‘Not fast enough’: Report calls for urgent global action to achieve gender equality by 2030
Unless rapid progress is made, the global community will fall short of achieving gender equality by the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) 2030 deadline, a new UN Women report has found. Although there have been inroads, with women now holding one in every four parliamentary seats and the percentage of women and girls living in extreme […]
Gender equality stagnant across the globe
Bias against women is similar to what it was a decade ago and gender equality is stagnant, according to the latest United Nations (UN) 2023 Gender Social Norms Index. In 2015 the United Nations set out 17 goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – one of these goals was to achieve gender […]