Gender equality - Why does it matters?
What can we do to fix these issues?
If you are a girl, you can stay in school, help empower your female classmate to do the same and fight for your right to access sexual heath services. If your are woman, YOU CAN ADDRESS UNCONSCIOUS BIASES AND IMPLICIT ASSOCIATIONS THAT CAN FORM AN UNINTENDED and often an invisible barrier to equal opportunity. if you are a man or a boy you can work alongside women and girls to achieve gender quality and embrace heathy respectful relationships. You can fund education campaigns to curb cultural practices like female genital mutilation and change harmful laws that limit the rights of women and girls and prevent them from achieving their full potential.
What happens if genders equality is not ensured?
Inequalities faced by girls can begin at birth and follow them all their lives. In some countries, girls are deprived to access health care or proper nutrition, LEADING to a higher mortality rate. As girls move into adolescence, gender DISPARITIES( differences) widen. Child marriage affects girls FAR MORE THAN boys. GLOBALLY, nearly 15 million girls under age 18 are married every day or 37( ref to girls) each day. MARRYING YOUNG also affects girls' education. About one third of developing countries have not achieved gender PARITY(equal) in primary education. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania and Western Asia, girls still face barriers to entering BOTH primary and secondary school.
Are there any other gender related challenges?
Yes. Worldwide, 35 PER CENT of women have experienced physical and/or SEXUAL INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE or NON-PARTNER SEXUAL VIOLENCE. An estimated 133 million girls and women have experienced some form of female GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East, where the harmful practice is most common with a high risk of prolonged bleeding., infection (including HIV), childbirth complications. infertility and death.
How foes gender inequality affect women?
Disadvantages in education translate into lack of access to skills and limited opportunities in the labour market. Women' and girls' empowerment is essential to expand economic growth and promote social development. The full participation of women in labor forces would add percentage points to most notional growth rates- double digits in many cases.
But, why should gender equality matter to me?
REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU LIVE IN, gender equality is a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT. Advancing gender equality is critical to all ages of a healthy society, from reducing poverty to promoting the heath , education , protection and the well-being of girls and boys. Investing in education programmes for girls and increasing the age AT WHICH THEY marry can RETURN $5 for every dollar spent. Investing programs improving income-gender-acting activities for women can return $7 for every dollar spent.
What is the goal here?
To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Why?
Women and girls represent half of the world's population and therefore also half of its potential. But, today gender inequality persists everywhere and STAGNATES(stop making progress) social progress. AS OF 2014, 143 countries half GUARANTEE equality between men and women in their Constitution but 52 have YET TO TAKE THIS STEP.
