At a glance: How do women live around the world?

How significant is the social inequality between genders? Where are advancements being made, and where are there issues? The Women's Atlas by Joni Seager, a professor of Global Studies in Boston, provides comprehensive answers through 164 infographics, based on the most important international studies from recent years. In 50 countries, regulations dictate how women should dress for religious reasons. Twice as many women as men cannot read, and this ratio has not changed in over 20 years. At the current pace of progress, the gender gap will still exist in 217 years.