Cruzeiro EC, a football team in Brazil, did something special to mark International Women’s Day (8th March).
In partnership with Umbro, the club printed statistics on the players’ shirts tying in with their regular squad numbers. The stats were collected by NGO AzMina – an organisation that fights for women’s empowerment – to illustrate the difficulties faced in Brazil for women.
“A lot of people think that the fight for women’s rights doesn’t make sense anymore, but the data that the players will wear shows that this is still a current issue” – Leticia Bahia, director of NGO AzMina
Some details from the shirts:
- Every 11 minutes a woman is raped
- 33% suffer with street harrassment
- Only 12% of the mayors in Brazil are women
- 17% are forced to share a prison with men
- 25% have post-natal depression
- 38% of women murdered were killed by their partners
- 35% of women have experienced harassment on public transport
- Only 37% of employees in large companies are women
- In films, only 29% of protagonists are women
- Women’s wages are 30% lower
- In 23% of municipalities, there are no females on the council
- Three out of ten women have been kissed against their will
- Out of ten unemployed people, seven of them will be women
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