DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMENOnline version DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN by JULIA DEL PUERTO 1 In education 2 In the work place 3 At home Female schooling rate is higher than ever before The educational gap persists in the less developed regions Reasons for girls dropping out of school include child marriage and traditional gender roles UNESCO estimates that 16 million girls will never attend primary school In 2021, only 46% of working-age women in the world would work Women earn 25% less than men According to the World Bank, in 86 countries, women face some form of work restriction More and more women are working outside the home 49 countries do not have measures to protect women On average, women spend more than twice as much time as men on household chores It is also at home were occurs the gender-based, physical, sexual or psychological violence