The State

of Women
International Women’s Day 2018
This is a snapshot of a big
and complex story.
We’ve organized it into the
Bad, the Ugly, and the Good
(to end on a hopeful note).
 Good. The Bad. Th
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Men still run the world
 Worldwide

Women lead 11 of 195 countries

Source: UN Women
Worldwide

The UN has never had a

female Secretary-General

Source: Council on Foreign Relations; Image: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images News

Worldwide

Women hold 23% of

seats in parliaments

Source: UN Women; Image: Carl Court/Getty Images News

 United States

4 of 113 Supreme Court

Justices have been women

Source: Rutgers; Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Entertainment

 United States

Women hold 20% of seats in

the U.S. Congress
Source: CAWP
 United States

Women of color hold 7% of seats

in Congress
Source: CAWP
 United States

6 states have female governors

Source: Rutgers
 United States

Only 1 is a woman of color

Source: CAWP
 United States

And only 1 is an openly gay woman

Source: NPR
 Worldwide

Women hold only

12% of corporate
board seats

Source: Deloitte; Image: Hero Images/Getty Images

 United States

1 in 5 C-suite executives is a woman

Source: Women in the Workplace

 United States

And fewer than 1 in 30 is

a woman of color
Source: Women in the Workplace
 United States

Nearly 50% of men think womenda

are well represented when 1 in 10d
leaders is a womand
Source: Women in the Workplace; Image: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images
 There’s a gender imbalance
across nearly every major
industry in the United States
 United States
Education

23%

76%

Teachers Superintendents
Source: NCES and Ahead of the Heard
 United States
Nonprofits

43%
75%

Nonprofit workforce Nonprofit CEOs

Source: NCGS and Chicago Business
 United States
Finance

12%

61%

Accountants and auditors Fortune 500 CFOs

Source: Catalyst
 United States
Restaurants

19%

57%

Food prep workers Chefs

Source: Data USA
 Consider how this power
imbalance plays out in one
industry: the media
United States

1 of the 10 largest movie

studios is run by a woman

Source: Box Office Mojo; Image: Hero Images/Getty Images

 United States

Advertising agencies:
2 out of 10

Source: Statista; Image: Alexander Spatari/Getty Images

United States

Media companies:
0 out of 10

Source: Investopedia; Image: JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images

The people in power
shape our culture
United States

91% of women say

advertisers don’t
understand them

Source: GirlPowerMarketing.com; Image: Yellow Tail, Super Bowl 2017

United States

Women’s sports get

3% of TV coverage

Source: WMC and USC; Image: Uconn Today

 United States

Far more mend

report the newsd

Source: WMC; Image: Ethan Miller/Getty Images News

All this inequality is having an
impact on our girls
Worldwide

At 6, girls start to see

themselves as less
talented than boys
Source: BBC; Image: Maskot/Getty Images
United States

46% of girls do not

speak up because
they want to be liked
Source: The Girls’ Index; Image: GeorgiaCourt/Getty Images
United States

1 in 3 girls are
afraid to lead

Source: The Girls’ Index; Image: LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images

 When women rise,
companies are stronger
and safer
 United States

Sexual harassment is 2X as commond

in male-dominated organizationsd
Source: WMC; Image: Matelly/Getty Images
 United States

When more women are ind

leadership, companyd
profits are higherd

Source: WMC; Image: Hero Images/Getty Images

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost
to our society just because that talent
wears a skirt.”

Shirley Chisholm
 Good. The Bad. Th
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Too many women and girls
are poor and marginalized
around the world
 Worldwide

70% of people living ind

extreme poverty ared
women and girlsd
Source: PCI and One; Image: Scott Nelson/Getty Images News
Worldwide

Fewer than 20% of thed

world’s landholders d
are womend

Source: UN and World Development; Image: Aditya Tandon/Getty Images

 Worldwide

Women are concentrated ind

lower-paid, lower-skilled jobsd

Source: UN; Image: Image: Philippe Roy/Getty Images

United States

Nearly two-thirdsd
of minimum-waged
workers are womend

Source: NWLC; Image: Mint Images RF/Getty Images

 Worldwide
On average, women are paid
23% less than men

11% 24%
Poland
Russia 37%
15% 11% Rep. of Korea

16.5% Israel
Pakistan
26%
Mexico Japan

16% 39%
Brazil Malawi
17% 14%
21% Botswana Australia
Chile

Source: UN Women
Worldwide

130 million girls are

not in school

Source: The ONE Campaign and UN; Image: Chris McGrath/Getty Images Europe
 Worldwide

