A new study published by the international organisation Action Aid titled The Price of Privilege: Extreme Wealth, Unaccountable Power and the Fight for Equality in the 21st century, reveals that women in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia earn 80% less than their male counterparts, says a report in Dhaka Tribune. The study also reveals that inequalities of all kinds – based on gender, race, class and other factors – are on the rise even as they are increasingly being challenged. Over half the world’s wealth is controlled by the wealthiest 1% of its population, and the poorer half of the world has less than 1% control of wealth.
The report found that women from 32 countries contributed as much as $3 trillion in labour value to global healthcare in 2010. Nearly half of this work was unpaid. The report recommends that women’s unpaid care burden should be reduced, and redistributed.

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