By Matthew Lavietes
More than 2 billion women and girls around the world face missing out on the advantages of their male peers as progress towards global gender equality goals stalls, advocacy groups warned on Thursday.
About half the countries that signed up to the U.N. target of achieving gender equality by 2030 – home to 2.1 billion women and girls – are on course to fail on all five measures, research by the Equal Measures 2030 partnership of advocacy groups found.
“The takeaway from this report is clear: At the current pace of progress, none of us will live to see a world where men and women are truly equal,” said Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the group’s partners.
“The data that Equal Measures has collected and crunched should give all of us a new sense of urgency. We all must do more to take up the cause of gender equality.”
World leaders agreed in September 2015 on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), designed to tackle the world’s most vexing problems including extreme poverty and inequality. Read more…
