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But dramatic gender inequities persist in South Asia, more so than in other low-income countries.
Although gender parity in primary education has improved, dropout rates for girls are higher than for boys.
As a result, policymakers should begin to consider direct policy interventions to accelerate social progress, with a particular focus on human development and gender inclusiveness.
In today’s uncertain world, social turmoil, gender deprivation, and rising conflict have tested countries’ abilities to create jobs, promote gender equity, equip young people with skills, and design effective social protection programs.
Greater gender equality can contribute to economic growth and development, and major initiatives to increase opportunities for women can transform society.
Deeper social disparities should never be viewed as the inevitable price of rapid growth, and more egalitarian outcomes in education, health, and gender should not be considered “second-stage” reforms.
The Republicans should not have been caught off-guard by Americans’ interest in issues like disenfranchisement and gender equality.
Shouldn’t these international public institutions be looking for the best-qualified person, regardless of race, religion, gender, or nationality?
If we fail to achieve universal gender equality, we will fall short of many other goals, from ending poverty to ensuring good health.
One of my personal frustrations with the MDGs was that gender equality was more a matter of rhetoric than of action.
Achieving gender equality is more than a once-in-a-generation opportunity; it is also the best way to make progress on nearly all of the SDGs, and to build a world where everyone can thrive.
As Bill and Melinda Gates will discuss at a gathering of world leaders next week in New York, and show in a new report, collective action is needed to address the various dimensions of gender inequality and drive progress.
Yet up-to-date data exist for only a small fraction of the indicators that were developed to assess progress on the 17 SDGs – including the more than 40 that directly relate to gender equality.
Of the 14 indicators of progress associated with the primary gender equity goal, SDG 5, most countries are measuring just three.
The benefits of gender equity are also apparent when women have access to basic financial services, like credit and savings accounts, which enable them to start businesses and save money for family essentials.
Closing the gender gap in agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound impact on families and productivity in the developing world.
The MDGs set 18 sharp and mostly achievable targets in eight areas, including poverty and hunger, gender equality, education, and child and maternal health.
French Socialists support the Constitutional Treaty as a way to strengthen political effectiveness and democratic accountability in the EU, and because it advances the cause of social progress by integrating the Charter of Fundamental Rights and defining goals such as full employment, sustainable development, anti-discrimination, and gender equality.
Furthermore, the understanding generated by social choice theorists’ study of group decisions has helped some research that is not directly a part of social choice theory – for example, on the forms and consequences of gender inequality, or on the causation and prevention of famines.
Add to that enduring income, racial, and gender inequality, and frustration with the current system is not surprising.
This demands that mobile technologies take into account differences in gender, education, and resource levels among farmers, and are responsive to changing circumstances.
In many other countries, too, whatever people may say about gender equality, the reality is that women are far from having equal rights.
According to the World Economic Forum, greater gender equality, which implies greater use of human capital, correlates positively with per capita GDP, competitiveness, and human development.
Squandering that capital has the opposite effect: the United Nations Development Programme reports that gender inequality costs Sub-Saharan Africa, to name one example, $95 billion (or 6% of GDP) per year, on average.
Yet women around the world still face a massive gender gap in employment and wages.
Closing the gender gap is the right thing to do for women and the planet.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets for lowering poverty, improving health and nutrition, expanding education, increasing gender equality, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
To be sure, complex issues like poverty, gender discrimination, and poor infrastructure also contribute to maternal mortality.
The Global Findex report also quantifies and ranks countries according to the gender gap in financial inclusion.
Achieving gender parity would yield an enormous payoff for scientific discovery.
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