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Twenty years ago First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke in Beijing before the Fourth World Conference on Women and declared: “If there is one message that echoes from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.”
We noted in a previous blog that 79 countries restrict the type of jobs women can do just on the grounds of their sex.
Domestic violence — overwhelmingly against women — is by far the most common form of violence in the world. About 350 million women across the planet have suffered severe physical violence from their intimate partner.
It’s no surprise that rich countries outperform poor countries on standardized tests. But if you compare kids with similar household wealth across countries, that gap disappears.
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