Nowhere on earth do women have as many opportunities as men. Nowhere.

Last year ONE, a campaigning and advocacy organisation taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, released its first “Poverty is Sexist” report, aimed at pressuring leaders to put girls and women at the heart of key policies and decisions.

The report demonstrated:

1. That poverty and gender inequality go hand-in-hand.

Being born in a poor country and being born female amount to a double whammy for girls and women: they are significantly worse off than their counterparts in richer countries, and in every sphere they are hit harder by poverty than men.