9 Key Issues Affecting Girls and Women Around the World

1. Access to Education
2. Employment Opportunities
3. Reproductive Health & Rights
4. Maternal Health
5. Gender-based Violence
6. Child Marriage
7. Female Genital Mutilation
8. Water & Sanitation
9. Gender Equality

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/9-key-issues-affecting-girls-and-women-around-the/

I was interested to see the key issues affecting girls and women around the world. I found this list and child marriage really caught my attention. The website states, “An estimated 140 million girls will become child brides between 2011 and 2020 . Girls who marry before age 18 are typically denied an education, at risk of complications related to premature childbearing, and more vulnerable to intimate partner violence.” This is an extremely large number of children who are forced to become wives as children. Along with being forced into marriage, they increase their rate of abuse and birth complications.