On average, thered
are 15 million childd
marriages every yeard
Source: ICRW; Image: Allison Joyce/Getty Images News
 Women have far too little
control over our reproductive
health and choices
Worldwide

Almost half of all d

abortions worldwided
are unsafed

Source: UN, The World’s Women 2015, and WHO; Image: Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Images
United States

87% of countiesd
do not have and
abortion clinicd

Source: UN, The World’s Women 2015, and WHO; Image: Carlo107/Getty Images
Worldwide

Maternal mortalityd
is a leading cause ofd
death in women ofd
reproductive aged

Source: WHO and NPR; Image: Ian Waldie/Getty Images News

Worldwide

Modern contraception is d
out of reach for 214 milliond
women who want to avoidd
pregnancy d

Source: WHO and AVERT; Image: John Moore/Getty Images News

 United States

The United States is 1 ofd

only 2 countries with nod
paid maternity leaved

Source: Huffington Post and Brookings; Image: Ian Lishman/Getty Images

 Sexual harassment, sexual
assault, and violence against
women are pervasive
 United States

60%

60% of women have been

sexually harassed
Source: Quinnipiac
 Worldwide

1 in 3 women have experienced

physical and/or sexual violence

Source: WHO
Worldwide

120 million girls haved

experienced rape ord
forced sexual acts d

Source: UNICEF; Image: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images News

Women still lack fundamental
rights in many countries
Worldwide

46 countries do not provided

legal protection againstd
domestic violenced

Source: Global Citizen; Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images News

 Worldwide

In 26 countries,d
spousal rape is legald

Source: World Bank; Image: Allison Joyce/Getty Images News

 Worldwide

In 18 countries, ad
husband can prevent hisd
wife from taking a jobd

Source: World Bank ; Image: Hero Images/Getty Images

Human rights are women’s rights and
women’s rights are human rights.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton

 Good. The Bad. Th
ly. The Bad. The Go
ood. The Ugly. The
e Bad. The Good. T
y. The Bad. The Goo
Women and girls today have a
better chance of leading safe
and healthy lives...
 Worldwide

Since 1995, more than d

60 countries have maded

domestic violenced
illegal, bringing thed
total to at least 119d
Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNSD; Image: Uwe Krejci/Getty Images
Worldwide

Maternal deaths haved

fallen 42% in the same periodd
Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Image: Tara Moore/Getty Images
 Worldwide

Contraceptive used
is higher than it’sd
ever beend
Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Image: Tim Matsui/Getty Images News
Worldwide

The global gender educationd

gap has virtually closed ford
elementary-school-age girlsd
Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Image: Bartosz Hadyniak/Getty Images
 Slowly but surely, the
workplace is changing…
United States

90% of companies report genderd

diversity is a high priorityd

Source: Women in the Workplace 2016; Image: MoMo Productions/Getty Images

United States

175 CEOs signed thed

largest-ever commitment tod
diversity and inclusiond

Source: Fortune; Image: Hero Images/Getty Images

United States

Fearless Girl provoked ad

debate about women’sd
representation on Wall Streetd
Source: The Wall Street Journal; Image: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images
United Kingdom

The UK passed a lawd

requiring large companiesd
to publish pay informationd
by genderd

Source: Reuters; Image: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images

 Worldwide

Every month, women ind

162 countries meet ind
Lean In Circles to supportd
each other’s ambitionsd

Source: LeanIn.Org; Image: Lean In Kuwait

United States

Women are negotiating at the samed

rates as men (a decade ago mend
negotiated 2-3 times more)d

Source: Women in the Workplace 2017 and Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation, Linda Babcock; Image: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images
United States

For the first time, workersd

are as happy to have ad
female boss as a male bossd
Source: Gallup; Image: JohnnyGreig/Getty Images
 Around the world,
breakthroughs happened...
Saudi Arabia

