Working together to end poverty and injustice

Gender equality

Oxfam works with groups like Kup Women for Peace in Papua New Guinea, helping to fight discrimination and violence toward women.

You’re more likely to be poor if you are a woman. That’s a fact.

Of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide, more than two-thirds are women and girls.

Campaigning for gender equality is an important part of Oxfam's work, and putting an end to discrimination and unfair treatment is key to eliminating global poverty and injustice.

Here's why:

• Women make up 75% of the world's work force
• Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours
• Women produce the majority of the world’s food
• Women earn only 10% of the world’s income
• Women own less than 1% of the world’s property

Oxfam is working with women across the Pacific and Southeast Asia who are speaking out against the discrimination they face while attempting to bring about positive change to secure their basic human rights.

• Where we work
• Women in the developing world: facts and stats

Ending violence against women

Violence against women is universal. It injures or kills one in three women across the world.

Oxfam is working with partners and campaigners around the world to change policies, practices, ideas and beliefs, to break the silence and to bring an end to violence against women.

• Ending violence against women

How we work

The right to gender equality underpins all Oxfam’s work across the world. Gender discrimination, or the denial of women’s basic human rights, is a major cause of poverty worldwide.

• How we work

Oxfam Unwrapped

By buying a gift from Oxfam Unwrapped you can help support our gender justice work. Take a look at Oxfam Unwrapped's Protect Women gift or Microfinance a Woman pack to support women in overcoming gender based violence or starting their own business.