It helps prevent violence against women, is good for the economy, and makes our communities safer and healthier. Read our vision and strategy for gender equality in Victoria. Skip to main content. Home Gender equality: what is it and why do we need it?
Gender equality: what is it and why do we need it? All of us have a role to play in promoting gender equality. Gender inequality affects everyone Everyone is affected by gender inequality. The benefits of gender equality Everyone benefits from gender equality. Gender inequality keeps women and their families trapped in cycles of poverty.
When women receive better education, healthcare, and job opportunities, they can thrive. Investing in gender inequality is a sustainable, highly-effective way to reduce poverty. While men are also victims of human trafficking, women and girls make up the majority.
Gender equality can also help strengthen a country, reducing poverty and instability. These fuel human trafficking. States with better gender equality are less likely to use military force. When a country addresses major areas of gender inequality like education and employment, it fosters peace. Emmaline Soken-Huberty is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon.
She started to become interested in human rights while attending college, eventually getting a concentration in human rights and humanitarianism. It saves lives Because of their lack of empowerment and resources in many places, women and girls face life-threatening risks. It results in better healthcare Research shows that in general, women receive worse medical care than men.
Subscribe to our newsletter! By continuing, you accept the privacy policy. Unfortunately, there is still a long way to go to achieve full equality of rights and opportunities between men and women, warns UN Women. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to end the multiple forms of gender violence and secure equal access to quality education and health, economic resources and participation in political life for both women and girls and men and boys.
It is also essential to achieve equal opportunities in access to employment and to positions of leadership and decision-making at all levels. UN support for the rights of women began with the Organization's founding Charter. Among its earliest accomplishments was ensuring gender neutral language in the draft Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the urging of the Conference, it subsequently declared the years as the UN Decade for Women , and established a Voluntary Fund for Decade.
In its 30 articles, the Convention explicitly defines discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. The Convention targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations, and it is the first human rights treaty to affirm the reproductive rights of women. The resulting Programme of Action called for stronger national measures to ensure women's ownership and control of property, as well as improvements in women's rights with respect to inheritance, child custody and loss of nationality.
It was convened at a time when the movement for gender equality had finally gained true global recognition, and 15, representatives of non-governmental organizations NGOs participated in a parallel NGO Forum. Realizing that the goals of the Mexico City Conference had not been adequately met, the participating governments adopted the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies to the Year
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