Poorer if you're a woman?

We live in an unequal world. There is wealth everywhere, but millions of people still go hungry, don't have access to education, or die of diseases we can prevent.

But poverty is disproportionate - 70 per cent of the world's poorest people are women and girls.

Why is this the case? In many countries, the status of women and girls is lower than men and boys.

When women aren't spending most of their day hauling buckets of water over long distances, they are expected to care for sick family members, but are often the last to be sent to school and the first to be taken out of school when money is short.

Tomorrow, (8 March) is International Women's Day. Oxfam supporters will be coming together to put on events to show how poverty disproportionately affects women, and to celebrate how women are working against the odds to overcome poverty.

At Oxfam, ensuring women's rights are met is a vital part of what we do, wherever we do it.

To highlight how women are fighting back against poverty, we've put together two inspirational narrated slideshows of women in Liberia and Yemen who are working against the odds to fight back against poverty.

Public services, like healthcare and education, routinely fail woman and girls, yet investing in their welfare is the cornerstone of making poverty history - increasing their life chances and those of their children.

You can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with women in poor countries this International Women's Day, by signing our Six Million More pledge and demanding a world where everyone has access to healthcare and education.