's people live in developing countries.

� Ninety-five percent of the next generation's children will be born to women there.

� Seventy percent of those women live on less than $1 per day.

� Ninety percent of those women labor on average 35 hours more per week than the typical paid workman. None of their work is reflected in the GDP.

� Women in developing countries produce 80 percent of the food and receive 10 percent of the agricultural assistance.

� Seventy percent are illiterate.

� For every year that women attend school beyond the fourth grade, the birth rate declines 20 percent.

� Fifty percent of women over age 18 can neither read nor write.

� Less than one percent of the world's assets are held in the name of women.

Women compose 49% of the world's population, but hold only 11% of the seats in the world's parliaments. Of the 185 highest-ranking diplomats to the United Nations, seven are women.

Source: UN Fourth World Conference on Women, September 1995. www.penpress.org

Women and Violence
� Everyday, 6000 girls are genitally mutilated.

� Every year in India, 5000 brides are murdered or commit suicide because their marriage dowries are considered inadequate.

� In Russia, half of all murder victims are women killed by their male partners.

� In the US, one in five women will be victims of rape in their lifetime. A woman is raped every 3 minutes.
Women and Armed Conflict

� 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes.

� In times of conflict, women and children are sold into forced servitude and slavery.

� In the former Yugoslavia, 20,000 women and girls (reported) were raped during the first months of the war.

Women and Work
� Women feed families, carry water, and collect fuel. This is not counted as work.

� 90% of the rural female labor force are called "housewives" and excluded from the formal definition of economic activity.

� In both developed and developing countries, women work 35 hours more than men every week.

� Women produce 80% of the food on the planet, but receive less than 10% of agricultural assistance.

� Women occupy only 2% of senior management positions in business.

Women and Education
� 70% of the world's illiterates are female.

� Two-thirds of the children who receive less than four years of education are girls.

� For every year beyond fourth grade that girls attend to school, family size drops 20%, child deaths drop 10%, and wages rise 20%; yet, the international aid dedicated to education is declining.

� Worldwide, more than half the population of women over age 15 cannot read or write.

Women and Health and Family
� Worldwide, women suffer greater malnutrition than men.

� Some 600,000 women-- one every minute-- die each year from pregnancy-related causes. Most of these deaths are preventable.

� As children, girls are undervalued, fed less, and receive inadequate healthcare.

� Parents, particularly in China and India, use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7999 were female.

� In Africa, for every HIV infected boy there are six HIV infected girls.

� Women traditionally eat last and least. They do not get more to eat even during pregnancy and nursing.

Women and Money  
� A scant 1% of the world's assets are in the name of women.

� 70% of people in abject poverty (living on less than $1 per day) are women.

� Nowhere in the world where women's wages are equal to those of men.

� Only 5% of those in need of microcredit access are receiving it.

� In America, more than one-third of all women-headed households fall below the poverty line.

� In Silicon Valley, for every 100 shares of stock options owned by a man, only one share is owned by a woman.

Women and the Law
� Women are denied the knowledge, the means, and the freedom to act in their own and their children's best interests.

� The majority of the world's women cannot equally own, inherit, or control property, land, and wealth.

� In the Philippines, it took over 9 years to pass a law that makes rape a criminal offense.

Women and Politics
� Women are denied voice or power over the most fundamental human decisions, such as whether and when to bear children, to get an education, or to go to work.

� Out of more than 180 countries, only five are currently headed by women.

� 6% of the world's total cabinet ministers are women.

� Only 11% of members of national parliaments are women. In the U.S. 14% of ministers are women; in Guatemala 19% of ministers are women, and in Japan only 2% of all legislators are women.

� In UN agencies, only 11% of senior officials are women.

� There are only 6 women ambassadors to the UN.

Source: Azza Karam, et al., Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers (Stockholm, Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 1998); Joni Seager, The State of Women in the World Atlas (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1997); United Nations The World's Women 1995: Trends and Statistics (New York: United Nations, 1995); United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); and United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1995 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
 

This page was made for educational reasons.
This project is in collaboration with Bachelor of Electronic Arts & Bachelor of Fine Arts course offered at University of Western Sydney
Made by Kylie Hogan and Jacky Fan | Tuesday, 23rd of September 2003