SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) AND GENDER EQUALITY (original) (raw)

GENDER EQUALITY A KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Indian Journal of Integrated Research in Law, 2023

Equality of sexes is termed as gender equality in terms of access to opportunities or the resources regardless of gender. Gender equality is necessary as it tends to prevent any form of violence against girls and women. This indicates that there is a political and economic participation including even equal decision making. In fact, achieving gender equality and empowerment of women is an integral part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Gender equality thus indicates the state of valuing different aspirations, behaviours and needs equally, irrespective of gender. Gender equality, which is a human right, leads to economic, social and environmental prosperity. In 2022, the slogan on gender equality for sustainable tomorrow was "Gender Equality today for a Sustainable tomorrow" thereby laying emphasis on gender equality and sustainability. Even one of the goals under Agenda 2030 is on gender equality and empowering the girls and women, which acts as a driver of sustainable development in all its forms and dimensions. Gender equality, which is also a fundamental human right is a foundation for a prosperous, peaceful and sustainable societies.

Promoting gender equality across the sustainable development goals

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Gender issues, and gender equality in particular, can be regarded as cross-cutting issues in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), even though it is unclear how they are taken into account. This study addresses this information gap by performing an assessment of the emphasis on gender issues across all the other 16 SDGs, in addition to SDG5, through a literature review and case study analysis, the basis for the newly developed framework, highlighting specific actions associated to each SDG. The 13 countries addressed in the 16 case studies include China, India, or Australia and illustrate the inclusion of SDG5 into the SDGs. Using an SDG matrix, the SDG targets are analysed. Those where an emphasis on gender equality is important in allowing them to be achieved are listed. The novelty of our approach resides in offering an in-depth analysis of how gender issues interact with the other SDGs, proposing a new analysis framework clearly identifying SDGs 1, 4, 1...

Gender equality as an accelerator for achieving SDGs

UNDP, 2019

Gender equality lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which asserts gender equality as both a fundamental human right and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. The evidence collected in this discussion paper shows that gender equality is critical to achieving a wide range of objectives pertaining to sustainable development. These include promoting economic growth and labour productivity, reducing poverty, enhancing human capital through health and education, attaining food security, addressing climate change impacts and strengthening resilience to disasters, and ensuring more peaceful and inclusive communities. It therefore argues that accelerating gender equality in all spheres of society leads to a more rapid increase in progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda.

A Study on Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals from a Gender Equality Perspective

Global Journal of Nutrition & Food Science, 2019

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a landmark agreement negotiated and approved by the 193 Member States of the United Nations. Comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 targets and 332 indicators, it aims to address the economic, social, environmental and political dimensions of sustainable development in a comprehensive and integrated way. The SDG Agenda is clear that achieving gender equality is not only an important goal in and of itself but also a catalyst for achieving a sustainable future for all. Progress on gender equality has been highly uneven across the different dimensions of the 2030 Agenda. In some areas, such as girls’ access to education, global improvement is undeniable yet insufficient, often leaving behind women and girls in the poorest households (SDG 4). In areas such as labor force participation (SDG 8) and innovation and knowledge creation (SDG 9), significant gender gaps remain, and progress has been minimal. In other cases, such as maternal mortality (SDG 3), progress is too slow and uneven to achieve SDG Target 3.1 by 2030. Similarly, while progress has been made towards eliminating the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) (SDG 5), this is not enough to keep up with population growth, meaning the number of women and girls undergoing FGM is likely to rise over the next 15 years. Unless progress on gender equality is accelerated, the global community will not only fail to achieve SDG 5, it will also forgo the catalytic effect that gender equality can have for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda more broadly. This paper shows that across countries and regions, women and girls face tremendous structural barriers that impact all aspects of their lives. Eliminating gender-specific constraints, as well as other forms of discrimination with which they intersect, is hence critical.

