Best and Worst Places to be a WOMAN

Kara, Kat and Mackenzie

Australia vs. congo

Data comparison

AUS CONGO

Average Age of

mariage29.7 20.8

Life Expectan

cy84 55

Child Mortality

/10005 39

Females with HIV

7% 54%

Females with HIV

10/1000 39/1000

Median Age

37.7 17

Congo

137 gender inequality index

7.7% seats in parliament

70% work in agriculture - unindustrialized, rural

10.7% go onto having secondary education

COngo Rape

400 000 women raped annually 'RAPE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD' (11 thousand per day)

spousal rape not criminalized

no money, no transportation, connection to leave place

raped everywhere (fields, market, road)

2nd class citizens, few opportunities to make gender changes

Congo other problems

militia loots, raids, burns villages

"product of product of many years of war and humanitarian disasters"

Congo other problems

married women cannot:

get a job/pursue a trade or profession

register a business

sign a contract

be the 'head of household'

open a bank account

choose where to live

...the same way as a man.

Australia

18th GII

95% secondary education

70% labour force

Australia women empowerment

1st countries to vote and parliament 1895

1969 pay of work for equal value

36% of senior executive positions

Australia

woman prime minister: julia gillard

12 months maternal leave

social assistant system financed by state

70% contraceptives

99% of births attended by skilled physicians

Sources

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/Worldswomen/Annex%20tables%20-%20Pdf/Statistical%20Annex.pdf

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