Women Face Bias Worldwide According to the UN

This brief article from BBC discusses a UN-commissioned report which as found that women are discriminated against in almost every country in the world. The report was compiled from the legal perspective and focuses on divorce, maternity benefits, legal age of marriage etc.

While it is absolutely necessary that laws do not discriminate, it is also extremely important that in countries where laws do exist, they are enforced. In many countries, the commitment to women is only on paper and fails to become reality. Especially with laws which encroach into the private sphere, like ones that prohibit marital rape, prosecution is often not enforced.