Women Own 1% of the World's Property

There was a lovely article I read written by Soraya Chemaly entitled, "Women Own 1% of the World's Property. Occupy That!" The UN has a particular field just for women and researching the inequalities women suffer around the world. Well this article brought to light some of these statistics and one of the most shocking, being the percent of women who own property. She also discusses the belief that some people have that the Occupy movement is feminist at it's core, but she points out:

"Men's visits... have been consistently reported -- just perform a basic internet search for Michael Moore, Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Cornel West or Chris Hedges. But what about Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eve Ensler and Susan Sarandon, to name a few?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/women-own-1-of-the-worlds_b_1076715.html

Few of the statistics that the article mentions:

• There is a direct link between increased female labour participation and growth: It is estimated that if women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same level as men’s, America’s GDP would be 9 percent higher; the euro-zone’s would be 13 percent higher, and Japan’s would be boosted by 16 percent
• Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property
• In Sri Lanka, food took up to a quarter of migrant women workers’ wages in 2008, so women since then have reduced their meals from three to two times a day and/or reduced the quality of their diet in response to declining wages and dramatic increases in the costs of basic necessities

http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/women_poverty_economics/facts_figures.php