UNA-ORLANDO - Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment WORLD

GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
WORLD

Social structures present across the world have created an inequitable balance between genders. In modern society across the globe, women and men do not enjoy equal privileges. Research shows that in order for a nation to attain a higher development rate, equal opportunities for all genders should be made viable. Gender equality is achieved when women and men have access to the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society, especially economic participation and decision-making. Upon when discrimination is eliminated based on differences in behavioral characteristics and needs and aspirations across genders, the balance between genders becomes equitable. The extensiveness and universality of this issue surrounding gender equality and women’s empowerment make it extremely pervasive requiring an active change in policy and social structures.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEARNING RESOURCES

Violence Towards Women

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerement Across the Globe

Combatting Gender Stereotypes and Sexism

LEARNING RESOURCES

Background

Gender equality and women's empowermentGender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. There has been progress over the last decades: More girls are going to school, fewer girls are forced into early marriage, more women are

How people around the world view gender equality in their countriesMajorities in 23 of the 27 countries surveyed believe that equality between men and women in their country has increased in the past two decades.

Global Gender Gap Report 2022Access World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022 here.

Violence Towards Women

Facts and figures: Ending violence against womenAvailability of data on violence against women and girls has increased significantly in recent years. Here are some facts and figures.

INTERVIEW: ‘Every other young girl you see in The Gambia has undergone female genital mutilation’Women in The Gambia face high levels of female genital mutilation (FGM), period poverty (an inability to afford menstrual hygiene products), and domestic violence. In an interview with UN News, Ndeye Rose Sarr, the head of the UN reproductive and sexual health agency (UNFPA) in the country, underlines the challenges they face, and the efforts the UN is making to address the issues.

'Mum does not cry or scream anymore': Breaking the silence of domestic abuse in TajikistanOne third of women in Tajikistan are subjected to violence by their husbands, but very few cases are reported. Social and legal support, provided through the joint EU/UN Spotlight Initiative, is helping affected women to protect their rights.

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerement Across the Globe

2022 Year In Review: Celebrating women fighting for their rightsIn the last of our Year In Review features, we honour the work of activists helping to protect women’s rights, which once again, came under attack in many countries throughout 2022.

For first time, women represented in all parliaments of the worldFor the first time ever, there are women MPs in every single country on Earth, the Interparliamentary Union, IPU, said on Friday.

These are the world’s most gender-equal countriesThe global gender gap has closed by 68.1%, but these countries have reached near parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report.

Combatting Gender Stereotypes and Sexism

Women’s pay was starting to catch up. Now progress has stopped.Women in 2022 made 82 percent of men’s pay, as researchers say the concrete steps that improved women’s earnings in the 1980s and ’90s have largely been exhausted.

Innovation and Technology for Gender EqualityThis toolkit presents best practices, to support innovators, designers and implementers of digital products and services, to benefit girls and young women

‘More women and girls in science equals better science’, UN chief declaresGender bias in science has resulted in drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, and search algorithms that perpetuate discrimination, but the solution is simple: increase the numbers of women working in the field and support the girls hoping to join them one day.

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