3 天之前 · Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Gender-based discrimination is prohibited under almost every human rights treaty. Despite much progress made in securing women’s rights globally, millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, being denied of their equality ...

About gender equality and the human rights of women and LGBTI persons. Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Equality and non-discrimination are fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter, adopted by world leaders in 1945.

2024年6月11日 · The Global Gender Gap Index 2024 benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time …

2022年3月3日 · Gender equality has suffered since the pandemic began. It will now take an estimated 135.6 years to close the worldwide gender gap between men and women. However, progress is being made in areas including science and politics. Improving paternity policies and representation of women will help.

2024年6月27日 · While the speed of progress is “deeply insufficient to achieve gender equality by 2030”, it is achievable, the report says, if government and business “shift both resources and mindsets towards a new paradigm of economic thinking, where gender parity is embraced as a condition for equitable and sustainable growth”.

2019年3月8日 · At the current rate of progress, it will take another 108 years to reach gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Gender Gap report. Across the 106 countries covered since the first edition of the report, the biggest gaps to close are in the economic and political empowerment dimensions, which will take 202 ...

2023年6月20日 · The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps …

2025年1月22日 · Or, as another panellist in the session, Michael Ensser, Chairman of executive search firm Egon Zehnder, put it: the business argument for gender equality is “an absolute no-brainer.” And yet, what once seemed like a consensus view — that gender equality was something worth fighting for — has increasingly been called into question.

2024年9月16日 · We are witnessing the shrinking and shifting of civic space. Progress on gender equality is stalling, and the right to protest is severely restricted in many countries around the world. Girls’ and young women’s right to make their voices heard – and to continue pushing for change and accountability – has to be protected and championed.

2021年3月31日 · Improvements in equal access to education and in the political empowerment of women, though partial at times, have been important drivers to increase gender equality in the country. Nevertheless, as underlined in the aforementioned Global Gender Gap Report 2021 , progress must still be made in relation to women’s economic participation and ...