for example evidence shows that more equitable property distribution within the family can have a range of benefits such as increasing female labour force participation and boosting education for girls for example when families have few resources children might be forced to work rather than go to school and girls might be forced to marry or denied an education because their families cannot afford it for example the equal right of women and men to decide freely the number and spacing of their children eg art it also requires ensuring that women and men have equal rights to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination coercion and violence