Insight - Campaigners on a mission to ensure 'sexist data' reflects women's realities


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 May 2016

COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Data, once the domain of geeks, is being put at the centre of women's rights by campaigners arguing current statistics are sexist and need to have "soul" that reflects women's real lives.

While the 193 U.N. member states last year agreed a new set of 17 global goals aiming to end inequality and extreme poverty by 2030, campaigners are finding more and more holes in official data to track where and which women and girls need help.

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