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Women aren't faring as well as men two years into an economic recovery, according to a new Pew Research study.
Men lowered their unemployment rate by over 1 percent since the recession ended in June 2009. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for women rose 0.2 percent. It is the first time since 1970 that men have fared better than women in the first two years of an economic recovery.
A first report from the new agency UN Women shows that over half of working women in the world, 600 million, are trapped in insecure jobs without legal protection. A similar number do not have even basic protection against domestic violence.
Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women called this report "a powerful call to action" and added that "...full equality demands that women become men's true equals in the eyes of the law - in their home and working lives, and in the public sphere."
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