Nearly 70 per cent of the world's poorest people and two thirds of those who are illiterate are women. Every year around 530,000 women die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, 99 per cent of them in developing countries. Across the world women carry out more than 66 per cent of work done and produce 50 per cent of all food. In total, they possess only 1 per cent of global assets and make only 10 per cent of total income.