Sustainable Development Goal: Gender Equality for Women’s Empowerment and Human Rights

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH

Empowerment of women and girls is to be realized through sustainable development. Sustainable development depends on an equitable distribution of resources and it cannot be achieved without gender equality. Gender Equity is the process of allocating resources, programs, and decision making fairly to both males and females without any discrimination on the basis of sex…and addressing any imbalances in the benefits available to males and females. Diane Elson, an adviser to UN Women, argues in her contribution that "the disproportionate responsibility that women bear for carrying out unpaid work is an important constraint on their capacity to realize their rights... Both women and men need time to care for their families and communities, and time free from such care." Women’s empowerment is a key factor for achieving sustainability. Sustainable development and sustainability have various meaning .Sometime it may be equitable distribution of resources and opportunities or liv...

Women and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).pdf

Women and the changing World of Work, Planet 50-50 by 2030, 2017

History clearly highlights the status of women as weak and confined to household activities with no role in the state or society. Regions where women were treated low, and under mined with no place in the law or society mostly are from the under developing and developing nations today. This does not signify that it is the curse of those women that, these countries are still developing or under developed but the disparity and violence against women has been noticeably high mostly in the global south. With the advent of renaissance and industrial revolution and the rise of civil societies, peer groups and international organizations, the concept of gender equality has been promoted to the forefront mainly with respect to the facilitation of institutional and infrastructural help like education, health, basic loans and employment to women. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have laid two special focuses with respect to women’s empowerment. SDG 5, ‘Gender Equality’ and SDG 10 ‘Reduced Inequalities’, which creates a sense of inclusiveness and collective responsibility of advocating a happy, healthy and sustainable society through stronger workplaces and partnerships. This paper clearly and briefly discusses SDGs and Women’s role in the present world and in the promotion of these global goals by highlighting the concept of not giving any special significance for women but encourage their participation in the various activities of society to create a better place for living though promotion faith, hope and love.

The Global Context: Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality

Business Against Intimate Partner Violence, 2019

The 2030 Development Agenda, adopted unanimously by the 193 United Nations (UN) member countries on September 25, 2015, is a universal call to action for transforming the world to one that is free from poverty, inequality, violence, manmade natural disasters, and resource depletion for the current and future generations. The 2030 Agenda sets 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated Targets that represent a broad intergovernmental consensus on the world’s development priorities. The Goals were set through a participative process led by the UN, which included states, companies, civil society organizations, scientists, and experts over a period of 3 years. “Commitment to universal human rights” is depicted as the overarching normative and ethical framework for the SDGs.

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2018

This chapter considers key factors shaping the pursuit of gender equality and women's empowerment under the SDGs. In so doing, it examines some of the most significant concerns that may militate against the goals achieving these ends. These include, the legacy of the MDGs regime and in particular the limitations that have become apparent during its operation in progressing societal change through the goals, targets, and indicators, oriented approach pioneered therein and pursued in the successor SDG regime. The chapter also discusses the tensions inherent in the adoption of a discrete gender goal on the one hand and integration of gender under other goals on the other. The principal advantage of a discrete gender goal lies in according 'headline' status to the issue; integration in other goals however offers the potential to 'mainstream' gender coverage key substantive areas. The concomitant disadvantages of these approaches are potentially 'siloing' gender issues and dilution of focus respectively. The use of indicators and their limitations, particularly in light of current levels of information and communications technology and data challenges are interrogated. The chapter concludes by examining the implications of the international community's broader evasion of the interface between goals regimes and the global human rights agenda for gender issues. Discussion centres around the fact that, as gender concerns now enjoy strong coverage in human rights law along with the legal status that this invokes, divorcing the SDGs regime from such protection stands to act to the particular disadvantage of women, negating a key route to securing accountability for the impacts of state action/inaction on the ground.

Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals

2016

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Women Development Issues in SDG and MDG

2019

This paper sets out to capture the main achievements and results of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. Generally, Women Development means improve the quality of live of women, put them into decision making process, ensure equal rights over basic needs and create job opportunity, social security etc.