TInnGO project is celebrating the International Day of Rural Women by organising the webinar: Rurality and Gender on 15th October 2020, 10:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m. CEST

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Did you know?

  • Rural women – a quarter of the world’s population – work as farmers, wage earners, and entrepreneurs.
  • Less than 20% of landholders worldwide are women. In rural areas, the gender pay gap is as high as 40%.
  • Reducing the gap in labour force participation rates between men and women by 25% by the year 2025 could raise global GDP by 3.9%.
  • If women in rural areas had the same access to agricultural assets, education, and markets as men, agricultural production could be increased, and the number of hungry people reduced by 100-150 million.

Rural women are key agents for achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. But limited access to credit, health care and education are among the many challenges they face, which are further aggravated by the global food and economic crises and climate change. Empowering them is key not only to the well-being of individuals, families and rural communities, but also to overall economic productivity, given women’s large presence in the agricultural workforce worldwide.

Read more in United Nations’ Women website.

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.