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Gender Equality

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Anabela Marisa Azul

    1. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Luciana Brandli

    1. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  4. Amanda Lange Salvia

    1. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  5. Tony Wall

    1. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

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  • Fosters knowledge to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
  • Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
  • Covers many countries, very international

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ENUNSDG)

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Table of contents (118 entries)

  1. Access to Education and Gender Equality

    • Chhabi Kumar, Varun Pandey

  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Women’s Economic Empowerment

    • Fiona Dias

  3. Adolescence Empowerment, Sustainability, and Gender Equality

    • Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Md. Asad Ud-Daula

  4. Adolescent Reproductive Health in South Asia: Issues and Challenges

    • Urmi Nanda Biswas

  5. Affirmative Action Measures and Gender Equality: Review of Evidence, Policies, and Practices

    • Uduak Archibong, Kingsley Udie Utam

  6. Artificial Intelligence, Gender, and Oppression

    • Alison Duncan Kerr

  7. Birth Spacing: Achieving Gender Equality Under Sustainable Development Goals

    • S. M. Haider Rizvi, Arpana N. Tirkey

  8. Career Progression of Women in Reproductive Age Groups in India

    • Dhvani Patel

  9. Child Abuse in Relation to Girls

    • Hiroaki Matsuura

  10. Child Care Services: Possible Solutions to Improve Outcomes

    • Harish Chellani, Tapan Kumar Jena, Aashima Dabas

  11. Child Marriage and Resistance Movements

    • Janice L. H. Nga, Debbie Dyana Jun Jinideh

  12. Child, Early, and Forced Marriage

    • Umesh Chandra Pandey

  13. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    • Fabiana Paes, André Geraldes

  14. Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women (Istanbul Convention) (2014)

    • Ilona Topa, Magdalena Półtorak

  15. Creating and Enhancing Women Empowerment Through the Policing Profession

    • Sajal Roy

  16. Domestic Violence Against Women: Relevance, Reflections, and Public Policies

    • Mércia Gomes Oliveira de Carvalho, Alba Jean Batista Viana

  17. Dowry System: Unequalizing Gender Equality

    • Rajeev Kumar

  18. Early and Child Marriage in India: A Framework to Achieve SDGs

    • Meena Gopal

  19. Ecofeminism

    • Daniela Rosendo, Tânia A. Kuhnen

  20. Emotions, Rationality, and Gender

    • Alison Duncan Kerr
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Keywords

About this book

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.   

The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 5, namely "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls" and contains thedescription of a range of terms, which allow a better understanding and foster knowledget. This SDG is considered by many as a pivotal goal since the significant role of women in achieving sustainable development has always been acknowledged in several official UN declarations. Yet gender disparity is still rampant under various guises in various countries. Women’s rights need to be strongly safeguarded through legislation to ensure equal opportunities. 

Concretely, the defined targets are:

  • End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
  • Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
  • Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
  • Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
  • Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
  • Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
  • Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws 
  • Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
  • Adopt andstrengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

Editorial Board


Katarzyna Cichos, Vijaya Deshmukh, Melissa Haeffner, Sandra Hopkins, Tamara Hunt, Nerise Johnson, Chhabi Kumar, Julia Mambo, Anagha Paul, Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti, Tony Wall


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Editors and Affiliations

  • European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  • HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  • International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

    Tony Wall

About the editors

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender Equality

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Amanda Lange Salvia, Tony Wall

  • Series Title: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70060-1Due: 07 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2523-7403

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-7411

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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