The Girl Effect, thoughts on this charity

The girl effect is a charity which gives money exclusively to girls in africa to help them gain income through a donation which allows them to buy animals (cows) for sustainable income (milk).

As much as it is a good idea, I must ask, why not also give money to men? Well apparently they have the answer on their site, but their statistics are in a way twisted to make it look as if the women are much better agents of change than the men. One statistic struck me: "When girls and women earn income, the reinvest 90% of it into their families , as compared to only 30-40% for men."

Now let me compare the income of an average man compared with one of an average woman in Africa:

The numbers given by the United Nations Development program and the African Development Bank state that a women earns on average only 51.8% of what a man earns. For simplification, we can say they earn 50% of what a man does.

Say a man earns on average 100$ a month (random number) and devotes 40% of his income to his family, the man devotes 40$ to his family.

Now a women will earn on average 50% of 100 which is 50$, she will devote 90% of her income to her family, so 45$.

In conclusion, a women only devotes on average only 12% more money than a man. Not to mention the man will have much more money to spend on consumer products, boosting the economy.

Don't get me wrong, the charity has a good goal, I just think it should also be available to men and their statistics are true, but do not represent what one thinks they represent.