The following is an article written by Romaine Seguin of UPS.
‘We can’t improve a woman’s standard of living if we can’t improve a woman’s chance of living.’
The only way women are going to advance in the global economy is by having income, which means work.
But according to United Nations studies, only about half of the world’s women participate in the labor force. Despite their under-representation, women comprise 60 percent of the world’s working poor. What’s more, a 2014 World Bank report shows that, on average, women earn 10 to 30 percent less than men for comparable work.