The Equality Issue
Gender Equality - the United Nations
Gender equality, besides being a fundamental human right, is essential to achieve peaceful societies, with full human potential and sustainable development.
Global Issues: Gender Equity and Women's Empowerment
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Gender justice and women's rights | Oxfam International
Women, non-binary and trans people are confronted by discrimination and inequality. It is one of the oldest and most pervasive forms of inequality. For ...
The onset of puberty can expose girls to discriminatory practices that result in severe physical and mental harm. Compared to boys their age, adolescent girls ...
Global Women's Issues - United States Department of State
They are underrepresented in the halls of political and economic power and overrepresented in poverty, while barriers—from gender-based violence and lack of ...
Women's Rights - Amnesty International
But across the globe many women and girls still face discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Gender inequality underpins many problems which ...
Gender equality and women's empowerment - the United Nations
There has been progress over the last decades, but the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. Women and girls represent half of the world's ...
Frequently asked questions about gender equality
Gender equity is the process of being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, strategies and measures must often be available to compensate for women's ...
Gender equality and women's rights | OHCHR
Despite much progress made in securing women's rights globally, millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, being denied of ...
Gender inequalities we need to address — now - Concern Worldwide
Gender inequality contributes to high levels of female mortality. Each day, almost 1,000 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy ...
Goal 5: Gender equality - The Global Goals
It is not just a human rights issue; it is a tremendous waste of the world's human potential. By denying women equal rights, we deny half the population a ...
In the United States, the wage gap remains a stubbornly persistent problem. In. 2020, full-time year-round working women on average made only 83 cents on the ...
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Since 1992, our international network of lawyers, activists and supporters have tackled the most difficult issues, challenged ingrained cultural assumptions and ...
Gender Discrimination Causes Inequality Between Girls and Boys ...
Gender inequality is discrimination on the basis of sex or gender causing one sex or gender to be routinely privileged or prioritized over another. Gender ...
Gender equality and education | UNESCO
Gender equality is a global priority at UNESCO. Globally, 122 million girls and 128 million boys are out of school. Women still account for almost ...
Global gender equality in 2023: Urgent efforts needed to reach 2030 ...
Deep-seated biases persist, marked by unequal health access, unequal political representation, economic gaps, and inadequate legal defences.
Despite progress in recent years, more work needs to be done across all OECD countries to secure gender equality, with women and girls still facing ...
OHCHR and women's human rights and gender equality
Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Equality and non-discrimination are fundamental principles of the United ...
Women and Gender in Public Policy | U.S. GAO
While federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender disparities persist in education, employment and earnings, retirement, health...
Gender equality | Description & Policy Approaches | Britannica
gender equality, condition of parity regardless of an individual's gender. Gender equality addresses the tendency to ascribe, ...