UN Report on Women Empowerment
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Overview

1. News in Brief
2. Who is preparing the report?
3. Major Findings Global Scenario
4. India in UN Report on Women Empowerment
5. What are the suggestions in the report?

Why in News ?

Recently, a new global report regarding progress in human development of women and girls was launched at the Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda.

News in Brief

• Leadership roles and decision-making still mostly lie with men and are unavailable to women.
• The first-of-its-kind report that presents a comprehensive analysis of the progress made in human development of women and girls.
• According the facts and figures the findings were disappointing.

Who is preparing the report?

• Jointly created by two UN agencies

  

  • UN Women
  • UN Development Programme

Criteria for UN Report on Women Empowerment

• Bodies collated data from 114 countries and analysed them based on the twin indices of
  1. Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI)
  2. Global Gender Parity Index (GGPI).
• WEI only measures the power and independence of women to make decisions and take advantage of possibilities in life.
• The GGPI assesses women’s standing in relation to men in fundamental areas of human development and highlights inequities between the sexes.

Major Findings Global Scenario

• According to WEI, women are often only given the opportunity to realise 60% of their potential.
• According to the GGPI’s measurements of critical human development parameters, they likewise performed 28% worse than males in these areas.
• They discovered that none of the 114 nations under study had fully empowered women or achieved gender parity.
• 90% of women worldwide reside in nations with low or intermediate levels of women’s empowerment.
• Also lives in low or middle performance in achieving gender parity.
  • In this category, 21 and 26 nations, respectively, have high or very high levels of human development.
• Still mostly reserved for men, leadership positions and decision-making remain inaccessible to women.

India in UN Report on Women Empowerment

• Gender parity and women’s empowerment were both rated as low.
• Regarding human development, it was determined to be in the medium category.

What are the suggestions in the report?

• Health policies:
  • Encourage and encourage long lives for everyone
  • Emphasis on ensuring that everyone has access to sexual and reproductive health care. 
• Education equality:
  • Close skill and education quality disparities, particularly in STEM professions, to empower women and girls in the digital era.
• Work-life balance and family support:
  • Make investments in programmes and policies that address work-life balance.
  • This includes flexible work schedules, maternity leave regulations, and cheap, high-quality daycare.
• Women’s equal participation:
  • Establish goals and plans of action to achieve gender parity in all areas of public life.
  • Repeal any discriminatory laws or rules that prevent women from participating fully.
• Violence against Women:
  • Implement comprehensive steps aimed at preventing violence against women
  • Altering societal norms, and getting rid of discriminatory laws and regulations.

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