International Women’s Day: Think Equal, Be Smart, Innovate for Change

Top 5 facts you might not know about women:

1. In almost every country, women work longer hours than men and get paid less;
2. The 2 highest EQs ever recorded on a standard test both belong to women;
3. Women produce HALF the world’s food but own only one percent of its farmland;
4. The world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, was written by a Japanese woman, Murasaki Shikibu, around AD 1000;
5. There are currently 17 countries with women as head of government, head of state, or both, which, according to the UN, has more than doubled since 2005.