Tell Congress to Promote Gender Equality

Empowering women can end hunger for good and transform communities in the process. It is essential for women to have equal access to financial resources and food in order to build a world without hunger. Right now, women and girls account for 60% of the 345 million people worldwide facing severe hunger. 

At the current rate of progress, it’ll take 300 years for the world to fully reach gender equality. Until then, women will continue to be disproportionally impacted by the global hunger crisis:

- In countries experiencing conflict and hunger, women often eat last and least.
- While more than half of the world’s agricultural workers are women, only 13% actually own the land they farm. When women do own land, their harvests are 20-30% lower than men’s. This difference is not from lack of skill but because in most cases women do not have equal access to loans and tools.
- Certain structural and cultural inequalities disempower women. For example, on average, women have only three-quarters of the legal protections given to men.

Will you ask your elected leaders in Congress to support the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its work to promote gender equality and fight hunger around the world now? Send a message to your representatives today!