Goal 5 - Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Women and girls continue to suffer from discrimination around the world, despite significant progress towards gender equality under the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Gender equality is required for a peaceful and sustainable world, so SDG Number 4, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, helps provide women and girls with access to education, skills and training facilities, public health, and employment.
Taking part in one of our Women’s Empowerment Projects gives you the chance to take part in a sustainable project that aims to yield long-term results the community can build on into the future.
We have seen that giving women more active roles in society improves their lives as well as the community as a whole.
An Introduction to Goal 5
Written and created by our team in Luang Prabang, Laos
Our Data
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Percentage of females employed in decision making positions at GVI
Worldwide Data
About two thirds
of countries in the developing regions have achieved gender parity in primary education
Women in Northern Africa
hold less than one in five paid jobs in the non-agricultural sector
In 46 countries
women now hold more than 30 per cent of seats in national parliament in at least one chamber
In Southern Asia, only 74 girls
were enrolled in primary school for every 100 boys in 1990. By 2012, the enrolment ratios were the same for girls as for boys.
Girls still face barriers
in sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania and Western Asia, to entering both primary and secondary school
Our Related UN Target
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities
for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in political, economic and public life
Recent Highlights & Achievements
