Reliable, basic data on the lives of women and girls is missing—data like at what age women have their first child, how many hours of paid and unpaid work they do, or if they own the land they farm. Of the 2.3 billion people in the world who have access to the Internet, it is not known how many are women, or how women are using the Internet.
Data on the number of women in parliaments is available, but the number of women in local governments is lacking.
Clinton calls this lack of data “a black hole at the center of our data driven universe,” which prevents investors in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors who contribute toward women and societies in developing countries from getting the most out of their investments.
