Extreme poverty won’t end until gender inequality ends. That’s the unavoidable reality. The continued oppression of women around the world generates the cycles of poverty that seem so hard to break. When a woman is denied a full education, equal employment opportunities, healthcare, access to food and water and political influence, she is set up for a life of poverty, which then gets passed onto her children, who are more likely to live in poverty and pass on poverty–the cycle goes on and on. 

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