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Description

Young people think about different percentages relate to gender.

Resources

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Instructions

Draw an invisible line across the hall and tell young people that one end represents 0, the other 100 (or stick the attached numbers on notice boards on one side of the hall).
You read a series of questions (all with percentage answers) and get them to stand along the line depending on what they think the answer is. Questions and answers have come from various UK/world internet sources and are based on 2018 and 2024 data where indicated. Extra information you might like to share with the Scouts is written after the answers.

Start question (to check the Scouts know how it works)
What percentage of the world's population are women? Answer - 49.55%

Questions
What percentage of women in UK aged 16-64 are employed/in education? - 71% (2024)
What percentage of men in UK aged 16-64 are employed/in education? - 77% (2024)
In the UK, what percentage of MPs are women? 40% (2024)
What percentage of elected heads of state (e.g. prime ministers, presidents) are women? 7% - that's 15 countries
What percentage of countries have NEVER had an elected female leader over the past 100 years? 62%
What percentage of elected officials around the world are women? - 24%
130 million children around the world are not in school. What percentage of these are girls? - 70% (2 in three children in Sudan out of education are girls, in the Yemen this is 4 out of 5)
Of all of the illiterate adults around the world, what percentage of these are women? 67%
What percentage of all pilots in the world are women? 6% (India has the highest percentage of female pilots at 15%) (2024)
What percentage of countries offer paid maternity leave? 95% (Among other countries, The USA does not guarantee paid maternity leave at a federal level, but some states do)
What percentage of countries around the world allow women to drive? 100% (Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive in 2018, though there are still some political prisoners in jail who were arrested while protesting the law)
What percentage of rough sleepers are men? 87%
What percentage of the UKs suicides are by men? 77% (2024)
In the UK, of all the senior positions in companies, what percentage are held by women? 36% (up from 18% in 2004)

Figures updated with latest 2024 figures

Tags

• gender
• gender equality
• International Womens Day

Badge Links

• World - Gender & Disabilities
• World - International issue