As part of International Women's Day, Kiva microfinance organization is sponsoring $3 million (!!!) in free loans to women as a way to empower women, and, by making their lives better, make everyone's lives better.
Go here to make a free loan through March 8, 2017: kiva.org/investinher
We have the data (links below), and treating women as full human beings with equal access to education, healthcare, jobs, and every aspect of full participation in public life, means better outcomes not only for the women, but for their children and families.
Not everyone chooses to have children, but everyone existing was born. Making women's lives better will make everyone's lives better.
Relevant readings on this from the United Nations:
http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/sites/gem-report/files/girls-factsheet-en.pdf
http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/economic-empowerment/facts-and-figures
http://blogs.worldbank.org/health/female-education-and-childbearing-closer-look-data
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