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Women's unpaid Labour

Worldwide, women and girls perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. This work adds $10.8 trillion to the economy every year.

With this unpaid "shadow-labour" alone, women contribute as much as 6.6 percent to the global GDP.

It exceeds the combined revenue of the 50 largest companies on last year’s , including Walmart, Apple and Amazon.

(Data via Oxfam & ILO)

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Sex Trafficking Worldwide

Globally, 4.8 million victims get trafficked for the sex industry every year.

This category includes any adults who involuntarily participate in the sex industry and children experiencing commercial sexual exploitation. 3.8 million victims were adults, and 1 million were children. Globally, 99% of victims were women and girls.

(Data sourced via traffickinginstitute.org)

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Human Trafficking & the Sex Industry

Human trafficking is the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world, second only to drug trafficking.

Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation.

Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for 29%. This encompasses all forms of human trafficking, of which the two most common forms are forced labour trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Concerning sex trafficking specifically, over 94% of victims are female.

If we add all child victims - girls and boys - to the number of sex trafficked women, we get over 99% of all victims in sexual slavery.

Studies suggest that only about 0.04% survivors of human trafficking cases get ever identified, meaning that the vast majority of cases of human trafficking go undetected. 

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Forced Marriage & Child Brides

Forced marriage is still a very prevalent violation of human rights worldwide, especially for women and girls. 88% of victims were women and girls.

37% of victims were under 18 at the time of the marriage. Of these, 44% were under 15 at the time of the marriage.

Each year, 12 million girls under 18 are getting married off. Most of these scenarios consist of the girl getting married off to a much older - adult - man.

The UN report (linked below) states that globally, in 2021, nearly 1 in 5 women aged 20-24 were married before turning 18.

(UN - Report "Gender Snapshot 2022"; general report on women's rights & equality worldwide)

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The Gender Wealth-Gap & owning Land

Less than 15% of landholders worldwide are women, despite most women in the global south working in agriculture.

(source: Food and Agriculture Organization, 2015; World Bank, 2019).

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Owning your own Wages

In the US, only from 1900 on, married women were allowed to keep their own wages and register property in their own name and with that were allowed at least some control over their own property and earnings.

Women then had still not the status of full personhood before the law (which is what is actually meant with 'equality' & 'emancipation'); they were still at the mercy of their husbands (or fathers) who could decide if they were even allowed to work in the first place, since the idea that “a married woman's legal existence was incorporated into that of her husband” forced them into a situation of complete dependance. That is why the ability to work and have one's own funds was and still is so crucial to female liberation.

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First Patent officially held by a Woman (in the US)

Mary Dixon Kies was the first woman to apply for and receive a U.S. patent in her own name. Her patent, issued May 5, 1809, was for a process for weaving straw with silk that was adopted by the New England hat-making industry.

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Hi together!

@radicalfacts will be my new additional sideblog (besides @radicalfiles) for exclusively feminist content - short-form posts containing bullet-point type facts about feminism & women as an addition to more "traditional" blog posts.

I hope to be able to reach even more people with this format - especially people that may weren't as aware and informed on feminism & women's issues before.

There can never be enough facts & knowledge :)

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