Women Empowerment and Sustainable Development Goals-Planet 50-50 by 2030; are we on the right track? (original) (raw)

Women Empowerment & Sustainable Development of World

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

Women part in development is very important in the whole world. The female half of the global human capital is now undervalued and underutilised on a global scale. Women have historically been undervalued despite their ability to enhance society, the economy, and the environment. The world's female population may be better utilised to spur economic growth, lower poverty, improve social wellbeing, and promote sustainable development in all nations. Only through long-term investments in economic, human, and environmental capital can sustainable development be accomplished and the role of women in this is very important Gender-inclusive government policies must be implemented if the gender gap is to be closed. On International platform UNO is trying its best to improve the condition or women in the World. It developed 17 points programs to improve the condition of the women in the present world.

WOMEN AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

On 25 September September, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the agreed framework for international development. It is the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, unlike the MDGs, the 2030 Agenda presents a much wider scope by deliberately and more fully incorporating economic and environmental sustainability, as well as the aspiration of many countries for peaceful and inclusive societies. The agenda also applies to all countries rather than just the developing countries. In this regard, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is more ambitious envisaging the eradication of poverty, the systematic tack-ling of climate change and building peaceful, resilient, equitable and inclusive societies. The Agenda, unlike the MDGs, has a stand-alone Goal on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. In addition, there are gender equality targets in other Goals, and a more consistent call for sex disaggregation of data across many indicators. UN Women Communications and Advocacy Section in New York conducted an analysis of what the 17 SDGs adopted mean to women in order to inform strategic interventions building on the efforts of localization at country and regional levels. This analysis has been collated in this publication and linked to UN Women Eastern and Southern Africa Regional and Country Office priorities. Concrete examples programming interventions by UN Women country offices in the region are pro led in relation to specific SDGs and how those streams of interventions could lead to localization efforts. This has been done through an analysis of all annual reports submitted by regional/ multi/country offices to identify work streams feeding into the localization of sustainable development goals. The team comprising UN Women’s consultant on SDGs, Knowledge Management and Research Specialist and UN Women’s Regional Communications Assistant, under the leadership of the Deputy Regional Director, linked to existing analysis provided by UN Women on Women and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The publication showcases how women are affected by each of the 17 proposed SDGs, as well as how women and girls can — and will — be key to achieving each of these goals. Data and stories of the impact of each SDG on women and girls is illustrated. UN Women Eastern and Southern Africa region’s efforts and interventions as they relate to SDGs are also discussed under each SDG, including our programmes, intergovernmental work and advocacy for policy change. This publication is intended to help countries in Eastern and Southern Africa understand and appreciate the linkages between SDGs and women and girls in their localization efforts and in establishing various partnerships and networks that feed into the vision of localizing SDGs at the country and regional levels.

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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.

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The Global Context: Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality

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GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL

International Journal of Advanced Research, 2020

“Women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development.” (Principle 20, Rio Declaration). Sustainable development depends on an equitable distribution of resources and it cannot be achieved without gender equality. Almost there is a dual rationale for prompting gender equality. Firstly, that equality between women and men - equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities - is a matter of human rights and social justice. And secondly, that greater equality between women and men is also a precondition for development. Women empowerment is a key factor for achieving sustainability. Sustainable development and sustainability have various meaning. Sometimes it may be equitable distribution of resources and opportunities or sometimes it may be defined as understanding the interconnections among economy, development and society. Basically, it is based on the principle of democracy and the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights. It cannot exist without equality in the distributional process. UN member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end the poverty, fight inequality is a cross-cutting issue, and unless addressed in multi dimensional way, gender equality will not become a reality. Every woman’s contribution to sustainable development must be recognized. They have a strong role in the education and most essential socializing their children, including teaching among them care and responsibility. The present paper is an attempt to analyze the essentials of women contributions in sustainable development as shareholders and beneficiaries in India.

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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...