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Increasing women’s legal rights keeps them safe and able to build productive happy lives. #7. It leads to better racial equality. Gender equality and race equality are closely linked. Within issues like the gender pay gap, race plays a big role. White and Asian women earn more than black, Hispanic, and native women.
Apr 13, 2020 · The European Institute of Gender Equality has stated that the closure or near-closure of businesses could have a severe effect on women-dominated professions (such as flight attendants, hairdressers, and tour operators), and unpaid care work will continue to increase. In highlighting the gendered impact of COVID-19, the UN Office of the High ...
UNICEF/UN0679809/Mark Naftalin. Reducing inequality strengthens economies and builds stable, resilient societies that give everyone the chance to thrive. UNICEF builds partnerships across the world to accelerate gender equality. In all areas of our work, we integrate strategies that address gender-specific discrimination and disadvantages.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world ...
- Achieving gender equality would help put an end to poverty. Women carry water back to their homes in Wolgeba village in Halaba Zone, Ethiopia.
- Gender equality on its own is already one of the Global Goals. Kenyan women shout slogans during a march to mark International Women's Day in Nairobi, Kenya, March 8, 2019.
- Empowering women boosts economies. Women working in their rice paddy fields in Odisha, India. Odisha is the poorest region of India, where people have not benefited from the booming national economy.
- Women can help mitigate the effects of climate change. Climate activist Greta Thunberg poses for media outside the congress center where the World Economic Forum take place in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan.
Oct 6, 2021 · A new global analysis of progress on gender equality and women’s rights shows women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with disproportionately high job and livelihood losses, education disruptions and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women’s health services, poorly funded even before the pandemic, faced ...
Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Gender-based discrimination is prohibited under almost every human rights treaty. Despite much progress made in securing women’s rights globally, millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, being denied of their equality, dignity and autonomy, and even a life.
