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Estimated benefit to global output of closing gender gaps in labour force participation and management in OECD countries alone – Moody’s Analytics 2023.
Estimated worldwide reduction in the number of people going hungry if women had equal access to resources like land and credit
– FAO 2011.
The increased likelihood that peace agreements will last 15 years or more when women are involved in negotiations
– UN Women 2015.
The number of countries that have delivered full legal equality for all women and girls
– World Bank Group 2024.
In 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 189 governments agreed to a global blueprint for women’s rights and equality. Thirty years on, legal inequality persists across the world. And in some cases, it’s getting worse.
In the sixth edition of our flagship Words & Deeds report, we examine how governments have failed to repeal or amend sex-discriminatory laws and highlight the urgent reforms needed to achieve full legal equality for women and girls.
At Equality Now, we combine deep legal expertise with global reach and influence to demand, shape and steer the change needed to secure enduring gender equality and create a just world for all women and girls.
Since our inception in 1992, we’ve played a pivotal role in the reform of 130 discriminatory laws worldwide – positively impacting the lives of millions of women and girls, their communities and nations, both now and for generations to come.
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