Property

What is the gender property gap?

Only 15 percent of the world's private land area is owned by women. In the Middle East and Africa, they own just five percent of the land.

Until a few decades ago, women were excluded from buying land, houses, or apartments. In some developing countries, they still have no right to own property. Women are also more likely to lack the documents to assert their property rights.

Retirement property

With fatal consequences for elderly women, since property such as land, apartments or houses can be an important pension support, alongside saved assets. Property, therefore, makes a significant contribution to protecting against poverty in old age.

Property - the blind data spot.

As is so often the case, however, there is a lack of more precise data to clearly grasp the extent of the property gap among women. Real estate data is rarely broken down by gender in any country. Individual evaluations show that women in Germany, for example, only make up one-third of all property buyers. In Australia, single women own 26.2 percent and in New Zealand 20.3 percent of all residential property, significantly less than men. In Switzerland, there are no such evaluations at all. Without any data, it is difficult to demonstrate that there is a need for action.

At least women are catching up. The USA is a positive exception. There, more single women than single men own a home.

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