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Alice Crucco, Federico Graziato, Lorenzo Buttiglieri e Giannone Giorgia

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Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress. On average, women in the labor market still earn 23% less than men globally and women spend about three times as many hours in unpaid domestic and care work as men. Sexual violence and exploitation, the unequal division of unpaid care and domestic work, and discrimination in public office, all remain huge barriers. All these areas of inequality have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Worldwide, nearly half of married women lack decision-making power over their sexual and reproductive health and rights. 35 % of women between 15-49 years of age have experienced physical and/ or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence.

Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender. This inequality can be caused by gender discrimination or sexism. Gender inequality is experienced differently across different cultures. Generally, the women employed in agriculture are more likely to be engaged as contributing family workers whereas men are more likely to be engaged on their own account as workers generating an income. In addition, women often spend more time than men on activities such as food processing and food preparation for the household, child and elder care, water and fuel collection and other unpaid household duties. Gender equality started to drastically change in America when women gained the right to vote in 1920. After the first International Women’s conference in 1975, women had more avenues to advocate for their rights globally. However, gender inequality is still ongoing today. Some examples include women working longer hours than men, women suffering from education inequality throughout the world, being unable to express themselves freely, and being underpaid for performing the same as men