SDG Summary
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This SDG is appointed to achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. The main purpose of this SDG is to end ALL forms of discrimination against all women and girls around the world. There are many ways women are discriminated today, so therefor there are many approaches we must take. First of all, we need to eliminate all violence against women that happens in both public and private settings. This includes sexual/physical abuse, rape, trafficking, and any other types of exploitation. This then leads into finding a way to end the forms of harmful practices on women. The main practices we are focused on include child marriage, and female genital mutation. We also would like to allow society to recognize the equal value of both women who work, and women who stay at home. Women who work seem to be portrayed at a higher value, than the women who stay home and take care of the children. In reality, they are both working women, and they are both worth the same value.
Within the economic world, women are discriminated as well. With that being said, our focus surrounding this issue to ensure that women have full participation in decision making on an economic and political level. We also need to improve women’s access to ownership and control all forms of land.
There are many more issue to address when approaching gender inequality, but these will be our first steps for approaching this SDG.
Within the economic world, women are discriminated as well. With that being said, our focus surrounding this issue to ensure that women have full participation in decision making on an economic and political level. We also need to improve women’s access to ownership and control all forms of land.
There are many more issue to address when approaching gender inequality, but these will be our first steps for approaching this SDG.
SDG 5 Targets
- End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
- Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
- Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
- Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
- Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in political, economic and public life
- Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences