; (3) on average, the ratio of women’s employment to population dropped more than that of men due to the COVID–19 pandemic according to the International Labour Organization; (4) UN Women, the United Nations Development Programme, and the University of Pardee Center for International Futures estimated that the COVID–19 pandemic put 388,000,000 women and girls at risk of falling into extreme poverty in 2022, compared to 372,000,000 men and boys, worsening the already existing gender-poverty gap; (5) worldwide, women have shouldered the bulk of unpaid care and domestic work resulting from the pandemic, and even prior to the pandemic, women on average performed more than three times the amount of unpaid work relative to men; (6) the COVID–19 pandemic disrupted efforts to end child marriage, and could result in an additional 13,000,000 child marriages taking place between 2020 and 2030 that would otherwise have been averted; (7) nearly 12,000,000 women lost access to family planning services and 1,400,000 unintended pregnancies in low- and middle-income countries occurred in just the first year of the pandemic; (8) an estimated 243,000,000 women worldwide were subjected to sexual or physical violence by an intimate partner between April 2019 and April 2020, and 45 percent of women have been exposed to at least one form of violence against women either directly or indirectly since the start of the pandemic; and (9) due to the disruption of programs to prevent female genital mutilation in response to COVID–19, an additional 2,000,000 female genital mutilation cases will need to be averted to eradicate the practice by 2030