Women got behind the

wheel in Saudi Arabia

Source: NY Times; Image: FAYEZ NURELDINE/Getty Images

United States

U.S. women’s soccer team d

won a victory for pay equityd

Source: Mother Jones; Image: Mike Hewitt/FIFA

India

For the first time, and

all-female flight crew d
circled the globed
Source: CNN; Image: CNN
 United States

The New York Times

hired its first-ever
gender editor

Source: Teen Vogue; Image: Andrew Burton/Getty Images News

 Australia

Senator Larissad
Waters breastfed ind
Australian Parliamentd

Source: NY Times; Image: NY Times

Worldwide

The year’s 3 top-grossing films all

featured women in lead roles

Source: Huffington Post and Forbes; Image: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment
Worldwide

Ibtihaj Muhammad inspired

the first hijab-wearing Barbie

Source: USA Today; Image: Glamour

Afghanistan

A girls’ robotics team fromd

Afghanistan competed ond
the world’s staged
Source: NY Times; Image: NY Times
 United States

The Girl Scouts announcedd

23 new badges in STEMd

Source: USA Today; Image: Steve Debenport/Getty Images

Women showed their
political power...
 United States

Kamala Harris smashedd

multiple glass ceilingsd

Source: LA Times and Roll Call; Image: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images News
United States

Maxine Watersd
reclaimed her timed
Source: Mashable and Washington Post; Image: Zach Gibson/Getty Images News
United States

Elizabeth Warren inspired ad

new rallying cry:d
“Nevertheless, she persisted”d
Source: CNN; Image: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images News
United States

98% of Black women in

Alabama made history by
electing Doug Jones

Source: Washington Post; Image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images News

 Worldwide

Several countries selectedd

a woman to lead them,d
including New Zealand,d
Iceland, and Serbiad
Source: BBC, NY Times, The Guardian; Image: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Worldwide

4+ million peopled
marched for women’sd
rights across 60 countriesd
and all 7 continentsd

Source: Vox; Image: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images News

Worldwide

The silence
breakers held men
accountable for
sexual harassment

Source: TIME; Image: TIME

Worldwide

Millions said #MeToo

Source: CBS News; Image: Business Insider

...and women won big
on Election Night
United States

Danica Roem was elected

as Virginia’s first openly
trans state lawmaker
Source: CNN; Image: CNN
 United States

Jenny Durkan becamed

Seattle’s first openlyd

lesbian mayorD
Source: NY Times; Image: Karen Ducey/Getty Images News
United States

Elizabeth Guzman and Hala Ayala

became the first Latinas in the
Virginia General Assembly
Source: NY Times; Image: Elizabeth Guzmán for Virginia and Hala Ayala for Delegate
Perspectives are
changing, too...
Worldwide

This was Getty Images’ top-sellingd

image for “woman” in 2017d

Source: Getty Images

Worldwide

Here’s the top-sellingd

image from 2007d

Source: Getty Images

Worldwide

The most talked-about d

moment on Facebook wasd
International Women’s DayD
Source: CNN; Image: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images News
Worldwide

Word of the year: Feminism

Source: US News; Image: samdiesel/Getty Images

So far this year…
 Iceland

Iceland passed the strongest

law in the world requiring equal
pay for women and men
Source: Fortune; Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Europe
 United States

More than 150 female

athletes bravely shared
their stories of abuse

Source: The Atlantic ; Image: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Sport

United Kingdom

Incoming women outnumbered

men at Oxford for the first time
in the school’s 900-year history
Source: NY Times; Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images News
United States

Team USA’s women won more

Olympic medals than the men
for the first time in 20 years
Source: The Huffington Post; Image: Jung Yeon-Je/Getty Images
United States

Oprah won the Cecil B. DeMille Award

and challenged and inspired us
Source: The New Yorker; Image: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment
United States

“Time’s Up” became

a global rallying cry

Image: NY Times
United States

For the second year in a

row, millions marched for
women’s rights

Source: USA Today; Image: Sam Morris/Getty Images News

United States

A record number of women

are running for political office

Source: Washington Post; Image: Roll Call

There are still many causes worth
sacrificing for, so much history yet
to be made.”

Michelle Obama
In the future, there will be no female
leaders. There will just be leaders.”

Sheryl Sandberg
Let’s make history.

Join us in the fight for

equality at leanin.org.
Special thanks to

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