Gender Equality

What is Gender Equality

Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Women are entitled to live with dignity and with freedom from want and from fear. It is also a precondition for advancing development and reducing poverty. Empowered women contribute to the health and productivity of whole families and communities, and they improve prospects for the next generation.

Present Situation

Women and girls represent half of the world’s population. Today gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress.

Lack of Gender Equality

Despite solid evidence demonstrating the centrality of women’s empowerment to realizing human rights, reducing poverty, promoting development and addressing the world’s most urgent challenges, gender equality remains an unfulfilled promise.

How to Address Gender Inequality

Reproductive Health

Economic Empowerment

Educational Empowerment

Political Empowerment

Positive Impacts of Gender Equality

Positive impacts on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita which grow over time.

Women’s workforce participation and promoting women’s leadership could benefit the country’s economy.

It makes our communities safer and healthier.

Gender diversity in leadership roles boosts business performance.

Sharing household work leads to happier relationships.

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Additional Information

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Gender and The Environment

Alterations in environmental conditions pose an immediate threat to the world and its inhabitants. [...] Several factors contribute to women’s particular difficulties in redressing environmental challenges (insecure land and tenure rights, obstructed access to natural resource assets, limited participation in decision-making, limited access to basic education, and lack of access to markets, capital, training and technologies).