UN Report on Women Empowerment
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Overview
- News in Brief
- Who is preparing the report?
- Major Findings Global Scenario
- India in UN Report on Women Empowerment
- 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
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- 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
- Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI)
- 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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