This article talks about how financial opportunities for women around the world are being limited by government laws, and how the UN is taking steps into fixing this equality issue. Women are less likely to have access to money and digital tools. Statics show that 12% of women and girls are less likely to own a phone than men, 35% less likely to have access to the internet, and 32% less likely to have access to energy. Nandini Harihareswara, a senior advisor at the UNCDF’s focal point is to ensure that more women are able to take advantage of digital finance. I chose this article because it raises awareness about the financial inequality for women and how it affects women around the world. Not only did the article talk about the equality issue, it also states the many ways they are helping this problem. I like how this article included pictures and three different sections talking about different things related to this issue it helped to find information easily. This article relates to the story “The Friday Everything Changed” because in both the story and the article it has an equality issue where women/girls are less privileged than men/boys. In the story the girls weren’t allowed to get the water from the well, and in the article it talks about how women don’t have the financial freedom like men do. I feel like this issue has been going on for a long time, fortunately people are starting to talk about it more and there are many media platforms that spread awareness about this equality issue.

Article: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086162