Sustainable Development Goals – Goal 5: Empower women and girls and make things equal for them

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Sustainable development goals, women,girls, Gender equity, UNDP, United Nations Development Programme

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Ever since the society exists, the problem of equity between men and women is very present in the everyday life and very well known by all its members. Even though centuries passed, the situation is still alive and only in the past decades the difference started to be seen. Even if everybody is born with the same status and chances, by the moment of spiritual maturity, men will be paid 16% more than women.

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[...] Economists observed that the dominating development model tends to focus more on economic growth, rather than on people's rights or welfare. The solution to this will be a closer connection between research institutes and economy. Also, not very helpful are the institutional barriers as a result of lack of institutional experience to operate all the mechanism of democratic system.[12] Unfortunately, this sustainable development goal lacks vital economic and social targets regarding the following issues: - any reference to women's engagement in wage work such as achieving full and productive employment of women, as well as equal pay for work of equal value and reduction of discrimination in labor markets; - the need for equal access to education; - women and children's mental and physical health beyond that of reproduction.[13] For this goal, there was established the GIRLS Project which utilizes a public health approach to early grade literacy as a tool to reduce the social determinants of health, such as poverty, education and health inequities, and gender discrimination. [...]

[...] Also, the UK International Development Secretary, Justine Greening stated that “Investing in girls and women isn't just about basic human rights, it's about fully unlocking the potential of half the world's population”.[6] II. The succes of "Gender equity" as a UNDP goal If we move forward to analyze the chances of success of this goal and what are the impediments for this to happen, the discussion becomes a bit complicated. Even if the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, also known as CEDAW, has been ratified by more countries than any other UN convention regarding this issue, the world is far from gender equity. [...]

[...] Close enough are also Estonia with Israel with 21,8% and The Netherlands with 20,5%. The countries with the least sensed gap are New Zealand, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Norway and Denmark with scores lower than 7%. Hungary reached a very good score in 2007 of but then let it increase to 8,7%. Also, an alarming increase happens in Chile, where in 2006 the gap was only but in grew to 16%.[11] If we take a general look at the barriers combating the implementation of the sustainable development goals, these are economical and financial ones. [...]

[...] A second impediment is the low participation of women in politics. This happens starting from a local level and ending in a global one. Women are underrepresented as voters, as well as in leading positions, even though their abilities as leaders and agents of change were proven. “Women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political sphere, often as a result of discriminatory laws, practices, attitudes and gender stereotypes, low levels of education, lack of access to health care and the disproportionate effect of poverty on women.” To resolve this problem, the UN provides trainings for women political candidates in order to help them build their capacities, and offer civic and political education.[8] An improvement regarding this situation can be seen in Iceland, Spain, Belgium, Finland and Norway, where the proportion of women in parliament is close to or above 40%. [...]

[...] Sustainable Development Goals Goal Empower women and girls and make things equal for them Faculty of Political Science - University of Bucharest Ever since the society exists, the problem of equity between men and women is very present in the everyday life and very well known by all its members. Even though centuries passed, the situation is still alive and only in the past decades the difference started to be seen. Even if everybody is born with the same status and chances, by the moment of spiritual maturity, men will be paid 16% more than women. [...]