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An average woman in the UK will own 111 handbags in her lifetime.
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68% of women would have an affair if they knew they could get away with it.
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Women think about their appearance 9 times a day
Only 2% of women describe themselves as beautiful.
Women speak about 20,000 words a day. That’s 13,000 more than the average man.
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19 out of 20 richest women in the world inherited their money from either their husbands or their father.
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The average woman in the UK owns 19 pairs of shoes, butwears only 7.
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Women spend nearly one year of their lives deciding what to wear.
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Women cry on average between 30 and 64 times a year, while men cry between 6 and 17 times.

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Every 90 seconds, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth. Most of these deaths are preventable, but due to gender-based discrimination many women are not given the proper education or care they need.[1]
As many as 1 in 4 women experience physical or sexual violence during pregnancy. Take a stand and collect cell phones to benefit domestic violence programs. Sign up for Cell Phones for Survivors.[2]
Women make up 80% of all refugees and displaced people. Instruments of genocide such as sexual violence and rape are often directed at women and girls.[3]
Women are seldom included in formal peace processes. Women are usually not represented among decision-makers and military leaders, the usual participants in these processes.[4]
Women gained the right to vote in America in 1920.[5]
As of January 2012, women held 15.1% of all presiding officer posts in governments the world.[6]
More than 16.4 million women in the world have HIV/AIDS.[7]
The US government estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 victims (mostly women and children) are trafficked globally each year, and 14,500 to 17,500 are trafficked into the US.[8]
Women account for 70% of the population living in absolute poverty (on less than $1.00 a day).[9]
Over 60 million girls worldwide are child brides, married before the age of 18.[10]
603 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not yet considered a crime.[11]
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