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The gender pay gap for people in full-time work in the UK is 10% and in the US it is 21%
Around 70% of people working minimum-wage jobs are woman
Only 17% of board directors of FTSE 100 companies and 4.6% of Fortune 500 companies are women
Only 1 in 4 MPs is a woman, and women from minority ethnic groups make up only 1.2% of MPs, yet comprise 4% of the UK population.
Just 23% of reporters on national daily newspapers in the UK and 37% in the US are women.
In the US 85% of domestic abuse victims are women and one third of female homicide victims are killed by intimate partners.
Around 85,000 women in the UK and 293,000 women in the US are sexually assaulted each year.
At least 75% of mothers have primary responsibility for childcare in the home.
Almost one in three girls have experienced unwanted sexual touching at school.
One in four women in Britain will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.


Sources: Violence Policy Centre, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of Justice, Centre for American Progress, UK Feminista, and Refuge UK.

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