Connie Britton penned an op-ed for Entertainment Weekly about how women are treated in the United States.

At the Globes, the actress proudly wore a sweater that said, “Poverty is sexist” because “nowhere in the world are women economically equal to men, nor do they have the same economic opportunities as men — and that inequality is even worse for girls and women in the world’s poorest countries.”

Connie writes that 130 million girls around the world are denied an education, and women in developing countries account for less than half of all students enrolled in lower secondary school. In 18 countries, a man is legally empowered to prevent his wife from doing a job of which he doesn’t approve.

She adds, “At a time when we are acknowledging the destructive nature of sexism and systemic gender inequality in our culture, my hope is that this movement, this conversation will reach outward to all places where women’s voices are silenced so frequently, as well as beyond our borders to some of the poorest places in the world, where poverty is such a defining factor of women’s lives and subsequently of their communities and nations.”

Read more at EW.