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February 10, 2025 at 02:45 PM
🔆 World Survey on Women in Development
📍 Key Findings
👩👧 Limited Social Protection: Over 2 billion women and girls lack access to cash benefits, unemployment insurance, pensions, and healthcare.
🤰 Maternity Benefits Gap: 63% of women worldwide give birth without access to maternity benefits.
⚠️ Gender Risks: Vulnerabilities worsen due to conflict, climate change, and economic shocks.
📍 About UN Women
🌍 Established: July 2010 through a UN General Assembly resolution.
🔗 Formed by merging:
✅Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
✅International Research and Training Institute for Women (INSTRAW)
✅Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues (OSAGI)
✅UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
🏢 Headquarters: New York City, USA.
🎯 Focus: Achieving gender equality and empowering women globally.
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