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Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
The world continues to lag in its pursuit of gender equality by 2030. Harmful practices are decreasing but not at a rate keeping up with population growth. One in five girls still marry before age 18. A staggering 230 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital mutilation. Far too many women still cannot realize the right to decide on their sexual and reproductive health. Violence against women persists, disproportionately affecting those with disabilities.
Parity in women’s participation in public life remains elusive, and in management positions, at current rates, parity will require another 176 years. Women carry an unfair burden of unpaid domestic and care work, spending 2.5 times more hours a day on it than men.
Strong and sustained commitments to changing biased social norms, eliminating harmful practices and abolishing discriminatory laws are urgently needed. Enhancing women’s roles in leadership and decisionmaking and adequately scaling up investments in gender equality on national, regional and global scales are top priorities.
| Target | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.1 |
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere. |
| 5.2 |
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation. |
| 5.3 |
Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. |
| 5.4 |
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate. |
| 5.5 |
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. |
| 5.6 |
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences. |
| 5.7 |
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws. |
| 5.8 |
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women. |
| 5.9 |
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels. |
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Some suggestions from The Global Goals for things you can do to engage with this goal.
Women earn 10 to 30 per cent less than men for the same work.
Pay inequality persists everywhere. Voice your support for equal pay for equal work.
Be aware of gender stereotypes.
Recognize them, avoid them and educate others about them.
Stand up against harassment.
Whenever you see or become aware of harassment, whether in the workplace, streets, home or the online space, raise your voice against it.
Find female mentors/leaders.
Ensure that some of your role models or mentors are women. There’s a lot you can learn from women in positions of authority.
Share the workload at home.
Sharing domestic responsibilities ensures the work burden doesn’t fall only on one person and instills the value of gender equality and essential life skills in children.
