The Hidden Economics of Female Genital Mutilation

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200 million girls and women alive today have experienced FGM, or female genital mutilation. That’s about 5 percent of women and girls around the globe. How can the world finally end this?

On today’s episode of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women – our first of Season 3 – reporter Eunice Maina explains how financial factors incentivize women to perpetuate this practice, and interviews a group of girls who are tackling this head on.

Later in the episode, host Reena Ninan speaks with Caroline Lagat, a program officer at Equality Now. Lagat works largely on legal ways to end FGM.

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