Discrimination against women is thriving today, despite several attempts at reform. Several fields are still male dominated, and women are paid less than men.

However, these issues pale in comparison to the treatment of girl children in several parts around the world, where they are oppressed even in their childhood, and disregarded entirely as women. Basic human rights are directly violated when:

Girls are forced to marry much older men when they are minors—a widespread phenomenon called child marriage. 64 million girls are coerced into marriage before the age of 18, and 1 in every 3 girls is a child bride in the developing world.

This impedes their chances of getting an education, and these girls are at a high risk of being abused, contracting HIV and other diseases, and dying during pregnancy or birth-giving.

​This is a truly global issue with countries everywhere having child marriage—consisting of various countries such as India, Mali, Madagascar, Mexico, and even the US.
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Girls are illegally moved from familiar surroundings and coerced for purposes such as forced sex work or labor—a phenomenon known as human trafficking, which affects both men, women and children (but women and children disproportionately). 
​This is especially targeted towards girls and young women through the misuse and negative implications of social media—for example, the idea of this modern-day slavery is normalized in video games such as Grand Auto Theft.
Though modern day video games may not be the main cause, this perception lends to horrifying statistics. Every year, about 800,000 women and children are trafficked across international borders—the trafficking cases within nations are even higher.​