Towards 2030
Goal 5 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development plan sets out to achieve global gender equality by 2030.
In addition to the 2012 World Bank report, another turning point came in 2015 when the United Nations adopted a 15-year plan to achieve sustainable global development in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
For the first time, one of its goals was specifically devoted to gender equality.
Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5)
Goal 5 of the 2030 Agenda explicitly sets out to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’, and identifies six key priorities:
- Gender rights through legal processes
- Violence against women
- Child marriage
- Female genital cutting
- Burden of unpaid care and domestic work
- Parliamentary representation of women
Each of these areas has targets to monitor progress towards the goal.
Select the image for a PDF version. Source: SDG5, United Nations (2015)©.
Your task
Read more about SDG5 and reflect on what progress has been on this.
Referring to the reported progress of this goal in 2019, what further progress do you think has been achieved since then?
Taking the perspective of either a government or non-government organisation, what more could be done?
Use the comments to present your ideas and don’t forget to extend the conversation by responding to the posts of other learners.
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