And women are still chopping firewood every day and cooking. KRISTOF Most of the arguments about focusing on women’s rights around the world tend to be about justice issues. Women haven’t had a seat at the table to say, let’s put down $10 million for a really robust household survey. The foundation made an announcement with a number of partners we had pulled together to say, let’s systematically collect data about women, and let’s start to see where can we actually make investments that will change things for women. So the data actually speaks the truth, and we need to collect data about women so that we make investments in the world on behalf of women’s issues.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2018 21:45 UTC